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Burnley Golf Club For golfers of all standards in Melbourne's inner east...
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Last updated: 29th August 2010
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Cnr Madden Lane and Loyola Crs
Burnley, Victoria, 3121
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Scorecards
With the new greens and change in length of the seventh hole, the indexes have been recalculated. However, official cards have not been printed up yet as the old card stock is run down. However, we have created our own that can be downloaded until the offiical cards are available. The standard card is designed for stroke, stablefor, par etc. The Matchplay card uses the standard matchplay index distribution (first hole easiest, eighth hole hardest, etc...).
Stroke Play Card The course
Click on the hole above to get the description
The course guide has now been updated to take into account the changes to the course that were undertaken in late 2008 however the picture above still shows the old layout, though no siginficant changes in routing have occurred. Distances are from the Blue tees to the front of the greens.
Hole 1 / 10 Par 4, 284m
The nets on the left side of the fairway obscure part of the green forcing most players out to the right to avoid them. If you do tangle with them and you are lucky they will push a wayward drive back onto the fairway. A slightly sloped green with a bit of challenge if the pin is set near the back left. The fariway narrows significantly at the end of the last fence before turning left so longer hitters need to be careful in avoiding the nets they don't put it into the trees.
A straight hole with nasty trees and OOB to the left. If you hook badly your ball will be catching the train to Flinders St! A bunker has been added to the front left courner of the green and the new green now has two two tiers. The lower tier results in the flag nearly always being behind the bunker at the front. In either case the best play is to go down the right side of the fairway and take the bunker out of play on the second shot. Addiitonally, if the flag is on the lower tier then the ridge up can be used as a backstop.
The longest hole on the course doglegs gently to the right. OOB on the left again if you hit your tee shot very poorly. If you can place your drive near the big tree trunk then you are well set up for the approach to the green. A ridge to the right of the green helps keep any slightly off line shots on the green, if you go left then there's a bunker waiting... The green is one of the firmer ones and there is a gentle ridge that runs diagionally accross the green from right to left, back to front. Pin placements on the ridge are tricky to putt to as if you miss by only a bit the ball can take off again...
One of the more challenging holes. Forgiving fairway with only a fairway bunker on the right to worry long hitters. However, a raised front on the right side of the green will play havoc with any short approaches. When getting onto the green from below it is also very easy to put the ball through the green resulting being stuck in longish rough at the back or even worse up against the boundary fence (no relief!). The green itself is very flat and has been holding a lot of water recently making it very soft. This is good as when it drys out it's a nightmare to hold the green with any kind of high shot...
Be warned: it's tempting to cut the dogleg by hitting it over or under the big gum tree on the left. If you go high you are really going to have to wallop it or it will drop like a stone. If you go low you need to hit it well as the sand rough can easily catch or slow the ball. Either way if you end up on the left side of the fairway or rough there is a large tree obscuring the approach to the green that is not visible from the tee.Better to go centre down to the faiway and give yourself a clear approach to the raised green. A nasty bunker to the right of the green has ruined many members rounds as inevitably, in getting the ball out of the bunker, it has rolled off the other side of the green.
A simple straight Par 3. The rough off the back of the green is usually very long and can be difficult to play out of if you go through the green, if you can find your ball! The green is has a bowl in the centre so if you go high it will be caught by the rasied back. On the left there are a couple of humps that can cause a ball to careen off to the left, so aim for the centre...
This used to be the hardest hole on the course and you can still see the old green in the background off the tee. Now a medium par three at 150m the green on this hole is significantly titled from right to left with a narrow opening to the green guarded by a bunker on the left. The fairway has a downhill slope to the left so rolling balls tend to go towards the bunker to the left of the green. In trying to keep right many balls end up caught up on the ledge to the right of the green leaving an almost impossible downhill chip. Even though it has been shortened, it's still not easy.
After a hard hole, the easiest hole. At 220m from the back tees most are capable of getting to the green in one on a good day, if you can hit it straight! The slight downhill tilt of the fairway to the right helps avoid the fairway bunker on the left and any hard low runing shots are likely to skip through the bunker. Even if you are caught, it is not a particulatily difficult bunker to get out of. A large tree to the front right and a bunker to the back left can make the approach a little tricky. Finally, the green has a step slope on the front and front pin positions can be tricky to putt to but compared to hole 7 not as bad.
The last hole offers another longish par 3. The challenge is to clear the two fairway bunkers at about 160m down the fairway and not spear your ball through the green just behind them. For the conservative, play to the right and then up and down for par as going to the left may put you in a tee trees close to the left edge of the green. this is one of the older greens and retains moisture most of the year so expect to have a slow putt.
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