OPEN GOLF DAY at CONCORD GOLF CLUB SYDNEY
Matthew Laverty Corporate Golf & Bullant Sports would like to announce an Open Day at Concord Golf Club on Monday 16th August for $640.00 per team. (wholesale rate provided by the club)
The fee of $640.00 will get you a huge BBQ lunch – golf – and fingerfood after golf. There is NO limit to the amount of teams being able to be booked
The event will be a single stableford.
The only additional costs on the day are beverages, and motorized carts.
The times for the day are
DATE Monday 16th August 2010
LOCATION Concord Golf Club
11.30am Arrival / Lunch
12.30pm Limited Shotgun start
5.30pm Finger food in the clubhouse
Please e-mail me if you would like to book teams for this event.
Regards
Matthew Laverty
Managing Director
Matthew Laverty Corporate Golf Pty. Ltd.
P.O. Box 605 CONCORD 2137
(02) 87573666 / Mobile 0418161199
matthew@lavertygolf.com.au
Member of the Australian PGA
About Concord Golf Club
Established 1899, the Club has hosted a number of championship golf tournaments including the Australian PGA, NSW Open and ANZ Championship.
The Clubhouse offers a warm classic ambience, with timber features and Club traditional and historical decor and furnishings. Major renovations were complete in 2001 at a cost of $2.5 million.
One of the finest and historically famous courses in Australia is Concord Golf Club.
The Sydney Golf Club first met on August 2, 1893 and they held their opening event on October 3 on land owned by Miss (later Dame) Eadith Walker at the corner of The Drive and Concord Road, Concord West.
By the end of 1893 a piece of land was acquired in the Bondi Sandhill’s between Old South Head Road and the ocean and they laid out 9 holes. This was extended to 18 holes, but subsequently located to the west of O’Sullivan Road at its present site.
Both the Concord and Rose Bay courses were used by the Sydney club until 1899 when it was decided to relinquish the Eadith Walker links.
The local members then formed the Concord Golf Club at a meeting held at the home of Dr Tom Frizell sometime between July and September, 1898. David Kirkaldie was elected the first President, Alex Orr the Hon. Secretary and John Muir the Treasurer.
The first match was played on 29th July 1899 against the former Strathfield Golf Club.
The Concord West Course was extended to 14 holes in 1900 with the last four holes played twice to make 18.
1901 was spent increasing the course to 18 holes along the western side of the Great Northern Railway and extended towards Homebush Bay. This was opened in 1902. The Clubhouse was ‘Daisy Cottage’ on George Street, Homebush, just behind the Arnott’s Biscuit Factory. Portion of the course was under lease by the owner to Pitt, Son and Badgery, stock salesmen, as resting paddocks for cattle consigned to the Sale Yards.
At that time, the original Strathfield Golf Club was situated on the Boulevarde near Liverpool Road and with the demand for building sites in the district, their executive met with their counterparts from Concord at Thorpe’s Hotel (the present Strathfield Hotel). They agreed to combine and form the Concord Golf Links Limited with the purpose of purchasing 114 acres, called police Paddock, at 50 pounds per acre from the Estate of the late Thomas Walker. This, with 30 acres leased from Miss Walker on Majors Bay, formed the nucleus of the present Course. By 1907, a new men’s course of 6130 yards and clubhouse as well as a 9 hole course of 2000 yards and a separate clubhouse for the associate members were fully operational.
Many major events have been held here. June 1908, saw the staging of the open Bogey Competition for professionals in NSW. Tom Popplewell won the event with 84 – 5 nett 79, Don Souter won the gross with 80 and Open Bogey was won by Victor East 5 up. Other competitors were Fred Popplewell, Carnegie Clark and Charlie Campbell.
Other competitions include the NSW Close Championship of 1934 won by Vic Richardson, in 1939 by Norman von Nida, in 1949 by Eric Cremin and in 1956 by our own Frank Phillips. The event was changed to the NSW Open Championship in 1958 and was won here again by Frank Phillips in 1966, George Serhan in 1980, Greg Norman in 1983, Ian Stanley in 1985 and Greg Norman again in 1986 and 1988.
The Australian PGA came to Concord in 1991 when the winner was Wayne Grady. In 1992 it was won by Craig Parry and in 1993 by Ian Baker-Finch.
