https://pinhighpress.com/tags/royal-melbourne/ Recent content in Royal Melbourne on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/royal-melbourne-west-course-profile/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/royal-melbourne-west-course-profile/ <p>The Sandbelt, on the south-east side of Melbourne, is the patch of land on which Australian golf was decided. The patch is about eleven miles across, runs in a rough arc from Black Rock down through Cheltenham to Sandringham, and sits on the kind of fine sandy loam that drains the rain from a winter morning faster than the maintenance crew can mop the cart paths. On that patch sit nine courses that, between them, have produced the look and the language that defines a continent&rsquo;s idea of what a golf course should be. The course at the head of the group, by the consensus of the people who have walked all of them and most of the people who have only walked a few, is Royal Melbourne, and the eighteen at Royal Melbourne that does the most of the work is the West.</p>