Melaleuca Links
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| REGION: Phillip Island & Gippsland, VIC
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Name: Melaleuca Links
- Region: Phillip Island & Gippsland,VIC
- Address:
5775 Bass Highway
Inverloch, 3996, Victoria, Australia - General: (03) 5674 3722
- Holes: 0
- Metres: 0m
- Par: 0
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1. rsheehy | Rated
| 15 Jan 2005
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After reading ttitheridge's comments about this little 9 holer, I made a mental note to try it out next time I was down that way and that happened today.
Melaleuca Links is a 9 hole par 3 course with most holes around 60-70m except for the 8th which is maybe 100m. Strangely the card says in most cases the holes are longer than I think they are.
Sounds pretty ordinary so far doesn't it?
Not so fast! First to introduce the general scene. It's a property perhaps 200m by 200m with a couple of ponds big enough to float a boat, and there is in fact a boat in the bigger pond. The lake is shaped a bit like a jigsaw puzzle piece and you play largely around the outside of it. Small but pleasing undulations abound. Several of the holes are isolated by thick stands of Melaleuca and you can't even see the rest of the course from holes 1 or 6. The overall effect is like a well kept public park.
We step onto the first tee. An innocent little 70m hole except for the pond at the front and left side of the green. The greens being perhaps 10m in diameter meaning that the water is perhaps 10m from the pin.
The second has water behind the green, again about 10m from the pin. Ditto on the third, except it is maybe only 7m from the pin. The fourth plays over the water, as does the fifth.
Six through nine are away from the lake, but each is in a nice setting.
Ok, so it's a pleasant place where we get to play a bunch of half wedge shots to greens just big enough to be reasonable for the length of the shot.
Wait. It get's better... The turf is in unbelievably good condition. It's in the same class as the Melbourne sand belt. The greens are quick and true, but with that weird country grain that I can never read.
Apart from the course, there's even a nice undulating practice putting green. Boy, do I wish I had this course in my back yard! If you're ever down Inverloch way, drop in and pay your $9 for 9 holes.
The owners built it five years ago. They are so proud of it and I really hope it is a money maker for them. It's a gem.