Skipton Golf Club
Goldfields, VIC | User Rating: 
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The course has a good layout with a generous arrangement of pine trees lining each hole. The grass greens are in good condition and are watered from the nearby dams. Fairways are generally layered with a good amount of grass in the picturesque surroundings.
The course relies on an honesty system for players who want to use the course, as the clubhouse in usually unmanned.
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01 Dec 2010
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Measures 2648m Par 34 with three par 3s ranging from 117-220m, five par 4s ranging from 293-352m and the 466m Par 5 straight slightly uphill 9th.
Course is in poor condition with greens slow and ridden with patchy dirt with teebeds and fairways bumpy with dirt/weedy lies. There are no bunkers on the course. Alternate front/back nine tees are located either on the same teebed or within 40m of each other. No surprises.
Holes worthy of mention include: the 293m slight dogleg left 1st with OOB left and a small dam 50m short right of the green, the long 220m Par 3 2nd, the 352m 3rd with OOB fence left of the treeline has a lateral creek hazard across the fairway 100m from the green, the 380m dogleg right 6th/15th is treelined with a 50m wide fairway.
The 117m 7th has a sandscrape green currently in play which is in awful condition.
Played here 21/11/2010 with $10 green fees. Located on Geelong Road (C143) about 30 minutes southwest of Ballarat via the Glenelg Hwy (B160)for a town of around 500 people it is the only grass green course in the area – apart from Lismore which is equally in poor condition.