Wagga Wagga Golf Club
The Riverina, NSW | User Rating: 
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Wagga Wagga Golf Club is in the top 5 oldest Golf Courses in NSW. It was repositioned in 1982 to the present site just West of the City. It is a true test of at 6209m and our greens are the best in the region. The Club is very friendly with competition and Social Golf available seven days a week. The professional Brett Bischard is the only AAA rated professional in the region and he along with his staff can provide all the necessary items to enjoy your game.
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10 Sep 2011
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Time for an update…the Wagga City Golf Club (WCGC) measures 6117m Par 72 with four par 3s ranging from 143-175m, ten par 4s ranging from 293-392m and four par 5s ranging from 464-548m.
The course layout has short-medium sized tree-lined wide kikuyu fairways which are equally lush in areas and patchy and dry in other places. The bent grass greens are smooth, with good roll but not overly quick. The rough has patches of rye grass mixed with kikuyu grass which takes time getting used to the feel off the club. The teebeds are mostly kikuyu grass with a few couch grass teebeds thrown in for a good look.
There are kangaroos on the course which is odd for any city golf course. Another odd point is that there are only 11 bunkers on the course, but what was even stranger, is that most of the front nine bunkers were larger than greens they were guarding!
Highlights include: the opening 548m slight downhill 1st (index 9) which gently turns 15 degrees to the left from 400m off the tee to a green guarded by a huge bunker 10m short right; the 344m straight 4th (index 7) with a flat and lush couch teebed to a slightly left-sloping fairway with a 2-tier front-sloping green guarded by 2 bunkers; the 390m slightly uphill straight 8th (index 1) with a left-sloping fairway and 30m long front-sloping bunkerless green which for the hardest hole was in poor condition with many dead patches; and the 468m slightly uphill 17th (index 8) which doglegs right from 220m off the tee with a pond on the dogleg corner with 2 bunkers 15-40m short right of the green to avoid on your approach.
The signature hole at WCGC is the 175m slightly downhill 9th (index 5) which seems at odds with the rest of the course from its flat and large couch teebed to its green guarded by a deep bunker short right and another bunker 40m short right with its couch surrounds and a bern 2m from the leftside edge of the green running along the entire leftside and over the back. Lovely golf hole, as nothing else at WCGC resembles the planning taken on this hole.
There is a spare hole, behind the 8th green and beside the 9th, the 119m slightly downhill 20th with a bunkerless green which is good for any course to have if a hole has to be closed.
I found the front nine the most challenging part of the course with its 8 bunkers in total, more options off the tee, undulating fairways and a better variety of holes. Despite the 17th and the 167m uphill 18th finish, the back nine is generally quite weak.
Wagga is the largest city in the Riverina with over 50000 people with about 62000 people including the local government area’s smaller towns and villages. Wagga is about 4.5 hours from Sydney but 130km (or around 1.5 hours) north of Albury.
The course is accessed from Bagley Drive about 7km west of the CBD along the Sturt Highway turning right into McNickle Road then taking a sharp left into Bagley Drive. The course sits, slightly higher than the CBD, at approximately 180-220m above sea level.
Played here 5th September 2011 with social green fees now $25. The greens at WCGC are generally better than Wagga Wagga Country Club (WWCC), but the layout at WWCC is superior than WCGC.
Having played all grass green courses in Riverina, this layout does not stand out as it should for a major city. Decide for yourself and call the proshop on (02) 6931 6275 to arrange a game.