Mackenzie & Ebert Appointed To Advise New South Wales Golf Club, Sydney
New South Wales Golf Club in Sydney, Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of United Kingdom based golf course architects, Mackenzie & Ebert to produce a Masterplan for the improvement of its renowned course.
Said Club President, Chris Coudounaris: “Mackenzie & Ebert have a well-established reputation for successfully and sympathetically upgrading courses of all types, particularly windy seaside courses like ours, and including the likes of Turnberry, Royal Portrush, Royal Dornoch, and Royal St Georges.
The Club was impressed by their initial response to the brief, which had been developed with input from the membership, and we felt that Tom Mackenzie and Martin Ebert were the right fit to help us to maximise the potential of the exceptional property on which our course is located”
It is an incredible property and the course is already very highly regarded, but there is so much opportunity for improvement. Our shared priorities, in accordance with the brief, are to make the course even more interesting, fairer and playable for the members and, at the same time, more varied, strategic and challenging for the best players. The overall intention is to produce a course which remains demanding, but which is also enjoyable to play in whatever the conditions experienced.
This is an amazing opportunity for Mackenzie & Ebert to work in Australia for the first time, especially on another world renowned golf course.“
The course at New South Wales Golf Club dates back to 1926 when Alister MacKenzie visited and was commissioned to lay out the holes on land, which he likened to Cypress Point, a course he had just designed and was under construction at the time.
Some of the original layout at New South Wales Golf Club was required to change as a result of land loss during World War 2. Since then, different aspects of the course have been rebuilt by various course architects leaving, from a purist point of view, an inconsistent architectural theme across the course. Besides improvement to the strategy, playability and aesthetics, the focal point of the renovation is to have all 18 green complexes designed by one architect, and built in one summer season.
Tom Mackenzie and Martin Ebert will visit New South Wales Golf Club in early 2023 to progress the masterplan and it is anticipated that the renovation will commence in the summer of 2024.
