The Skipton Golf & Bowls Club was established in 1929 and has a rich a treasured history across both golf and bowls.

The Skipton Golf and Bowls Club, with its recently upgraded facilities, provides an excellent venue to hold your next event or celebration. For more information please follow this link.

For a tour of the golf course scroll down to the bottom of this page.

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Skipton Junior Golf Clinic! School Holiday Fun!

On Monday 28th June, Tony Collier from Golf Australia, and Victoria Kennedy organised a fantastic Golf Day for the students to attend a Golf Clinic at the Skipton Golf Club.

Thank you so much Tory and Tony for your time and expertise, it was wonderful to see so many young enthusiastic golfers learning basic golf skills, whilst others had the opportunity to improve in and enjoy the sport they hadve all come to love.  (We had 24 participants turn up for the day!)

Thank-you to Tony for helping organise the day, and to the Skipton Golf Club (specifically Doug Smith and Michael Sproules) for opening up the clubhouse, cooking the BBQ, and helping with everything we needed (setting up bowls for the children over lunch, table tennis etc.).

Thanks to the families for bringing the children in for the day. We were able to fundraise $228 for the Skipton Golf Club from the BBQ lunch.

Next term, there will be an opportunity to play golf (most likely a 4-5 hole competition) every Monday after school for 4 weeks, starting on Monday 19th July. More details to follow! 

If you are traveling through the area please be sure to go out for 9 or 18 holes (white tees for front 9 and yellow tees for the back). Green fees are a great deal at just $10 for as many holes as you can muster.

Want to try something a bit different?

You can also play Skipton as a "Par 3 Course" - just follow the black and pink tee markers.

Separate Golf Cards have been prepared for the Par 3 Course and if time is short or you want to perfect your shorter game then give it a go.

Perfect for a group with mixed abilities as well as it is not everyone who can get around the longer course with a score that they want to brag about over a chat on the 19th!!

Please read on for more information about each hole.

View from the 1st fairway. Nice spot to be hitting your second shot from.

A great opening hole that can be played in many different ways. Hitting driver can be risky with OOB on the left and large water hazard waiting to catch balls down the right but taking the risk and knocking one straight down the middle can turn it into an easy birdie. Personally, I take the safer route by hitting a mid-iron to the wide fairway and then going from there.

A par here on the opening hole is a good start and then depending on how your round is going you can potentially take a more risky approach and hit driver when you play as the 10th. The shape of this hole is fantastic - visually a great golf hole.

View from beside the 2nd green. A very risk and reward hole.

The two tees here set up for two holes that are polar opposites of each other. The 2nd is not only rated the hardest hole on the course but is also one of the longest Par 3's in the whole area if not the State. A relatively flat hole with a medium sized green where putts tend to roll visually uphill.

The second time around players tee off from just 15 metres behind the 2nd tee box, however, things play easier given it is now a par 4.

Save par here the first time around and target birdie the next time for a great outcome, but the hole has enough defenses to cost you plenty of shots if you aren't striking them well.

View from the 3rd tee with a large fairway ahead. The 12th tee is hidden in the trees to the right.

You may be on a 9 hole course playing the same holes twice but here you will find two very different tee shots. The first time around is a large hitting area for your tee shot to attack with driver leaving a mid-iron into a small and well-protected green, which is defended by mounds on the left and a steep drop off to the right so you need to be accurate if chasing a birdie.

When playing next time you need to navigate a tough shoot to manage your shot through and although it plays shorter than the 3rd the hazard crossing the fairway comes more into play. You will find both times you play this hole that you have plenty of options to play aggressive or safe.

View from behind the 4th green showing the two tee areas in the distance.

The first of the split tee Par 3's both tough holes. On the 4th you will face a slightly uphill tee shot with a mid to long iron with out of bounds down the left. Most shots if landing before the green tend to bounce to the right.

On the back 9 the hole becomes a much longer Par 3 where many rely on hybrid or more to reach the putting surface. The green itself can be very difficult to hole putts if you are pin high or beyond the whole with a significant slope to be faced. Making pars both times around on this hole is a difficult task, but can setup a great round if you can manage it.

View back down the 5th with the 9th green in the distance.

The final hole on what locals call the outside 5, where each hole follows the fence line with out of bounds down the left-hand side. The hole has a split tee, with the 5th tee further back in the trees and the 14th played from the front teeing ground.

The hole itself is a relatively short Par 4 so a great spot to be aggressive, however, too far left or right there is plenty of trouble to be found. Another great green here with some difficult to read breaks.

View from the 6th tee, a great driving hole, be careful of the trees on the right which make things difficult if you hit their way.

A grand old hole with a great dogleg around to the right. Although there is no out of bounds on this or the following three holes there is plenty of tree troubles to be found without a solid tee shot.

If you safely manage your way to the fairway you will be faced with a long second shot to a small green that is defended well. A bogey is ok here on the holes where most people will get a shot anyway but pars here could help you towards a great score.

This is another green with small breaks so make sure you spend some time reading your putts.

View from behind the 7th green which demonstrates the great shaping of the green and the two different tee shots required.

A hole that plays very differently depending on if playing the first or second time around. As the 7th it is a short hole and birdie opportunity that highlights the terrific shaping of the green and mounds. Although short there is plenty of trouble, long and left making a difficult up and down. The green itself is great to putt on as has some good defense as not the easiest to read.

When you get back around to the 16th tee it is a longer hole that brings into play a large gum tree making a shoot to hit through to the well-protected green. A par here on most days is well done.

View from the 8th tee, which shows the hole's dogleg to the right.

A great driving hole with an excellent shaped dogleg to the right opening up to a downhill second shot to a wide but shallow green.

Risk and reward again from the tee with a shot left or right likely to make par difficult but have a go with driver anyway and turn into a real birdie chance. If you should hit your approach shot through the green, you will be faced with a very tricky up and down so best to be short if not on the green. 

Putting here is once again quite deceptive, but basically, every putt on this green, if you have enough speed, will be straight.

View looking back down the long Par 5 9th from the green with the dogleg in the distance.

The only par 5's on the course that doesn't measure as long as those found on other courses, but given the uphill fairway doglegging to the left plays relatively tough. 

A strong and straight tee shot here is vital given the trouble that can be found in the large trees down both sides.

Most of the locals will play this as a true three long shots hole, but if you are long enough from the tee getting close to the green or even on is possible for a shot at eagles and birdies (an Albatross has even occurred here many years ago).

Once on the green most putts break a little more than you think and can be more uphill too so speed is important.

A great closing hole to a diverse and very well designed course now in its 90th year.