Metropolitan Golf Club (10)

The first round of the Golf Race to Bonville series for 2014/5 had a large field heading to Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne's sandbelt.

A very well organised day and great weather, although a breeze kept the temperature down for the 8:00am shotgun start.

 

Rated 10 in the 2012 Golf Digest Top 100, Metropolitan GC is to host the 2014 Australian Masters in November.  The opportunity to play as they prepared the course for the event was too good to miss.

Metropolitan has hosted a number of Australian Opens, the Australian PGA and a number of other professional and amateur events.

A new clubhouse was completed in 2013 that overlooks the 18th green

After a long break between games, my scoring was poor with only a couple of pars coming at the 1st and 3rd (we started on the 4th today).

8th hole

17th hole