Brisbane Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course in Tennyson Memorial Avenue,
Yeerongpilly, Queensland
Yeerongpilly is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Yeerongpilly had a population of 1,934 people.
Geography
Yeerongpilly is south-west of the Brisbane GPO.
A small section of the north eastern bound ...
in the
City of Brisbane
The City of Brisbane is a local government area (LGA) which comprises the inner portion of the metropolitan area of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia. Its governing body is the Brisbane City Council. Unlike LGAs in the other mainlan ...
,
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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, Australia.
History
The golf course was originally established in
Chelmer with an official opening on Saturday 12 December 1896 by the
Queensland Governor
The governor of Queensland is the representative in the state of Queensland of the monarch of Australia. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia at the national level, the governor performs constitutional and ceremonial funct ...
Lord Lamington
Baron Lamington, of Lamington in the County of Lanark, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1880 for Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, a long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament and old friend of Benjamin Disra ...
. In 1903 the course relocated to its current site, a larger piece of land in Yeerongpilly in 1903.
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1896 establishments in Australia
Sports clubs established in 1896
Sports venues completed in 1896
Golf clubs and courses in Queensland
Sport in Brisbane