The Australian Golf Club

or making an albatross in a par five than I had to making a hole in one in a par three.

A little over two years ago, I was heading to the Australian Golf Club for a practice match and was chatting to one of my mates on the phone about how lucky I was to be playing at the Aussie.

As usual, he finished the call with a crack about my ongoing inability to make a hole in one.

Well, less than an hour later, I'm standing on the second hole, playing 198 metres from the tips.

Mackenzie invoices Royal Sydney for 14 different site inspection days and submits a report and plan for the new 1st and 15th holes, as well as greens for several other holes, including the 7th, 11th and 13th.

The Australian Golf Club was charged the same fee of £250 for several site inspections, far fewer than Royal Sydney enjoyed.

But they also got a report and a plan for course alterations.

And we talked about the equivalence of the currency in that day to these times.

That's a good question.

Yeah.

So McKenzie barely rates a mention in the centenary history book of the Australian Golf Club.

And indeed, I was surprised it devoted more paragraphs to the Sloane Morpeth work on the course in the late 1960s than it did to McKenzie's visit in 1926.