Royal National Park Royal National Park The Royal National Park is a protected national park that is located in Sutherland Shire in the Australian state of New South Wales, just south of Sydney. The national park is about south of the Sydney central business district near the localities of , , and . It was the third national park in the world (after Yellowstone and Mackinac in the United States). It was founded by Sir John Robertson, Acting Premier of New South Wales,<ref name="environment.gov.au/ahdb/place_id=105893"></ref> and formally proclaimed on 26 April 1879. Its original name was "National Park", but it was renamed in 1955
Mungo Park Jr. Jr. learned golf from childhood. Park Sr. won three more Open Championships. His uncle also Mungo Park Sr, younger brother of Willie Park Sr., also won the Open in 1874. His brother Willie Park Jr was also an Open champion (1887 and 1889) At age 19, in 1897, he went to New York, sailing on the RMS "Teutonic", to open a branch of his brother's business but this only lasted one, or at most two, years as Mungo was advertising for a professional's position for 1898. During his time in New York, he laid out the nine hole Dutchess Golf