Monmouth Golf Club Monmouth Golf Club Monmouth Golf Club is an 18-hole golf club based just outside Monmouth at Leasbrook Lane, near Dixton. The course is located on high ground to the east of the town with views of the Welsh hills, the Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley. The club claims to be "one of the prettiest golf courses in Wales". The club has a short game practice area and a nine-hole practice putting green. Other facilities include a clubhouse, bar and shop The hole names on the course are: Monmouth Golf Club was formed on 25 June 1896 at a
The Australian Golf Club have a golf course between the years of 1888 and 1895, which has led to debate as to which golf club is the oldest. The club's first golf course was situated in Moore Park, a suburb of Sydney, but due to a new road the course had to be abandoned six years later in 1888. In 1895 a second, eleven-hole course was built in Waverley, which was used until 1898, when the club's lease expired. The course then moved to Botany, Sydney. It was this course that hosted the 1901 Australian Amateur Championship, and the first Australian Open in 1904.