The course & your visit
The Grange: twice the experience, once the swamp
The Grange’s motto is ‘Twice The Experience’, and it is literal: two eighteen-hole championship courses, East and West, on White Sands Drive at Grange by the coast. Founded in 1926 — the club is celebrating its centenary through 2026 — it has hosted the 2019 Women’s Australian Open and now hosts LIV Golf Adelaide on a composite championship layout. Visitors are welcome through a structured reciprocal and request system.
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East and West
The club presents the dual-course setup as its rare luxury: two full championship layouts on one property, with the LIV Golf Adelaide composite borrowing across both on select dates. The site’s East and West course pages are interactive hole maps rather than written guides, so there is no published hole-by-hole prose to lean on — the distinction that matters for a visitor is which course, or combination, the day’s booking covers.
The West is the original ground, the East the 1967 Morcom addition that carried the club’s first major tournament win — that story belongs to the history below. Between them the club also runs a gym, physio, massage, junior and Chip & Sip clinics, and a full hospitality calendar of weddings, conferences and corporate days.
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Playing the LIV course
The club sells dated ‘Play the Championship Course’ experiences across March, April, May and November: an exclusive tee time on the LIV Golf Adelaide layout, an immersive tour of tournament moments at the Watering Hole and Ripper Point, and an official club gift. The experience runs outside tournament timings, so the event infrastructure is not in place — the fairways are the same, the grandstands are not.
LIV Golf Adelaide’s 2027 tournament week is itself published, running Monday 15 to Monday 22 March with a mix of tee times and shotgun starts. Experience enquiries go to the golf operations team.
From jam tins to Norman’s 64
The land was reclaimed swamp — snakes and mosquitoes, deemed unfit for farming — where the McCoy family first knocked balls at jam tins in 1910 on ground that is now the West’s 1st, 2nd, 10th and 18th, yachting on a lake where the car park stands today. After soldier settlers failed on the sandy soil, 120 acres came up for lease in 1926 and local golfers met at Kirkcaldy’s Institute Hall to form the club. Play began in 1927 on thirteen rough holes, the greens too immature for cups — twelve-inch iron rings were pressed in instead.
Vern Morcom redesigned the course in the mid-1950s, then designed the East, which opened in May 1967 funded by new-member debentures that also built the current clubhouse. The East’s fame was sealed in October 1976 when a 21-year-old Greg Norman, playing six years, shot 64 to win the West Lakes Classic — his first major tournament win — hours after John Clifford’s 67 had set a mark that lasted an afternoon. Wayne Grady took the same title in 1978, and Stuart Appleby’s first 72-hole win came at the 1992 Australian Junior on the East.
Sources: Grange — history
Visiting a dual-course private club
Tee times are requested through a five-step form covering residency, GolfLink numbers and reciprocal status. Twenty-five Australian reciprocal clubs are named plus an overseas option, with reciprocal players needing comparable home-club rights and letters of introduction. Guest windows vary by day — Sunday afternoons, Monday from 9am, Tuesday from 1pm outside the women’s morning competition, Wednesday from 2pm, Thursday and Friday from 10:30am, and Saturdays only at the end of the field if the members’ sheet allows — with guest-number limits per day.
Hire clubs and motorised carts are available subject to availability, and dress, privacy and cancellation policies apply. Golf bookings run through (08) 8355 7111 with the clubhouse on (08) 8355 7100.
Sources: Grange — visitors
Researched from the published sources linked above.