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Rich River Golf Club Resort offers some of the best golf in the country! Our two award winning 18 hole champion golf courses have developed over the years to become one of regional Australia's premier golfing venues. The par 72 West Course has traditional tree lined fairways with small tricky greens and takes the serious golfer on a 6,183m journey. The par 72 East Course was redesigned by Peter Thompson in 1998 and features large greens, wide fairways, Thompson signature bunkers and covers 6,131m. Both courses provide outstanding challenges for all players.

 

 

 

 

Tip 1: Make The Club Do The Work


So often, beginners are seen attempting to smash the ball to peices in the hope of increasing the distance of their drive and impressing thier mates. The clubs are designed for different distances, so let your driver do it's thing. A useful golf driving tip here is to concentrate on your swing and the centre of the ball, not the power of your swing.

Trying to hit the ball too hard will result in a slice, an air shot, or even a pulled muscle on your part. Just take your time, get the motion of your swing correct and let the club do what it was made for. Only when you have mastered your swing should you try to hit it harder.

Tip 2: Keep Your Eyes On The Game


The professional golfer's eye line is parallel to the target line. This is a critical alignment to facilitate the club’s correct path approaching impact. If the eyes point to the right of the target, the club will likely come excessively from the inside. If the eyes point to the left, the club will be excessively steep. Matching the eye line to the target line is a great way to get the club on the correct path.

Tip 3: Keep Your Elbow Attached to Your Hip


The correct sequence of motion beginning the downswing creates the proper tilt of the right side. This allows the right arm to bend, creating a powerful position while ensuring an on-plane attack. Keeping the right arm close to the hip encourages the body to drive the arms and club through impact, minimizing the role of the hands during contact.

Tip 4: Keep Your Muscles Supple and Your Grip Soft


Try keeping your hands soft throughout the swing and leaving the club at the top of your backswing for as long as possible. By soft hands, I mean keeping your muscles supple from your elbows through your fingers. Doing this helps promote a quicker, snappier release through impact.

By leaving the club at the top, here’s what I mean:

Once you get your body set at the top of your backswing, keeping your club at the top allows you to begin the downswing not with your hands, but with your larger, more powerful trunk and leg muscles. By driving the downswing with the body and then with the hands, you can achieve some serious lag that’s going to release when your clubhead meets the ball. Stick with these two swing thoughts, and you’ll find that effortless swings are the secret to more distance.

Tip 5: Short Backswing = Longer Drive


By swinging the club too far back, all you're doing is losing width and control.You can get all the power you need from little more than a three-quarter-length backswing, as long as you have a correct wrist hinge and full body turn. With this simple golf driving tip, you will get much more width into your golf swing resulting in more consistent longer drives.

Tip 6: Clear Vision


One golf driving tip is to visualize the shot you want to hit. Feel a smooth swing as you take a couple practice swings and visualize the ball flying to your target. This helps instill confidence and focuses you on execution instead of “what if I top my first tee ball?” Whatever you do don't think about topping off the tee, imagine yourself hitting the ball straight down the fairway and never think to yourself what if. Just feel confident about your shot and it will more than likely come off for you, but you must concentrate!

Tip 7: Aggressive Hip Rotation


 

Tigers hip rotation on the downswing is unmatched on tour. He can do this because of his extreme core rotational strength and flexibility. Even though you may not be as fit as Tiger, you can still try to rotate your hips aggressive on the downswing while trying to create lag behind you with your club. What this does is created a high level of torque in your core, which translates into a MUCH higher clubhead speed and distance.

Tip 8: Tilt Your Spine Away


Tilt Your Spine Away: Another great addition to our golf driving tips is to tilt or angle your spine away from the target. This enables you to sweep up on the ball giving it more loft and distance. The most common position for amateurs is a straight or reverse tilted spine causing you to hit down on it and losing valuable height and distance.

 

 

Non Member Information

We welcome our guests to contact us for more information on how to enjoy our world class 36 hole golf course.
> Learn more about non member bookings here.

Member Information

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Competition Days

Visitors are welcome to participate in competition day golf. Restrictions may apply on Saturdays.
Please contact the Pro Shop on 03 5481 3372 to make a booking during the preceeding 7 days

Ladies
Wednesday, Saturdays (Limited Field) and Sundays (Individual, mixed or medley events)

Men's
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturday and Sundays (Individual, mixed or medley events)
Copies of the current Golf Programme are available to Members from the Proshop. Ordinary Golf Members; if you would like your copy mailed, please contact us.

Reciprocal Clubs

Ordinary Members of the Rich River Golf Club Resort may be entitled to take advantage of our Reciprocal Rights Agreement with various clubs, providing, in most cases, that your place of residence is outside a radius of 85km from that club. All clubs have 50% reciprocal rights except for Federal Golf Club, The Grange and Yowani Country Club Golf Club who have 100% reciprocal rights.

Reciprocal Golf Clubs of the Rich River Golf Club Resort
Bairnsdale Golf Club
Eden Fishermens Rec Club
Mildura Golf Club Sawtell Golf Club
Ballina Golf and Sports Club Federal Golf Club Moree Golf Club
Shoalhaven Heads Golf Club
Blackwood Golf Club Gatton Jubilee Golf Club Moruya Golf Club Tenterfield Golf Club
Bribie Island Golf Club
Gosford Golf Club Moss Vale Golf Club The Grange Golf Club
Bright Golf Club Griffith Golf Club Murray Downs Golf Club The Links-Shell Cove Golf Club
Cardinia Beaconhills Golf Club Heidelberg Golf Club Murwillumbah Golf Club Townsville Golf Club
City Golf Club Inc. Horsham Golf Club
Muswellbrook Golf Club Tuggerah Lakes Golf Club
Claremont Golf Club Indooroopilly Golf Club
Nambucca Heads Golf Club
Tura Beach Golf Club
Cobram Barooga Golf Club Kiama Golf Club
Oceans Shores Country Club
Warrnambool Golf Club 
Croydon Golf Club Kooringal Golf Club
Patterson River Country Club Wauchope Country Club

Curlewis Golf Club

Lakes Entrance Golf Club

Portland Claremount Golf Club

Wentworh Falls Country Club

Cypress Lakes Golf Club Longyard Golf Club Riverside Golf Club Inc. Yarrawonga & Border Golf Club
Darwin Golf Club Magpies Belconnen Golf Club

Rockhampton Golf Club Inc.

Yowani Country Golf Club
Eagle Ridge Golf Club Pambula-Merimbula Golf Club
Rosanna Golf Club Forster Tuncurry Golf Club
Please confirm your intention to visit these reciprocal clubs in advance with the clubs themselves to ensure permission to play is available. Membership identification will be required for presentation at the clubs.

Reciprocal players at Rich River Golf Club Resort are not eligible to enter the Club Championship, Perpetual Events, Monthly Medal, Privilege Cup, Eagles Nest or other special events.
Junior Golf

Rich River Golf Club Resort has an active and successful Junior golf programme. For details please contact the Pro Shop on 03 5481 3372.

Golf Tournaments 2010



Tournament

Date

Entry Form

Mens ProAm

1 February

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Mens Trainees Classic

2-5 February

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Ladies Treasure Day

26 March


Mens Bill Mead Matchplay

19-22 April

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Mens Club Championships

23rd to 24th May


Ladies Club Championships

3rd, 10th and 17th June


WINTER INDULGENCE GOLF TOURNAMENT

30TH JUNE TO 2ND JULY

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Ladies L'Oreal Basket / Bowl

15-16 July


D'Alberto Holden Scramble

3 October


Mixed Annual Tournament
24 - 29 OCTOBER

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Pars & Birdies Dates

SUNDAY 18 JULY                                                CANCELLED DUE TO PENNANT NORMAL COMP DAY WILL RUN AS PER TIME SHEET.
SUNDAY 22 AUGUST                                         4BBB STABLEFORD
SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER                                    BISQUE PAR
SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER                                       A SURPRISE - TBD
SUNDAY 28 NOVEMBER                                    TEAMS 4 STABLEFORD (BEST 3 SCORES COUNT)
SUNDAY 19 DECEMBER                                     CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
                                                                      DRESS IN CHRISTMAS THEME
                                                                      DRAW FOR PARTNERS, 3 CLUBS ONLY.

Book a Game of Golf

For more information, or if you would like to join in any of our golf events please contact the clubhouse on 03 5481 3333.

Golf Honour Boards#
Mens
Ladies
Hole in One 1990 to 2009
B, C and D Championships 1979 to 2009
Hole in One 1990 to 2009
Golf Members 1979 to 2009
Golf Members 1960 to 1971
Dench Four Ball 1967 to 1978

Hole in One Ladies 1980 to 2008

Heat Policy

Extreme Heat Policy
It is the policy of Rich River Golf Club Ltd to ensure safe playing conditions for competition participants in order to minimise the risk of injury, illness or possibly death in circumstances of extreme hot weather.
Purpose
This policy has been introduced to reduce the risk of heat related injury to players and officials involved in Club competitions and events.
Rich River Golf Club recognises that there are potential health risks for players participating in competitions being exposed to extreme heat conditions for long periods of time.
Heat stress is a serious health risk. High intensity exercise in a hot environment, with the associated fluid loss and elevation of body temperature, can lead to dehydration, heat exhaustion and heat stroke (which can be fatal). High humidity significantly increases the likelihood of heat stress. Children are at greater risk than adults and older players may also be at high risk.
Competition organisers have a duty of care to monitor environmental conditions and to take action to minimise the risk of heat stress to players.
Procedure
In circumstances of extreme hot weather and humidity, where the ambient temperature exceeds 40 degrees, play shall be suspended or cancelled at the discretion of the respective Committee or representatives thereof.

If the weather exceeds 40 degrees please contact the pro shop on 5481 3372.