Our History


Since its founding in 1924, Palm Beach Golf Club has been a staple of Palm Beach for locals and visitors alike.
Situated near the tip of the Barrenjoey Peninsula about 40 kilometres north of the city of Sydney, our club resides within the heart of Palm Beach.
Today the club currently consists of 500 members.

Many golf clubs in Australia and for that matter many overseas, have links built on spectacular sites, but Palm Beach can justly claim that its course enjoys one of the most beautiful setting of any course in the world.  The western boundary is a beach running beside Pittwater, where windsurfers compete with seaplanes landing on its comparatively sheltered waters. The sand dunes of Governor Phillip Park beside the Pacific Ocean lie to the east. To the north an historic lighthouse looks down from Barrenjoey Headland. After a game of golf, members and visitors can enjoy a glass or two and a superb meal, while they sit out on the first-floor balcony of the club house across Beach Road to the south. With glass in hand, looking out towards Pittwater over the palms, pines, paperbarks and other trees that dot the course, most members agree that life doesn’t get much better than this.

 This par 64, 4240-metre course has given many good golfers a basic lesson in course management, a fact that is further attested to with its revised layout record of 59. Like most courses, Palm Beach has its’ ‘Signature Hole’. At its south-east corner the Number 2, Par 3 can tell some terrible tales. 

Life Members:

1934

G. Hitchcock

1974

R. Trevor

1938

S.B. Hooper

1979

A. Berry Snr

1940

A.A. Oxlade

1987

R. Warner

1957

A. Bowman

1992

R. Brightwell

1957

P. Cavill

1995

C. Gates

1957

R. Gassman

1997

Mrs J. Palmer

1957

D. Hodgins

1997

Mrs S. Toms

1962

G. Kidd

1999

K. Cush

1962

R. Copp

2000

W. O’Brien

1962

W. Chapman

2009

A. Berry Jnr

1964

J. Lewis

2011

Mrs J. Warner

1964

R. Richardson

2013

M. Walker

1969

L. Gosper

2013

R. Head

1970

Mrs T. Hopewell

2014

J. Kerr

1970

L. Uren

2021

M. Houlder

1972

R. Broomhead

2023

G. Marles


Presidents:

1924 – 1926

C. R. Crossman

1974

W. Johnston

1927 – 1932

S. H. Hammond

1975 – 1976

K. Cush

1933 – 1936

E. R. Moser

1977

A. Roebuck

1937 – 1939

A. A. Oxlade

1978

D. McLeod

1940

J. W. Hayes

1979 – 1983

W. Johnston

1941 – 1942

A. Bowman

1984 – 1995

R. Brightwell

1943 – 1946

C. Kemmis

1996

C. Shaw

1947 – 1948

A. Bowman

1997

M. Walker

1949

C. Kemmis

1998 – 2000

A. Burgess

1950 – 1952

P. Cavill

2001 – 2004

G. Marles

1953 – 1955

R. Gassman

2005 – 2006

W. Burgess

1956 – 1958

R. A. Copp

2007

C. Abercrombie

1959 – 1960

G. Kidd

2008 – 2011

R. Head

1961 – 1962

J. Lewis

2012 – 2013

M. Blake

1963 – 1965

A. P. Lewis

2014 – 2016

J. Kerr

1966 – 1970

R. Broomhead

2017 – 2018

S. Misdale

1971 – 1973

A. Berry Snr

2019 – 2023

D. Hill


Captains:

1936 – 1939

A. Staveley

1974

A. Roebuck

1940

D. Fullerton

1975

G. Parsonage

1941

D. Hodges

1976 – 1979

R. Brightwell

1942

H. G. Harris

1980

J. Simpson

1943 – 1944

H. J. Bentley

1981 – 1983

K. McKeown

1945 – 1948

D. Hodgins

1984 – 1985

W. O’Brien

1949

J. Rigney/R. Doolin

1986 – 1987

A. Simpson

1950 – 1951

D. Hodgins

1988

K. McKeown

1952

F. Reynolds

1989

D. Hatch

1953

S. Dinsmore/T. Fouracre

1990

J. Kerr

1954

W. Milne

1991

K. McKeown

1955

W. Milne/ R. Thomas/ R. Whiting

1992 – 1993

C. Gates

1956

R. Whiting/ J. Fraser

1994 – 1996

G. Baillie

1957 – 1958

W. R. Milne

1997 – 2003

M. Houlder

1959

G. Retford/ L. Hutton

2004 – 2005

G. Baillie

1960

L. Hutton

2006

K. Neilsen

1961

R. Trevor

2007

J. Kerr

1962

A. Lewis

2008 – 2009

R. Head (Mrs)

1963 – 1967

R. Richardson

2010 – 2011

J. Stuart

1968 – 1970

R. Workman

2012 – 2016

K. Dennis

1971 – 1972

R. Clark

2017 – 2018

J. McLean

1973

E. D’Arcy

2019 – 2023

J. Zieren

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