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ROYAL ADELAIDE GOLF CLUB SEATON SOUTH AUSTRALIA

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Royal Adelaide is one of this country’s finest courses and has been for nearly 100 years.

When discussed alongside other great Australian courses born in the same era and influenced by the same architect, Dr Alister MacKenzie, Royal Adelaide is set aside as a very different layout.

Unlike Royal Melbourne, for example, Royal Adelaide didn’t have the genius of course builder Mick Morcom bringing MacKenzie’s drawings to life. In Sydney, the New South Wales course had dramatic terrain by the sea. A no brainer for world class golf.

So, what makes Royal Adelaide, located in suburban Seaton and cut in two by the Adelaide to Glenelg rail line, so special?

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