The Great Western Highway is one of Australia’s most historic roads and a key east-west connection out of Sydney. Over the last century it has been progressively upgraded to make it safer and more reliable. The trail today and the one your parents took when they drove you up to have a look at The Sisters in the dead of winter when you were 11 years old are vastly different, which is good news for you and your golf mates.
Only a 25-minute drive from Penrith sits the village of Springwood in an area travelled through by early European explorers who were trying to get their heads around the vast Blue Mountains landscape. They used to camp by a spring surrounded by towering Blue Gums in an area known to the local Darug people as Oryang-Ora. Later renamed Springwood, it became popular amongst wealthy landowners, including Sir Henry Parkes and later the controversial artist Norman Lindsay.
It is here you’ll find , a wonderful 18-hole course in the lower mountains “above the smog and below the fog” as they like to say. Established in 1905, the layout carries an ACR rating of 70 (Par 69)
