Ashgrove Golf Club

Ashgrove Golf Club opened on 22 April 1939 at The Gap, on land leased from Mark Winstone that had been a dairy farm and market garden. It was the fourteenth club formed in metropolitan Brisbane and the last before the Second World War.

The original nine ran from 115 metres at the sixth to 380 at the seventh. The course is eighteen holes today, 4,899 metres to a par 67, and it is laid out as ten holes and eight rather than nine and nine.

What it asks of you

Ten and eight is an unusual arrangement and it has a practical consequence: the turn does not fall where a player expects, and a round played to a plan built around nine and nine goes wrong in the middle.

A par 67 over 4,899 metres means a card built from short par 4s and par 3s, which puts every scoring chance in the approach and none in the drive. That is a harder examination than it sounds. There is nowhere to make up a shot with length.

The site is hilly Brisbane bushland with a creek through it, and it is on the Brisbane heritage register in part, which constrains what can be changed.

What players say about it

The club is open to visitors and is well known in Brisbane. The points below summarise what recurs. These are other people’s opinions, not ours: we have not played the course, and we name and quote no one.

What comes up in its favor

• Value is the point that comes up most often for a course this close to central Brisbane.
• The bushland setting at The Gap is repeatedly mentioned.
• The short card makes it forgiving for a high handicap and quick to play.
• The club’s welcome is consistently well reported.
• Its history, as the last Brisbane club formed before the war, interests visitors who know it.

What comes up against

• At 4,899 metres to a par 67 it is short, and a good player will find it undemanding off the tee.
• The ten and eight arrangement confuses first-time visitors.
• It is hilly, and walking it in Brisbane summer is hard work.
• Facilities are modest.

Getting there and when to go

The club is at The Gap, about fifteen minutes north west of central Brisbane.

The course plays all year. April to September gives the best of it; Brisbane summers are humid and wet. Tee times are booked in advance.

Green fees

Rates are set by the club. See the club’s own site.

How this page was made

The factual frame comes from public sources: OpenStreetMap for the location, the club’s published history, encyclopaedic entries and the Brisbane heritage register for the 1939 opening, the leased dairy farm and the original nine, and public course records for par, length and the ten and eight arrangement. The opinion section summarises public reviews read in September 2026; we report recurring themes rather than individual voices, and we reproduce no quotations.

We have not played this course, and this page is no substitute for a round. The club has not paid for this page, has not seen it before publication and has no say over its content. If you know the course and something here is wrong or out of date, write to us and we will correct it.