Moore Park Golf Club’s vice-president has seen the battle to survive as an 18-hole entity unfold from the inside and outside.
It was the unlosable war that golf in this country somehow contrived to lose.
The NSW Government has confirmed Moore Park Golf Course will be reduced from 18 holes to a reconfigured 12-hole layout from July 1, marking a significant shift in one of Sydney’s most contentious golf and public-space debates.
Uncertainty remains over contamination testing at Sydney’s Moore Park Golf Course, with the NSW Government yet to release results from soil investigations conducted at the site earlier this year.
A report the government tried to keep hidden, uncovered by The Daily Telegraph, shows the state was warned that carving up Moore Park could cost taxpayers almost $250 million and carry what consultants described as “significant financial risk”.
The long-awaited draft plans, which the government will release for public feedback today, include a reconfigured nine-hole golf course and an expanded 90-bay driving range at Moore Park South.
Chris Minns’ NSW government has allocated $50m in the budget to halve Moore Park Golf Club to nine holes as part of its controversial plan offer a new public park.
The future of Sydney’s Moore Park Golf Course has ignited renewed scrutiny after internal government documents, cited by The Daily Telegraph, revealed the NSW Government announced plans to halve the layout before key financial impacts were finalised.
The NSW Government’s controversial plan to scrap nine holes from Moore Park Golf Club has become a hot topic in the Australian federal election after the Coalition pledged $1 million to back an alternative proposal aimed at maintaining an 18-hole layout.
High visitor numbers at Sydney’s Centennial Parklands – used to justify carving up half of Moore Park Golf Course for more parks in the city’s CBD – have been “inflated” by the New South Wales Government, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph.
The battle to save Sydney’s historic Moore Park Golf Course has taken a sinister turn, with government agency Greater Sydney Parklands (GSP) accused of using Big Brother-style tactics to silence campaigners rallying against plans to slash the course in half.
NSW premier Chris Minns’ government was cautioned in 2024 that its controversial plan to scrap nine holes from Sydney’s Moore Park Golf Course could come with a big price tag given “significant capital investment” was required.
Sydney golf fans have hit out at the NSW government’s move to pay nearly $1 million in consultancy fees for design plans to scrap nine holes from the beloved Moore Park Golf Course for conversion to open public space.
The proposal features three kilometres of running, walking and cycling paths, adventure and nature playgrounds, a footy field, skate park, BMX track, fitness trail and dog park with a reduced 18-hole public golf course and high-tech driving range.
City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore allegedly lobbied Premier Chris Minns just three months before the government’s announcement to seize up to 20 hectares of Moore Park Golf Course for a new public park, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph.
Moore Park hosts 91,000 rounds per year as part of 500,000 annual visitors across the golf course and driving range.
LIV Golf chief executive Greg Norman has weighed into the NSW Government’s decision to reduce Moore Park Golf course from 18 to nine holes, labelling the decision as “disappointing”.
Here’s a measured take – no, really – on an unfortunate situation that’s being made even more unfortunate by the wild misinformation and political point scoring engulfing it.
Martin Slumbers arrived in Australia last weekend with the goal of growing the game and instead found golf to be under attack.
Golf appears to have won a battle in the war over Moore Park, the inner-Sydney public course that has come under threat.