Golf at 13th Beach Links

 27th Feb 2023

Breakfast at the golf club resort is enormous, and included in our package. It should provide us with plenty of sustenance to get around the 18 holes this morning.

13th Beach is one of Australia's top courses and the Victorian Open was played here 2 weeks ago, so it is in great condition, and it is tough. I don't think I have seen this many bunkers on a course for a very long time.

It is overcast, there is a bit of drizzly rain and still enough nasties in the air to warrant taking an antihistamine before venturing out on the course. The are two full 18 hole courses here, The Beach Course (the original) and The Creek Course (built some years later). We played the Beach Course, which is the same course the Vic Open was played on.


We both found it hard going, with lack of local knowledge making it a bit hard to work out where to hit to, and anything in a bunker was very problematic. Nevertheless it was another very close match with Carole leading by 2 points after nine holes. I managed to claw back the lead in the back nine to leave us even for the game. So Carole wins the touring championship by one stableford point.

Whilst the course is very busy during the day, and at lunchtime in the clubhouse, it dies at night on the nights we are here. There is no dinner availability and we don't feel like driving into Barwon Heads for dinner, so out comes the emergency cooking gear and we decide to whip something up here on our balcony.


An enjoyable chicken stir fry 

Dinner was a chicken stir fry cooked on our portable butane burner using a cheap fry pan we bought along the way. We had to reorganise the room a bit to make the desk a dinner table and sit on the end of the bed, but we ate well.

Tomorrow we head off to Beechworth for a couple of days before finally heading home.


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