Geelong Golf Club

The Geelong Golf Club is a defunct golf club founded in 1892 and was the oldest in the state of Victoria, Australia. [cite web
url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/12/1089484303928.html
title=Historic golf club may be set to sink
work=The Age
date=July 13, 2004
publisher=www.theage.com.au
accessdate=2008-06-08] It was located in the northern Geelong suburb of North Geelong and maintained a 18 hole course bounded by Ballarat Road and bisected by Thompson Road.

The club ran into financial difficulties, $250,000 in 2001 and management of the club was taken over by PGA Links on February 18, 2002. Within 18 months, the sister company of PGA Links, Links Group had bought the Geelong Golf Club outright for $3.1 million. The convert|146|acre|ha in the middle of Geelong was then valued at up to $18 million. [cite web
url=http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/vic/content/2003/s1135345.htm
work=Stateline Victoria
title=Geelong Golf Club's controversial development plan
date=June 18, 2004
publisher=www.abc.net.au
accessdate=2008-06-08] The Links Group hoped to build 200 houses and a new nine-hole course on the site, closed the course in July 2004 when the City of Greater Geelong denied planning permission for the scheme. [cite web
url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/16/1089694559927.html?from=storyrhs
title=The final round as developers KO a golf club
date=July 17, 2004
work=The Age
publisher=www.theage.com.au
accessdate=2008-06-08] A revised plan was put on public display in May 2005, [cite web
url=http://www.geelongcity.vic.gov.au/Media_Releases/May_2005/Latest_development_propsal_for_Geelong_Golf_Course/
title=Latest development propsal for Geelong Golf Course
work=City of Greater Geelong Media Release
date=May 24, 2005
publisher=www.geelongcity.vic.gov.au
accessdate=2008-06-08] and referred to an independent panel in November the same year. [cite web
url=http://www.geelongcity.vic.gov.au/Media_Releases/November_2005/Geelong_Golf_Course_Proposal_to_be_reffered_to_an_independent_panel/
title=Geelong Golf Course Proposal to be referred to an independent panel
publisher=www.geelongcity.vic.gov.au
work=City of Greater Geelong Media Release
date=November 22, 2005
accessdate=2008-06-08] The site was then put up for sale, before being taken off the market in May 2008. [cite web
url=http://www.senews.com.au/story/58690
title=Golf course off market Links dumps bid to sell site
author=Andrew Mathieson
work=Geelong Independent
date=May 16, 2008
publisher=www.senews.com.au
accessdate=2008-06-08] with the site now value at between $20 million and $25 million. [cite web
url=http://www.realestatesource.com.au/Victoria/LinksLiving-Says-it-Won-t-Sell-Geelong-Golf-Course.html
title=LinksLiving Says it Won't Sell Geelong Golf Course
publisher=www.realestatesource.com.au
date=May 2008
accessdate=2008-06-08] The site remains unoccupied as of 2008.

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