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Nedlands Golf Club was founded on the Melvista Reserve in 1932 by Cyril Dudley CBE, who was the President for 27 of the first 32 years of the Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The course was constructed using crosscut saws, axes and mattocks to clear the trees from the fairways, and fences were necessary to keep out straying stock. The effort was considerable, but worthwhile. At that time it became the eighth metropolitan golf club formed in Perth, with Royal Perth being the oldest (1895).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Dudley was a prominent local councillor and passionate about the game of golf. At one time or other he was Club Captain, President and Life Member and it is fair to say that without his enthusiasm Nedlands Golf Club would likely not even exist, let alone have become one of Western Australia\u2019s best-loved clubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was only fitting that it was Cyril who drove the first ball at the grand opening of the Club in May 1934. His dream was to have a club to \u201cfoster golf\u201d, where the only qualification you needed was to be \u201ca good bloke\u201d and \u201ca good sportsman\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This ideal is still the cornerstone of the Nedlands Golf Club, whose hospitality and sportsmanship is the envy of many and where, from 1947, the club hosted the Nedlands Masters, continuing a championship tradition that truly lived up to Cyril\u2019s dream of \u201cfostering golf\u201d to many of Australia\u2019s top professionals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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