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Kingston Heath Golf Club is an 18-hole Melbourne Sandbelt course whose present site officially opened for play on 4 April 1925. A. Morcom.
The course initially had no bunkers because of financial constraints and the club's desire to allow the ground to settle. During Alister MacKenzie's 1926 Australian visit, the club commissioned him to prepare a bunkering plan. MacKenzie inspected Kingston Heath on 29 October 1926 and subsequently supplied a plan and report.
The course is an 18-hole sandbelt golf course. Designed by Dan Soutar, the course originally opened in 1925. It is open to members and their guests. On-site facilities include Clubhouse, Practice facilities, Pro shop.
The club's move to its present course produced a Dan Soutar routing constructed by M.A. Morcom. Financial constraints and a decision to let the new ground settle meant the course officially opened on 4 April 1925 without bunkers.
Soutar's routing supplied the underlying structure, while MacKenzie's 1926 work transformed the strategic character through bunkering. The club rejected several of his proposed hole shortenings but accepted the bunker scheme and his redesign of the 15th.
MacKenzie inspected Kingston Heath on 29 October 1926 and later sent the club his advice, plan and report for a £250 fee. His most substantial routing intervention was at the 15th, where the green was moved onto the ridge to create a short par three.
Kingston Heath is internationally associated with Australia's Sandbelt school of architecture and has staged major professional and amateur championships.
The course remains a private members' club and an important championship venue, while retaining the strategic relationship between Soutar's routing and MacKenzie's bunkering.
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