Toongabbie Golf Club

13/03/2026

Hey everyone, our volunteers have put in a big week and the grass is back under control!! For that once or twice that you might get a bad bounce and miss the fairway, you should still have a good lie in the rough!!

07/03/2026

Golfers. If you’re planning to have a round this long weekend, please be aware that we have had some mowers and volunteers out of action over the last week.

As a result, there is a bit of long grass to negotiate in places. The back 9 is the longest. The front 9 fairways and second cut areas have been done.

The weather has also led to the greens going berserk. Although they were cut on Friday, they are a bit slower than we would like.

It’s still good fun out there, but it might just pay to watch your shots until the ball actually stops.

16/01/2026

Saturday Jan17. The course is very wet today. We had 30mm of rain overnight after 12mm yesterday. There are puddles and slush all over the course.

Might be wise to not play today

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06/01/2026

Happy New Year everyone.

Some of our small band of volunteers have had a little break over the last couple of weeks so there has been some longer grass on some parts of the course. And then we had a pretty amazing downpour last Saturday with more than 50mm of rain falling in less than 2 hours. While the course relished the drink, the grass has taken really taken off.

But despite the heat we’re expecting over the next few days, we will have people doing some mowing and should have everything in good condition very soon.

Some news for the coming week or so. We are about to remodel and resurface the 3rd green with work starting next week. There will be a temporary green in play for quite a while.

Kennards Hire in Morwell have kindly agreed to donate the use of and delivery of an excavator to allow us to get the heavy work done and we are very grateful to them.

And Latrobe City has provided a grant to allow the purchase of the sand and turf for the resurfacing.

For a small club such as ours, such support is extremely important in helping us to maintain and improve the course, which is a valuable community asset.

Our sincere thanks to Latrobe City and Kennards Hire.

10/12/2025

Members. This Sunday we will be having our end of year presentation day and a fun social round of golf. As always, Danny and Helena are sponsoring the day and it should be a fun day. We don’t have many days like this and it is a great chance for people to get together and to help build the social side of our club.

If you would like to play in the comp, please let Al or Leanne know before the weekend to help them organise who will be playing with who. It will be a 9am for 9.30 start, followed by a lunch and then our presentations in the afternoon.

Especially for new members or those we might not have seen for a while, it will be a great chance to catch up or get to know people and have a bit of a hit, a feed and some fun.

Hopefully you can make it!!

08/12/2025

Golfers, our greens were cored and sanded today. They will be a little rough for a week or two, but will be much better for it as we go through the summer.

Also, at some time soon we will be remodelling and resurfacing the 3rd green, which means that for a fair while there will be a temporary green in play. A little bit of short term pain for what should be a major improvement.

We’re doing our best to make sure the course is as good as it can be.

14/11/2025

A person sent a message to the club complaining about the number of times the course is closed for events and saying that for a club that needs more members it is not wise to exclude ‘young regulars’ from playing. There might be other people thinking along the same lines, so it might be worth explaining why there are a few days a year when we do close the course to green fee players.

We are a very small club and the course is maintained solely by members who are volunteers. But even without wage costs, maintaining a golf course is an expensive business. Obviously, green fees represent a significant percentage of our annual income and the club would not survive without them, but they alone are nowhere near enough to allow us to maintain the course, let alone improve it as we have been doing.

All the clubs in our region close their courses to green fee players when holding major events. These events usually involve players from other clubs visiting or are large social days for members. These events are very important money earners for the clubs, bringing in much more income than the amount of foregone green fees. These events are also important in maintaining connections between the clubs, helping all to continue to exist and they are also very important in maintaining the social bonds within the club. It is these bonds that hold everything together. Without them the club - and hence the course - would likely not continue to exist.

For a small club such as ours, such events are vital in helping us meet the costs of maintaining the course. I would say that our course is closed to green fee players on 2 or 3 Saturdays a year and probably only 3 or 4 Sundays at the very most.

It certainly isn’t very often; it is never for the whole day; and with the exception of this weekend it is never for both days of the weekend.

As the person pointed out, it is certainly true that we need ‘younger regulars’ playing. But it’s not just green fee players that we need: we really do need younger people to become members and get involved in the club’s events and eventually to take over running the club. If that doesn’t happen, the “artefacts” that the person said need to move over will slowly die off and the club and the course will cease to exist.

That would be a shame, because for over 40 years, club members have created and maintained what has become a valuable community asset.

We hope that explains and that everyone understands why we close the course on a handful of days each year.

13/11/2025

Golfers, Toongabbie Golf Club’s annual tournament is on this week end. We have events on each of Friday, Saturday and Sunday and so Green Fee play will be curbed.

On each day there will be a large number of players on the course and so there will be no Green Fee play available until after 2pm.

We only have a small number of days a year when the course is not available to social players. This is an important weekend for the club and we hope you will understand.

In other news, we will be coring and sanding the greens in the next few weeks - probably early December - and we will be remodelling and resurfacing the 3rd green some time after that.

07/11/2025

Golfers! If you are planning on having a round this Sunday morning, please be aware that Toongabbie Golf Club will be hosting the Traralgon Harriers annual Memorial Run, a fund raiser for Lifeline Gippsland. There will be upwards of 100 people running and walking around the course from 9.30 am. There will be a 13km run and 6km walk.

The event raises funds for an important local service and we ask that you delay starting your round until after the event, which should be wrapped up by 11.30am.

Of course you could warm up for your round by joining in the event. Entries will be accepted on the day.

We wish the Harriers every success in running a successful event.

09/10/2025

Golfers! This Sunday, October 12, we will be holding the ‘Toongabbie Plate’, one of our big events of the year. There will be groups of 4 players on most holes on the course between 10 am and about 2pm.

Green fee players are welcome if they finish before 10 or not start until after our event concludes.

We hope this won’t upset too many people’s plans for Sunday.

01/10/2025

Harriers’ Run Deferred!!

The charity run/ walk that was to be held this Sunday has been deferred to a date that will likely be in November.

It seems that a couple of our resident magpies unsettled the people that were marking out the course to be run.

13/09/2025

We are hosting the Traralgon Harriers Lifeline fundraiser on October 5.

Get involved and make it a great day. And remember, it’s for walkers as well!!