Royal Melbourne Golf Club

Royal Melbourne Golf Club is a 36-hole golf club in Australia, located in Black Rock, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne. Its West and East courses are respectively ranked number 1 and 6 in Australia. The West course is ranked in the top ten courses in the world (or outside the United States). Founded in 1891, it is Australia's oldest extant and continually existing golf club. Royal Melbourne has hosted numerous national and international events, including the 1959 Canada Cup (now Mission Hills World Cup), and the 1970 World Cup. It was selected by the PGA Tour to hold the Presidents Cup, for the first time outside the United States, in December 1998. The match was convincingly won by the International team, captained by Peter Thomson, who had himself earlier served as the Club professional at Royal Melbourne. The course hosted the Presidents Cup again in November 2011, won by the United States. The course also hosted the Women's Australian Open for the first time in February 2012, now an LPGA tour event. The Royal Melbourne Golf Club has a capacity for 15,000 fans.HistoryFounded in 1891 as the Melbourne Golf Club , the founding President was Sir James McBain and the founding Captain was John Munro Bruce . The principal founding member included Patrick Kinney McCaughan, from Otago, New Zealand ; an Otago pastoralist, parliamentarian, businessman and developer of the Old Rialto Hotel building in Collins Street.