The Vines Golf Club of Reynella is a modern, progressive Adelaide golf club with a rich history and golfers of all ages and abilities are made to feel at home at The Vines.

More than simply a golf course, we organise a vibrant social calendar of events for all the community and we are a popular venue for weddings and celebrations. Our bar and bistro are open to the public throughout the week.

Our course is flanked on three sides by native bush reserves, providing a rural outlook, yet the Club is only 30 minutes from Adelaide’s city centre.

Our fairways are of modern hybrid couch (Santa Ana) and our greens are pure Bent, acknowledged as Championship standard and The Vines was chosen to host:

The Australian Open Championships qualifying round (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

The South Australian PGA Championship (2002, 2003)

The Holden Scramble Regional Final (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

We continue to host major South Australian tournaments.

History

The Club was established on the 16th April, 1925 as a 9 hole links course on a farm property in the southern Adelaide suburb of Marino. It was originally named The Marino Golf Club.

In 1963 the club purchased land at Reynella to establish an 18 hole course and, as a great tribute to the dedication and hard work of the members at that time, the first official competition was held on 20th June 1964. The new Clubhouse was completed in the same year.

The early years of the club at its new location were particularly difficult with the extreme heat of Adelaide summers and a limited water supply creating challenging conditions for the establishment of turf. A dam of 40 megalitres established at the southern end of the course, and a small bore, were together not sufficient to sustain the course and from its earliest years the quest to establish irrigation self sufficiency became the single highest priority of the club.

During the 1980s three small dams were built in creeks on the course and in 1994 the first of a series of major initiatives was undertaken. With the support and assistance of Onkaparinga Council a small stormwater harvesting pond was established in the nearby Panalatinga Creek with a pipeline of 1.3km delivering pumped water up to the club’s main dam. The start of a new era for the club had been made.

With a significant improvement in water availability the installation of an automatic irrigation system soon followed, and this was the catalyst in 1996 for commencement of the complete re-turfing of the golf course. Drought resistant and tough Santa Ana couch was selected for the fairways and over a period of six years this work was completed to produce what is now one of the finest playing surfaces for golfers anywhere in the state.

Confusion about the location of the club prompted a change of name in 1998. The Marino club was now at Reynella and, with its location in the birthplace of the wine industry in South Australia, the club adopted its new name of The Vines Golf Club of Reynella.

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