The Belleknowes Golf Club will be celebrating 100 years on the green this weekend.
Full rounds of golf interspersed by a get-together and a few nibbles will mark the occasion.
A chance to bask in the club’s new clubhouse is as much of an attraction as the start of a new era.
In 2021, the club’s former clubhouse burned down, destroying the honours boards, records, trophies and memorabilia housed within.
Two years later and Belleknowes Golf Club vice-president Gordon Wilson is excited to celebrate the past while gazing eagerly into the future.
"As we start our second century, we’ll start it in a completely new clubhouse," Wilson said.
"It really was a total destruction of the clubhouse and now we’ve been able to rebuild a new one."
Construction of the new clubhouse was completed about two months ago, well before the expected deadline of Labour Day.
In the absence of their old clubhouse, Wilson said the members banded together and kept its spirit alive.
There were now more golfers on the green than before the fire, he said, including many younger players.
Nearly all of the honours boards had been resurrected from photos people had taken before the fire.
Most of the members coming to the centenary had not seen the new facilities yet and Wilson hoped they would be very impressed by it.
"They’ll have memories of the old one . . . and able to make comparisons with the new one."
Wilson said the next steps in the club’s future would be to review the standard of its greens and continue efforts to attract more members, golfers and users to the clubhouse.
The club would be wrapping up its men’s championship finals in late November with a final members’ dinner to see out the year.
