Bordertown Golf Club sits in the Tatiara district of South Australia's Murraylands and Riverland fringe — a stretch of the state's southeast where mallee scrub gives way to open farming country and the Dukes Highway connects the region to Adelaide, some 270 kilometres to the northwest. The town itself is perhaps best known as the birthplace of former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and it carries that same no-nonsense, working-country character onto the golf course.
Like most well-established country clubs in rural South Australia, this is community golf at its most genuine — a members' club that serves as a genuine social hub for the district, where the game is taken seriously but the atmosphere stays relaxed. Fairways in this part of the world typically play firm and fast across open, lightly undulating ground, with native vegetation framing the layout and the wide southeastern sky overhead.
The par-71 format suggests at least one of the two-shot holes has been recast over the years, giving the course a slightly asymmetric character worth exploring on the card before you head out.
