[2][3] It was the first golf club in Australia to give women members equal rights to men, and is one of few golf clubs in the world managed entirely by female members.

[3][4] The idea of a golf club where women would have equal rights as the men had been mooted since around 1963.

Some years later, it was made known to Hilda Reid and Kathleen Atherton, who were members at Ashgrove Golf Club,[4] that Centenary Estates were offering land for the development of a golf course.

They subsequently met with Mr Peter Lightfoot, general manager of Centenary Estates.

On 20 September 1968, Atherton signed an agreement on behalf of McLeod Country Golf Club to purchase the land for the price of $1; the sale was agreed on the provision that the buyers built the golf course.