[3][4] Founded 134 years ago in 1891, it is Australia's oldest extant and continually existing golf club.

The match was convincingly won by the International team, captained by Peter Thomson, an honorary member of Royal Melbourne.

[7] It was the site of the Women's Australian Open for the first time in February 2012, now an LPGA Tour event, and it returned three years later in 2015.

(Patrick Kinney) McCaughan, a New Zealand pastoralist, parliamentarian, businessman and developer and proprietor of the Old Rialto Hotel building in Collins Street.

The actual building of the West course was overseen by the famed Australian golfer Alex Russell, as well as the head greenkeeper Mick Morcom; it was completed for play in 1931.

The West course has several holes that are celebrated internationally, but they are not long compared to the current standards for championship par 4s and 5s.