RACV Goldfields Resort

Overview: Creswick’s Goldfields resort includes a par-72 course over 18 holes at Creswick in Victoria’s Central Highlands. Tony Cashmore’s layout uses the rolling Goldfields terrain, broad fairways, lakes and strategically placed bunkers to create a resort round that feels connected to the surrounding bush. The course is part of a wider accommodation and leisure destination, so it works naturally for a golf weekend as well as for visitors passing through Ballarat and the historic goldfields towns.

History: The resort course has been shaped as a modern destination facility, with the golf course and lodge designed to work together. RACV’s current information highlights the course’s reopening and continuing investment after improvements, while the present layout retains the original sense of a spacious country resort. Tony Cashmore’s design is expressed through the use of existing landform, water and open approaches rather than a highly enclosed suburban routing.

Did You Know? Creswick’s goldfields landscape is part of the course’s identity even though the fairways are green and irrigated. The broad horizons and mature woodland around the resort are a reminder that the course sits in a region shaped by historic mining, not in an anonymous resort zone.