DUNCAN Andrews and his son, Cameron, owners of the Dunes and 13th Beach, are building a new 10-hole golf course on the St Andrews Brewery site on the Mornington Peninsula.
The land involved is 36 hectares or 90 acres, on which are the brewery, an old racetrack, part of the Freedman Bros racing stables, an apple orchard, and most importantly beautiful sand dunes. Ideal land for golf.
“The course will be called Barrier Run reflecting the obvious racing heritage of the site,” Duncan Andrews told Inside Golf.
At the southern end of the Mornington Peninsula, the land abuts Moonah Links golf course and is also very close to both The Dunes Golf Links, St Andrews Beach and The National Golf Club.
Andrews said building a 10-hole course was a nod to the changing face of the game.
“Golf is changing, and golfers increasingly want ‘golf joy’, more than playing on some difficult championship golf course.
“They want golf which is fun.”
The nine- hole Cups course at The Dunes is evidence of this. The Cups is very popular and although not a long course, it still has many fabulous golf holes.
“Barrier Run seeks to create something similar to The Cups, namely, beautiful ambience and a ‘wow factor’ without it being overly difficult,” Andrews said.
“Golfers are increasingly time poor and 10 holes is ideal – two hours maximum. Barrier Run meets these requirements as it winds through beautiful sand dunes, an apple orchard and an old racetrack.”
A 10-hole course is planned for the St Andrews Brewery site on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.
At present The Dunes, who will manage Barrier Run, is going through the long and involved approval process with the authorities. Construction is expected to begin in 2026 and the course open for play in 2027.
The 92-acre site was once the home of horse racing legends and boasts a brewery and large-scale orchard and soon a golf course.
In the mid-2000s the property was owned by the famous Freedman horse racing family and housed up to 80 thoroughbred horses with its grassed racetrack, before they sold in 2015 to the current owners. During the time it was owned by the Freedman’s, 100 group-one winners called the stables home, including multiple Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Golden Slipper champions, amongst them Makybe Diva, the winner of a Cox Plate and three successive Melbourne Cups in 2003, 2004 and 2005, Mummify, a horse with five group one victories to his credit, including a Newmarket Handicap, and Alinghi, a four-time group one winner and highly successful broodmare post her racing career.
The property is about an hour’s drive from Melbourne’s CBD and is near the Moonah Links Golf Course, Gunnamatta Surf Beach and Peninsula Hot Springs.
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