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Golfers at the Royal Queensland Golf Club, Hamilton, Brisbane, 1933

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The Queensland Golf Club was founded in 1920 and was opened on 12 August 1921. It was made possible because of the resumed land beside the river from the Hamilton Training Wall project and extending to the Pinkinba Beacon. The Royal Queensland Golf Club was designated as such in 1921 under King George V. A large set of Tennis Courts was opened at the site on 8 December 1923. It was said that a polo field was anticipated rather than the tennis courts, and if true, it indicates a shift in power within ‘Brisbane Society’ between the modern upper-middle-class and the older aristocratically-inclined conservative class. It has to be remembered that Queensland societies, as elsewhere in the Commonwealth, still held to British class ethos in the early twentieth century, even as it was coming under pressure to reform, criticisms usually coming from the poorer sections of the community. Social and recreational activities had qualities of economic discrimination. Source: mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/history-location/royal-quee...