The West Course was designed by Dr. Alister Mackenzie in 1931 and it lies on terrain as fine as any in world golf. The timeless strategy of the great Doctor's design is brilliantly simplistic - the wide fairways are playable for every golfer but, like The Old Course at St Andrews, demand precision shots to the tightest corners in order to access the preferred route to the greens. The course is full of highlights - its bunkering is spectacular, the natural vegetation frames each hole and shot beautifully and the greens are true whilst being devastatingly fast and undulating.

The West Course supplies 12 of the Composite's holes - the Composite has hosted every major domestic tournament as well as the World Cup, Bicentennial Classic and President's Cup.  Gene Sarazen famously commented: "It burns me up that with the billions of dollars spent on course construction in the last 50 years all architects together haven't been able to build another Royal Melbourne". Tiger will be back for the 2011 Presidents Cup but you can play Royal Melbourne before he does!