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Michael Wolveridge was still actively redesigning golf courses, including a major project at the Mirage Country Club, at the age of 82, just before his passing.
Michael Wolveridge was a highly influential Australian golf course architect, celebrated for designing over 200 courses in 23 countries during a career spanning five decades. Renowned for his long-standing partnership with five-time Open Champion Peter Thomson, Wolveridge’s design company—variously known as Harris Thomson Wolveridge and later, Thomson Wolveridge and Perrett—was regarded as among the top tier globally, competing with the likes of Robert Trent Jones and Jack Nicklaus.
Some of his most significant works include the Mirage Country Club and the Palmer Sea Reef course in Port Douglas, as well as the Ocean course at The National Golf Club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Wolveridge was also instrumental in expanding The National from an 18-hole to a 54-hole complex. As a past president of the Society of Australian Golf Course Architects, he was dedicated to both design innovation and the ecological aspects of course construction. Wolveridge remained active in his profession well into his 80s, continually shaping landscapes for golf and leaving a lasting legacy in international golf course architecture.
