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Mosman Golf Club

former golf club in Sydney, Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6916391 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Mosman Golf Club was established in 1923 on Middle Head, in the Sydney harbourside suburb of Mosman. The club officiated the construction and management of a 24 hectare, 9-hole golf course built on land acquired from the Commonwealth government under a 21-year lease on the condition that, if required, the land could be repossessed without compensation.

This occurred in 1940, with the onset of World War II, when the Australian Government resumed the land and the clubhouse for military use. The club was closed consequently.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mosman Golf Club” is former golf club in Sydney, Australia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mosman, Golf and Club, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1940—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923. For this dossier, Mosman, Golf and Club is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “former golf club in Sydney, Australia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6916391. Authority coordinates are -33.836, 151.249. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1923 and 1940.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mosman Golf Club” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.