The course layout was established in 1969 and features a pine plantation planted in the early sixties on land previously used for dairy farming.

The course was designed by the late Bob Blackwood who was then the local policeman, and Les Skelton who is now in his nineties and still plays with a handicap of 21. Les and his wife Joan (both Life Members) ran the local Swifts Creek General store at a time when the area was prospering from wool and timber production.

Much of the labour and machinery for creating the course was borrowed from the local sawmill which at that time employed over one hundred workers. When required policeman Bob Blackwood would also commandeer labour from the bar of the local Albion Hotel.

As the young pine trees have grown into towering maturity the character and approaches to each of the holes has subtly changed. Major floods in 1994 and 1998 and numerous smaller floods have each left their legacy on the landscape.

In 2003 the Great Alpine fires scorched the surrounding eucalypts but had only a minor effect on the pine trees due to their location on flats close to the creek. A number of pines along the 8th fairway were destroyed and have recently been replanted with eucalypts.