Social golf returned on September 10 when the Victorian government eased restrictions in regional areas of the state.

Chalambar manager Bonaventure Tai said recommencing golf after the easing of restriction in September was "significantly different" to this time last year.

"In comparison to where we were 12 months ago the dynamics and the look of recommencing golf is significantly different," he said.

"Restriction on travel has had an effect on us, this time last year there was a bit more freedom and movement with Melbourne people visiting regional Victoria including us.

"With Melbourne being in lockdown we usually have a large pool of visitors from those regions."

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He said the club's members were delighted to return to the greens.

"We haven't seen an uplift in memberships but we have seen an uplift in participation," he said.

"People are just happy to get out and have a bit of a hit."

He said the return of daylight savings had seen a spike of members returning to the club.

"With daylight savings which just kicked in we have seen a higher rate of participation," he said.

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He said the club's members were the club's number one priority.

"I think from a club's perspective our main objective is to support our members and the general community in any way possible for mental and physical health," he said.

"From a hospitality service perspective it does make things hard with the heavy restrictions on group congregations and capacity limits for indoor and outdoor.

"It has made the social aspect of the hospitality service a little bit more challenging, we are managing through that on a day by day basis"

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