A rowdy annual general meeting is usually the toughest environment a golf club's president needs to navigate - not the Australian Senate.
But that's exactly where the president of the Marrickville Golf Club will be on Thursday.
The club, situated in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's inner Sydney seat of Grayndler, received $6 million for upgrades as part of a half-billion dollar, invite-only federal grants scheme.
Its general manager Mathew Ward and president Andrew Tighe will now be asked exactly where the money went.
The grants program funnelled $560 million into community infrastructure projects nationwide, but about two-thirds went to Labor-held electorates, the Centre for Public Integrity revealed in September.
At the time, Mr Albanese told the ABC Marrickville Golf Club's funding was partly to fix a sewerage run-off problem, despite club officials providing no evidence of that.
In late October, the finance department confirmed sewerage upgrades were never part of the arrangement and had not been completed.
The 85-year-old club did have sewerage issues because it was not connected to the public sewer system, but it was the NSW government that awarded it a $270,000 grant in September 2025 to fix it.
Under a barrage of questions in parliament, the prime minister admitted he "was not correct" about where the $6 million had been spent.
The Marrickville Golf Club has been at the centre of the now months-long grant saga since it began in September, partly because Mr Albanese is one of its honorary members.
The prime minister had not disclosed the membership, which the club had awarded him 15 years previously, but at the time he said he had not visited the golf course recently - being more of a tennis player.
He chalked up the grant funding, which Labor has said was for delivering election commitments, to being "a good local member".
Thursday's Senate proceedings will hear from two other golf clubs, local councils and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet - although not from Mr Albanese himself, who will be at the COP31 conference in Turkey.
Joining them will be the Australian National Audit Office, which in its submission wrote grant programs for delivering election commitments were routine, but still had to show value for money.
The agency said it was open to performing an audit on Labor's grants program, as it had on multiple schemes enacted by governments of both parties.
