50 ROUNDS OF WOW
ARROWTOWN GC
Arrowtown, South Island, NZ
Arrowtown blends beautifully with its setting, the surrounding rugged peaks and sheer cliff faces of Crown Range and The Remarkables, There are no bunkers on this course … it doesn’t need them because its equivalent hazard are rocks. Big rocks, small rocks and schist outcrops that have been wonderfully incorporated into the design of many holes are what make this layout extraordinary.
Apart from the quirky and cool holes on the course, we suggest you visit in autumn when the maple, oak and cherry tree-covered landscape turns various shades of orange, yellow, red and brown.
BARNBOUGLE DUNES
Bridport, Tasmania
Barnbougle Dunes put Tasmania on the international golfing map when it opened for play in 2004.
Designed by Tom Doak in collaboration with Mike Clayton, Barnbougle Dunes – the first links course built in Australia in nearly 80 years – has since cemented a place among the world’s top-100 courses and is also among Australia’s finest.
The all-fescue playing surfaces, the challenging and fun Doak-Clayton design and the dunescape setting along beautiful Tasmania coastline combine to provide an unforgettable golfing experience.
BARNBOUGLE LOST FARM
Bridport, Tasmania
Almost six years after the Dunes opened for play, the Bill Coore-designed Barnbougle Lost Farm was born.
Coore’s 20-hole creation (with two extra par-3s on the inward half) hugs the sea where possible but it also takes advantage of the fine golfing terrain found just inland from the beach. This has resulted in a layout that plays to all points of the compass and, with the ever-present wind, makes for a wonderful variety of shots during the course of a round.
Lost Farm is fun, world class golf of the highest order.
BOUGLE RUN
Bridport, Tasmania
The newest addition to the Barnbougle family, having opened earlier this year, is already considered one of the best short courses on the planet.
The Bill Coore-designed 14-hole layout, with 12 par-3s and two brilliant short par-4s, twists and turns over and through high, dramatic sand dunes away from the edge of the beach, providing views over the entire Barnbougle property.
Bougle Run is fun from 1st tee to 14th green. Play it with all your clubs, three clubs or just a putter … you read that right as Coore designed each hole with one playing line that could be covered by a putter. Incredible!
BARWON HEADS GC
Barwon Heads, Victoria
Barwon Heads possesses great Old-World charm and there are plenty of challenges and fun holes to experience.
Recent changes overseen by course designers Neil Crafter and Paul Mogford (Golf Course Strategies) have elevated this superb Bellarine Peninsula layout to its highest ever national ranking.
The sequence of holes from the 1st to the 8th are as much fun as you can have on an Australian course, while the year-round conditioning rarely wavers from being simply superb.
BONVILLE GOLF RESORT
North Bonville, NSW
Carved from 250 hectares of Flooded gum and blackbutt forest as well as small pockets of subtropical rainforest, Bonville has often been described as Australia’s answer to Augusta National.
Designers Terry Watson and Ted Stirling were given a brief by the original owners to create a course like
