SUNSHINE COAST • QUEENSLAND
Bevan Henzell had a long-held dream of building a championship golf course on his family property near Golden Beach, just south of Caloundra on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.
In 1946, Bevan’s father, Roy Henzell Snr, who had opened Caloundra’s first real estate agency a decade earlier, purchased “1000 acres for £1000”; land best described as an impenetrable ti-tree swamp. Bevan never lost sight of the potential of the land, envisioning a transformation of the swampland into waterfront allotments alongside canals and constructing a golf course on the extracted tonnes of earth.
Bevan died in 1982, and one man’s dream became another man’s passion, as Roy Henzell Jnr, Bevan’s son, pushed ahead with development plans. Having prepared a full environmental impact study, Henzell applied for the first stage of their canal development, but the first real estate blocks weren’t sold until 1989. By the end of 1996, land sales had surpassed $20 million, and Pelican Waters was officially gazetted as a suburb.
Henzell then turned his attention to getting a golf course built. Greg Norman Golf Design was
