Dating back to the 1950s, the course at Burleigh Golf Club offers a diverse playing experience, with a woodland front nine followed by a more open back nine. Designed and built by members, it’s now a regional star attraction.
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Dating back to the 1950s, the course at Burleigh Golf Club offers a diverse playing experience, with a woodland front nine followed by a more open back nine. Designed and built by members, it’s now a regional star attraction.
Burleigh
Dating back to the 1950s, the course at Burleigh Golf Club offers a diverse playing experience, with a woodland front nine followed by a more open back nine. Designed and built by members, it’s now a regional star attraction. The club was originally founded as Burleigh Heads Golf Club but it changed its name to Gold Coast Burleigh Golf Club in 1970.
Squeezed into a 115-acre property, the layout measures just under 6,000 metres from the back tees, playing to a par of 71 (35 out then 36 in), with holes arranged as two returning nines. The current course configuration features three par threes on the front nine (at #4, #6 and #8), along with back-to-back par fives at #13 and #14.
Highlight holes include the right doglegging par four 2nd (with a lake to the right of the fairway as it bends towards the green); the long par four 10th (rated stroke index 1, with out of bounds on the right); and the last of the par threes at the 158-metre 17th, where an ornamental pond threatens the front left of the green.
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