Gainsborough Greens

First opened for play in 1990, the course at Gainsborough Greens Golf Club made an immediate impact on the local professional golf scene, hosting three consecutive editions of the Queensland PGA Championship, starting in 1991.

The course measures 5,909-metres from the back tees, with par set at 72. Holes are arranged as two returning nines and water comes into play at half the holes on the card, most noticeably on the back nine between the par three 14th and par five 17th, where either a stream, pond or lake is encountered on each of these four holes.

Highlights include the longest of the par threes at the 203-metre 7th (with huge bunkers to the left, right and behind the green); short par fours at the 9th and 10th; and the 472-metre 17th (rated stroke index 2) which bends left and narrows to virtually nothing with a lake running along the left of the fairway before this hazard eats into the front of the green.