Palmer Sea Reef, formerly known as Sea Temple, is an engaging Thomson, Wolveridge & Perrett links-style design located just outside the small tourist town of Port Douglas, in the tropical north region of Queensland.
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Palmer Sea Reef, formerly known as Sea Temple, is an engaging Thomson, Wolveridge & Perrett links-style design located just outside the small tourist town of Port Douglas, in the tropical north region of Queensland.
Palmer Sea Reef
Opened in 2001 as Links Port Douglas (which then changed to Sea Temple Golf & Country Club), the links-style layout at Palmer Sea Reef is a Thomson, Wolveridge & Perrett design that lies less than a couple of kilometres from Port Douglas’s famous Four-Mile Beach.
Classic links components such as pot bunkers, greenside humps and hollows, even a double green (on the 10th and 15th holes) have been brought into the design so it’s hard to imagine this property was once nothing other than a sugar cane farm located close to the coastline.
Uniquely, a ribbon of rainforest runs right through the middle of the site, splitting the nines into two distinct halves, which rather emphasizes the fact that this “tropical links” is one that can only ever hope to bring golfers a flavour of the real thing to be found in the British Isles.
Queensland
Queensland is situated in the north east of Australia – occupying an area of more than 700,000 square miles – and its population of around four and a half million is concentrated along the Pacific coastline. Queenslanders, like all Australians, love their sport and swimming is one of the most popular – evidenced by the fact that all six of Australia’s gold medals at the Beijing 2008 summer Olympics were won by swimmers from the Sunshine State. Golf Queensland was formed in 2007 following the merging of the Queensla
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