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.