Queensland

Queensland, Australia

Royal Queensland Golf Club hosted three Australian Opens in 1947, 1966 and 1973. Perhaps the nation’s premier professional tournament is due a return here some time in the future?

Queensland, Australia

The course at Brookwater Golf Club has become quite a talking point in its few short years of existence. It is essentially a public course and therefore receives a good airing with the golfing public.

Queensland, Australia

Hamilton Island Golf Club is not actually located on Hamilton Island; instead it’s laid out on nearby Dent Island and is accessed by ferry from the marina...

Queensland, Australia

The Greg Norman-designed course at The Grand Golf Club started out as the Gilston Golf Club in 1990 and its rebirth was complete when the club hosted the 2001 Australian Open.

Queensland, Australia

Hope Island is Thomson’s tribute to old-fashioned golf and it embodies all that is good in the links game...

Queensland, Australia

Situated in the Golden Beach area near Caloundra, Pelican Waters Golf Club lies on relatively flat land with creeks coming into play at nearly every hole...

Queensland, Australia

Arnold Palmer has designed more than 300 courses but so far he has only one Australian signature course to his name and it happens to be the Pines course here at Sanctuary Cove Golf and Country Club

Queensland, Australia

This Greg Norman designed course at The Glades Golf and Spa opened in 2000 and is considered to be one of the Great White Shark’s better golfing projects.

Queensland, Australia

Many of the holes on the Championship course at the Capricorn Resort dogleg right or left to test the shot-making abilities of golfers and there’s plenty of water to be found on the inward half...

Queensland, Australia

One of the best conditioned public access courses in the country, Pacific Harbour Golf and Country Club arrived on the Australian golf scene in 2006...

Queensland, Australia

Kooralbyn Valley Resort was Australia’s first golf resort when it debuted in 1979. Ownership changed hands several times before it closed for six years in 2008, but it’s now back in all its former glory following an impressive refurbishment.

Queensland, Australia

Visually stunning, the Palmer Coolum golf course utilises about a third of the resort property, with a mix of links-like holes on the stretch running along the Pacific Ocean.

Queensland, Australia

Designed by Peter Thomson, the course at Twin Waters Golf Club is a fairly flat, resort style layout with splashes of water and sand bunkers dotted in and around the wide fairways.

Queensland, Australia

Graham Marsh has participated in more than twenty Australian golf course projects and the 18-hole resort layout at Robina Woods Golf Club, now known as Palmer Gold Coast, was one of his first commissions as an architect...

Queensland, Australia

The course at Noosa Springs Golf Club lies a couple of miles inland from the Pacific coastline, between the Noosa National Park and Lake Wayba.

Queensland, Australia

Indooroopilly Golf Club sits on the banks of the Brisbane River, a short distance south west of the Queensland state capital, and golfers have played here since the 1930s.

Queensland, Australia

The original Palms course at Sanctuary Cove Golf & Country Club was designed as a typical resort layout by American Fred Bolton in the late 1980s. Twenty years later, Ross Watson toughened up the challenge...

Queensland, Australia

Lakelands Golf Club is promoted as Australia's first Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course.

Queensland, Australia

The Matsushita Investment and Development Company originally developed the Royal Pines Resort in the late 1980s and Japanese architect Tomojiro Maruyama designed the first 27-hole golf course.

Queensland, Australia

Horton Park Golf Club upped sticks from Maroochydore in 2016 after drafting in Graham Marsh to fashion a layout at Bli Bli on the banks of the Maroochy River. Hey presto, a brand new links-inspired course opened for the fledgling membership of the Maroochy River Golf Club.

Queensland, Australia

Founded in 1896, Brisbane Golf Club moved to its present site in 1906, where Scots-born Sydney professional and three-time Australian Open Champion Carnegie Clark set out the new course.

Queensland, Australia

Originally founded in 1931 as Enoggera Golf Club, the club changed its name to Keperra nine years later. The Old course (holes 1 to 18) is considered to be the premier configuration at this 27-hole facility.

Queensland, Australia

Bribie Island Golf Club is located on the smallest of three large sand banks located close to Moreton Bay. Although much of the island is uninhabited, the course lies across natural sand dunes to the south of a designated national park.

Queensland, Australia

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.

Queensland, Australia

Opened in 1987, Palm Meadows Golf Course quickly became a Tour stop for the Australasian Tour, attracting many big-name professionals. A serious decline in fortunes resulted in a 2010 course closure but it’s now returning to proper prosperity.

Queensland, Australia

The Mitsuaki Kobayashi-designed layout at Palmer Colonial debuted as Paradise Springs in 1992. Acquired by businessman Clive Palmer in 2011, the course is one of several golf facilities on Australia’s east coast now owned by the mining magnate.

Queensland, Australia

Featuring six par threes, six par fours and six par fives, the course at Mirage Country Club in Port Douglas is a resort-style layout designed by Peter Thomson and Mike Wolveridge, with a couple of fairways on the front nine routed alongside Four Mile Beach.

Queensland, Australia

Formed in 1928 with a 9-hole course, Virginia Golf Club had eighteen holes in play by 1933. An additional nine holes have since been added so the modern day set up comprises the 18-hole Championship course and the 9-hole Heritage layout.

Queensland, Australia

Located close to the Pacific Ocean coastline, the Robert Johnson Snr-designed course at Coral Cove Golf Club features the longest hole in all of Australia, a par six measuring more than 600 metres from the back tees on the 13th hole.

Queensland, Australia

Hervey Bay Golf Club was established in 1938 at Point Vernon but the club moved to its current 150-acre location seven years later. The initial 9-hole layout served golfers for over thirty years until it was eventually extended to eighteen holes in 1977.

Queensland, Australia

Occupying a property that extends to 110 acres, the course at Southport Golf Club is an easy walking track, with just a mild amount of undulation in the land as the tree-lined fairways weave their way around in two returning nines.

Queensland, Australia

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.

Queensland, Australia

Founded in 1937, Pacific Golf Club moved from its original site at Upper Mount Gravatt to its present location at Carindale in 1964. The Bulimba Creek wanders through the course, its sparkling waters coming into play at several holes.

Queensland, Australia

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.

Queensland, Australia

Located adjacent to the swampy wetlands of Chinaman Creek, the golf course at Cairns Golf Club dates as far back as the 1920s. It’s been altered quite a bit down the years, most notably by Ross Watson in the early 1990s.

Queensland, Australia

In 1935, the club changed its name from Goodna to Gailes Golf Club, reflecting a similar name change made to the local railway station. The club immediately contacted Western Gailes in Scotland and the two clubs exchanged trophies for perpetual competition.

Queensland, Australia

Mount Coolum Golf Club started out in 1976 as Suncoast Beach Golf, with a 9-hole course in operation. Another nine holes were added in 1992, by which time the club’s name had been changed to Mount Coolum.

Queensland, Australia

Located near Nudgee Beach and just ten kilometres to the northwest of Brisbane’s CBD, Nudgee Golf Club dates back to the late 1920s and the Kurrai course is the layout that boasts the best of the holes at this 36-hole facility.

Queensland, Australia

Somewhat surprisingly rated (surely by mistake) in the Second Edition of The Rolex World's Top 1000 Golf Courses, the public access East is generally considered to be the private West's understudy at the 36-hole Indooroopilly Golf Club.

Queensland, Australia

Situated at the southern tip of Queensland’s beautiful Sunshine Coast, Caloundra Golf Club was established with a 9-hole layout in 1951. Al Howard then added another nine in 1966 to fashion the 18-hole course that’s in play today.