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Great day yesterday for the Legacy Charity Golf Day, so good to see so many members and guests out enjoying the delicious day.

Getting out on Easter Monday for a round is always good when my great mate JC invites me along!

92nd Australian Golf digest magazine Top 100 course played this afternoon. Today was extra special as it's Zach's 4th birthday.

Barwon Heads GC Geelong. Victoria. 1.5 hours from Melbourne airport. Nestled along the beautiful Bellarine Peninsula of Victoria, Barwon Heads is a links style course. The first half dozen holes at Barwon Heads encompass true links style land and holes, as it's the most open area of the course, undulating fairways and deceptive green complexes with fine subtleties wi… Plus

13th Beach GC. Geelong. Victoria. 1.5 hours drive from Melbourne airport. The Beach course is a links style course. The first four holes on the Beach course take the golfer away from the clubhouse in a loop of sorts across fairly benign land before retuning to the clubhouse again and heading off to the better dune based area of the course for most of the remaining 14… Plus

Royal Queensland GC. Brisbane. Queensland. 10 minutes from the Brisbane International airport. One of Australia's premier golf courses nestled along the Brisbane river and underneath the famed Gateway bridge. The course is fairly flat, with beautiful wide open fairways that can have an illusion from the tee of which line was the correct one, members helped with provi… Plus

Arundel Hills Gold Coast. Queensland. 1 hour drive north of the Gold Coast airport,1 hour South of the Brisbane International airport. Arundel Hills was previously a private members only club, but in recent years changed title and with a plethora of golf courses on the Gold Coast, they took the same stance as The Lakelands and have moved forward by becoming a public / … Plus

Paradise Palms, Kewarra. Queensland, Australia. 25 minutes north of cairns. This round takes me to 85 courses played of the Australian Golf Digest magazine! The course has an excellent layout, but unfortunately its best days may be behind it, unless a significant investment is made which I hope happens to help the area and the course. Good elevation is seen here w… Plus

Palmer Sea Reef (formerly Sea temple) Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia 10 minutes south of Port Douglas. The course is a tropical links style course which is really unusual given there wouldn't be too many of these type of layouts in the world. Plenty of natural Australian tropical plants and animals line the fairways and beyond (including crocodiles in the water, … Plus

Capital Golf Course. Canberra. ACT 15 minutes from Canberra International Airport. Small in total length, parkland style course, with some very tight tee shots in between pine tree lined fairways. You must be accurate here or a plummeting score will occur. The course is fairly up and back with some decent elevation change on this small sight for a course. Four holes t… Plus

The Grand Golf Club. Gold Coast. Queensland. 40 minutes from Coolangatta Airport. The course itself provides a tough challenge for all types of golfer, great usage of natural land makes you think the course has been there forever. Plenty to think about with many water carries / hazards lurking as well as the excellent bunkering around the greens and on the fairways the… Plus

Brisbane Golf Club. Queensland. 30 minutes from Brisbane Airport. Brisbane Golf Club was the first club to be built in Brisbane back in 1896. The Championship course is rolling parkland type with many water carries, dogleg holes with blind tee shots, and bunkers on every hole making for a tough challenge. BGC put on a magnificent day with the course looking very sha… Plus

Indooroopilly Golf Club. Brisbane. Queensland. 5 minutes from the CBD. 30 minutes from the Brisbane Airport. Played the excellent and private Indooroopilly Golf Club, with the West course played in the afternoon after lunch and a shower, having played the East course in the morning. 36 holes here, made up of 4 distinctive 9 hole loops. The West course is made up of … Plus

Maroochy River Golf Club. Sunshine Coast. Queensland. Sunshine Coast in 5 minutes away. One of the best public courses to play on the Sunshine Coast, strategic bunkering and lush fairways were more than I'd expected to encounter on my round here. The course is set on a predominantly flat parcel of land, that has the Maroochy River run throughout the layout in parts wh… Plus

Pacific Harbour Golf Club. Bribie Island. Queensland. 1 hour drive from Brisbane Airport. This course ticked off the 82nd played from the Australian Golf Digest magazine listing from 2014! Beautiful flora and fauna greet the golfer here. The course features two nine hole loops, both are a tough challenge for the pro and mere mortal like myself. Island greens are a … Plus

Pelican Waters Golf Club. Sunshine Coast. Queensland. 40 minutes from Sunshine Coast Airport. Another cool Greg Norman designed course. The 18 holes take the golfer on native Australian bushland and waterway adventure. The fairways are in excellent condition as were the greens, and despite the recent rain, the bunkers held up rather well. The greens are narrow, yet lo… Plus

Twin Waters Golf Club. Sunshine Coast. Queensland 10 minutes from Sunshine Coast Airport. Hello Sunshine Coast Golf! Plenty of natural Australian bushland and animals line the fairways and beyond at Twin Waters GC. It's a challenging links style layout with wide generous rolling fairways with man made mounds and typical of it's designer Peter Thompson - pot bunkering.… Plus

Palmer Coolum Resort Golf Course. Mt. Coolum. Sunshine Coast. Queensland. 15 minutes from Sunshine Coast Airport. Ticked off another Australian Top 100 course today. Fairways and greens were in good enough condition but the rough was like Oakmont, and looks like it hasn't been "maintained" for some time. The layout is actually great, with amazing elevation and dire… Plus

Mt. Coolum Golf Club. Sunshine Coast. Queensland. 10 minutes from Sunshine Coast Airport. Before playing next door at the 11 x Australian PGA host course Palmer Coolum tomorrow morning, the old Hyatt Regency, I decided to play the public Mt. Coolum course, and I was very surprised at the quality of the layout. The course has a fairly up and back nature to it with the s… Plus

Peregian Springs. Sunshine Coast. Queensland. 10 minutes from The Sunshine Coast Airport. Peregian Springs is a parkland style course with plenty of water and bunkers lurking around the corner. The course doesn't have a great deal of elevation change but directional change it certainly does have, which makes the course, again surrounded by beautiful natural Aussie bush… Plus