Golf Magazine’s 100 best rankings could soon be welcoming a seventh antipodean entry as Tasmania’s 7 Mile Beach Golf Course eyes late 2024 for its official opening.
Conveniently located just 20 minutes from Hobart (and only 10 minutes from the airport), 7 Mile Beach Golf Course has been a lifelong dream of PGA Tour professional and “self-confessed hard-to-please” Tassie local: Mathew Goggin.
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Goggin enlisted the esteemed services of Mike Devries, Mike Clayton, and Frank Pont to design what has been described as a breathtaking links layout. This has been an ambitious collaboration to create something worthy of international acclaim from scratch.
And one that’ll certainly be on par with the likes of King Island as well as BH office favourite Barnbougle, if not greater.
“If we mess this up, it still could be the second-best course in Australia,” Clayton remarked immediately after the three-day physical assessment of the grounds, which had spent years as an unmanaged reserve succumbing to an infestation of introduced trees.
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Now, after a decade-plus process of adapting fantasy into material reality, you’ll soon be able to swing a club on an enviable topography that echoes the traditional links golf courses of the UK; against the cinematic rolling dunescape of Hobart; paired with uninterrupted views of Tiger Head Bay (especially from the 18th green) and the wider Fredrick Henry Bay with distinct hills visible from all sides.
Sun, sea, sand, and golf… just as the almighty intended.
7 Mile Beach Golf Course will be a public facility open to all golfers keen on a full Tasmanian odyssey — green fees and visitor information to be confirmed. Stay tuned for updates.
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