JOONDALUP RESORT JOONDALUP • WESTERN AUSTRALIA

It is 35 years since the first balls were struck on a Perth golf course laid across such dramatic terrain few would have imagined the game could ever be played there.

Thanks to the creative mind of American course architect Robert Trent Jones Jr, the 27-hole Joondalup Resort remains as exciting to play as it did all those years ago.

Jones’ career began alongside his famed father, Robert Trent Jones, in the early 1960s before forming his own design company in 1972. In the nearly five decades since, Jones has created or remodelled more than 270 golf courses, across 40 countries and six continents.

During an eight-year period in the 1980s and early 90s, Australia almost became a second home for the Californian as he oversaw the design and construction of courses in Queensland (Coolum), Victoria (The National Old Course and neighbouring Cape Schanck Resort) and Western Australia (Joondalup and Meadow Springs).

Joondalup opened in 1985 and gave Australian golfers