Barnbougle is one of Australia’s, if not the world’s, great golf destinations.
The dramatic Dunes layout, beautifully designed by Tom Doak and Mike Clayton, and Bill Coore’s outstanding Lost Farm course are both listed highly among the best courses on the planet. Then there is the newest addition – the 14-hole Bougle Run short course – which joined its longer neighbours in Golf Australia magazine’s Top-100 Public Access Courses ranking earlier this year.
When opened in 2004, some questioned its viability saying it was too isolated to attract enough golfers to succeed. Those critics have since been well and truly silenced. Its subsequent success has been based on the model of providing world-class golf on spectacular land and,