Barnbougle Dunes

Bridport is a small town on Tasmania's north-east coast, and the golf is past it, about an hour from Launceston. When Barnbougle Dunes opened for play on 10 December 2004, plenty of people thought it was too remote to work. Golfers came anyway. Golf Magazine had the course 35th in the world by 2009 and 12th among links courses; Top 100 Golf Courses ranked it 25th in 2025. Two more courses followed on the same land: Lost Farm, by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, in 2010, and the fourteen-hole Bougle Run, by Coore, in 2021.

The land was a potato farm, and the strip of dunes along the water grew nothing. Greg Ramsay had the idea of putting golf on it; the farmer Richard Sattler developed the concept with Ramsay and the architects Tom Doak and Mike Clayton. The fairways are wider than most golfers have played, and that is the trick of the place. The line to a flag comes from one corner of the fairway, and which corner changes with the wind and the pin. The front nine threads through saddles in the dunes; the back nine opens towards the bay. The fourth and the twelfth are under 275 metres from the back tee, and the seventh needs 112 metres.