The Hope Island Golf resort is regarded as the numero-uno "links- style" golf resort course on the beautiful Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia.
History of the Course:
The Hope Island Golf Resort is an 18 hole traditional "links" style championship course and was designed by the popular team of Thomson, Wolveridge and Perrett in early1993.
The 6,457 metres, par 72 championship layout of the Hope Island Golf course consists of two distinct separate sets of nine holes, designed in an authentic links-style fashion and created amidst wetlands. With undulating fairways speckled with 128 "pot-shaped" bunkers, well mowed sloping greens surrounded by low areas of marshland and water traps, the Hope Island golf course proves to be an intense challenge as well as provides a distinct links style golf ambience.
The grand Venetian style clubhouse of the Hope Island Resort provides various services and facilities including locker rooms, dining or even relaxation after a tiring day of golf, complete with its informal yet efficient environment.
Course Trivia:
- The traditional "Links-style" layout of the Hope Island Resort Course is indicative of the great heritage links courses of Britain, Scotland and Ireland.
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- The Peter Senior Charity Pro-Am Day event is well known for it's fund raising towards the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation for the past 9 years, and its 2006 event will be held here at the Hope Island Golf Resort.
- World renowned player and designer of the Hope Island Golf Resort Course, Peter Thomson, is a five times British Open champion.
- The Hope Island Course consists of a golf practice facility with putting greens, driving range and chipping greens with bunkers for golf enthusiasts and a latest technological development in the form of coloured GPS (Global positioning System) installed in all of its electric buggies, to provide images of each hole and one's position on the course- truly a unique experience this!
The Hope Island Resort is a resort golf course that offers a wide range of playing times, 7 days a week
As per Australian Top 100 Golf Courses (2006 rankings), the Hope Island Golf Resort has been ranked as No. 24.
As we continue on this tour we will learn about the other top-50 golf courses in Australia.
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