Golf in Tasmania

Golf was invented in Scotland and it was the Scottish settlers who introduced the game into Australia in the 1830's, on a grazing property called Ratho at Boswell. The course is still there, along with the Australasian Golf Museum. There is also a Scottish 'feel' to many of the highland and seaside links.

There are more than 80 courses in Tasmania, some public, most private and visitors from other registered clubs will receive a warm welcome at the clubs and courses. There are 11 major 18-hole courses including championship courses in the south (Royal Hobart, Tasmania Golf Club, Kingston Beach and Claremont) and the north (Launceston Country Club, Devonport and Ulverstone).

There are lots of charming and unique 9-hole courses dotted around Tasmania. At Grindelwald, near Launceston, the gabled facades of a Swiss village surround the course and, if you tee off at the Tasman Club near Port Arthur, beware the par 3 eighth hole. Take a few spare balls because your tee shot has to lob onto a small green on the other side of a deep chasm that plummets hundreds of metres to an ocean below!