Residential golf communities are no longer a novelty. When we last reviewed Australia’s golf estates in the 2003 Guide, we observed that what started at Tura Beach in NSW in the 1970s had boomed on Queensland’s Gold Coast throughout the 90s but was as yet in its infancy with only a handful of new developments on the Victorian and Western Australian coastlines. Now we count nearly 100 golf courses with residential development, and many more are planned. more...

above - The Par 5, 4th hole at Thirteenth Beach
Pic by David Scaletti
