Ocean Dunes King Island

[Padraig Dooley]

Played Ocean Dunes on King Island at the start of November. It was a wild day winds of 60-80kph, only one shower so not completely disastrous!

Here's a few photos

Opening hole par 5 dogleg left to right



Approach



Tee shot at the third



Par 3 4th



Par 5 5th green



Looking across to the 4th from the 6th



Approaching the 6th green



The par 3 8th



Looking at the par 3 10th from the clubhouse



From the tee



Approach to the par 4 11th



Sand across the fairway on the par 5 12th



The green at the par 4 13th



The par 3 14th with the impending shower approaching



The shower lead to cold hands and no more photos but the 380 metre 18th required a drive, 3 wood and 8 iron!

[James Brown]

What an amazing track!   I hope I get to do a trip to NZ/AU/Tasmania some day. 

[Greg Gilson]

James, you are welcome to make the trip but please note that Tasmania is actually part of Australia. NZ not quite so much (yet).

[James Brown]

James, you are welcome to make the trip but please note that Tasmania is actually part of Australia. NZ not quite so much (yet).

I learn something every day.  My bad!

[Sean Walsh]

James,


For what it's worth, as a Victorian, I'm all in favour of seceding and forming a new country with New Zealand and Tasmania.


I'll go with New Vicmania as the name for now. Our major industries will be golf, dairy farming and Tolkien movies. To get it across the line I'm even prepared to have Rugby as our national sport.

[Greg Gilson]

Sean, toughest job in New Vicmania would be chief weather forecaster.

[Thomas Dai]

Thanks for sharing Padraig.
Ocean Dunes looks pretty terrific. I trust the pro-shop stocks lots of balls as I imagine there are a lot lost on the course. Your photos show the wonderful sky and the rollers tracking for thousands of miles before breaking around the beach really well. A long way to travel to play in a jacket and woolly hat though....but I'd still like to have the opportunity.
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[Thomas Dai]

Somewhere that maybe doesn’t get the love it deserves?

The ocean front holes are excellent, made even better by the grass type that plays more appropriately for the ground game than does standard ‘clingy’ Aus couch.


The less dramatic and less photogenic latter inland holes play over some extremely severe terrain to some of the wildest, most severely contoured greens sites imaginable.

See this hole-by-hole overview - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K1iYIoKf5Ys

The ‘other’ significant King Island course, the one 40 mins further north up the coast, ie Cape Wickham, usually takes more plaudits but make no mistake, Ocean Dunes is worth playing.
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[Matthew Rose]

He lost me at rugby.