Palmerston Golf Club – host to the inaugural Northern Territory PGA Championship in August – is another established, parkland style golf course with an appealing mix of holes that plans to capitalise on an expansion of local and international golf tourism, not to mention the influx of people moving to Darwin to work in an array of flourishing industries that include oil, gas, agriculture and mining.
The successful staging of the Northern Territory PGA was testament to a number of key people who had a vision to bring first class golf to the Top End. The Championship was the first ever PGA Tour of Australasia event played in the Territory and was remarkable on many fronts, not the least for the job done by a number of passionate Territorians to pull the event together in a short period of time.
The championship was officially announced in May and the ensuing response from Government, community and corporate sectors that rallied together in support of the event was simply superb.
The tournament was lavished with amazing weather and the friendly and hospitable vibe at the golf course and in the activities surrounding the championship was indicative of the welcoming experience that visitors to the Territory come to expect as the ‘norm’.
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