Tasmania - Lost Farm Found

This brand-new Tasmanian track, sister course of the much-heralded Barnbougle Dunes, has the potential to be a world beater, writes Paul Myers

The other 18 holes make the course a standard par 72, one more than Barnbougle Dunes, which is an entirely upwind-downwind course with two distinct nine holes on either side of the clubhouse.
In this respect, The Lost Farm is more varied. Skirting around the lodge, restaurant and spa perched high on soaring sand dunes overlooking the ocean, it plays up, down and cross wind and goes from dramatic holes carved between the dunes to flat, wide fairways adjoining the river flats.
The heavily undulating bent and fescue fairways and greens largely reflect natural contours. The most dramatic hole is the long par-4 fifth alongside the Great Forester River that separates the two courses. From the tee, the green can be seen right on the river’s edge, with straight-line access to the fairway blocked by a huge marram grass-covered sand dune. For big hitters it’s a 275-yard carry to the fairway over the dune from the back tees or, for mortals, the hole is played as a stern dogleg right.

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