The South Course
World Class Links Golf Across Dramatic Dunes
It Begins Here
After five years of shaping Tasmania’s most spectacular coastal dunes, Mike Clayton and Mike DeVries have discovered what we always knew existed here – 18 holes of pure links golf that could only belong to this island.
The dramatic South Course is at the heart of 7 Mile Beach, setting the tone for a distinct and memorable golf experience.
This is not Scotland. Not Ireland.
This is Tasmania, speaking through golf.
”The ground is so variable and interesting, and the green sites are so diverse. On such a spectacular site, bunkers really become superfluous.
Mike DevriesCourse Architect
Design Philosophy
37 BUNKERS. INFINITE POSSIBILITIES.
While other Australian links courses feature 60, 80, even 100+ bunkers, Seven Mile Beach South has just 37. This isn’t minimalism for its own sake – it’s a fundamental rethinking of what makes golf interesting.
With wall-to-wall fescue to work with, short grass surrounds every green. There are multiple angles into every hole. Recovery shots that reward imagination over repetition. This is golf where the ground itself provides the challenge, where creativity beats convention, where thinking beats force.
The result? A course that’s more playable for everyone, yet endlessly complex for those who seek it.
Three Levels, One Journey
The routing doesn’t just use the land – it reveals it. As you play, you’ll journey through three distinct worlds:
High Drama Holes 3 and 4 take you to the summit of the 5th tee. Up here, the wind speaks loudest and the views stretch across the golf course, out to Tiger Head Bay and Mount Wellington beyond. These are the moments that stop you in your tracks.
The Heart Below the main ridge, you’ll find protected valleys and natural amphitheaters. This is where matches are won and lost, where birdies beckon and bogeys lurk. Pure, playable links golf at its finest.
Ocean’s Edge Visited multiple times throughout the round, these holes bring you down to sea level. Salt spray on your face. Waves in your ears. Multiple options off every tee.
Explore The Course
Click on Green Site Numbers For Hole Descriptions as written by Mike Clayton
Hole 1
PAR 4 • 395M
Royal Melbourne’s opener is the best starting hole in Australia. Wide fairway, easy drive but you can’t get away with as much as you think you can. It won’t ruin your day and that’s important. Our first replicated its principles – which replicated the start at St Andrews. (No IBF jokes)
Hole 2
PAR 3 • 165M
Not many holes in Australia move tees laterally to change the look of a hole – but this one does and it’s a much different hole from the back left tee than it is from the forward tee far to the right. The former is a ‘skyline’ green and the latter offers a view of the sea beyond.
Hole 3
PAR 5 • 510M
The advantage the modern-day architects have over those generations’ past is they can make par 5s relevant for the modern ball. A century ago, this would have been a preposterously long par 5 but for long hitters it’s still likely within reach. The rest need to move forward and be sure not to miss the drive too far to the left and off the cliff running the length of the second shot.
Hole 4
PAR 4 • 425M
On many holes there was a chance to make a blind approach for those driving to the wrong side of the fairway and we resisted the temptation to do it too often. Here at the 4th – a long par 4 – was a perfect opportunity because the dune on the right set the strategy up so well.
Hole 5
PAR 4 • 320M
This is a short 4 down the hill to the beach where the ideal drive is down the right. The fairway is wide but play the tee shot to the left and you’re pitching blind over the big dune. It’s even worse if you drive far enough to reach the left bunker and leave yourself a blind, fifty metre bunker shot. No one is an expert at those.
Hole 6
PAR 4 • 415M
The hardest hole on the course to make a par. The fairway is narrow -relative to the others anyway – and a big dune in the middle kicks drives not far enough left down to the right and it takes a great shot to hit the green from down there. It’s really a four and a half par hole and half-par holes are some of golf’s best. See Augusta 13 and The Road Hole.
Hole 7
PAR 3 • 205M
Long par 3s aren’t always popular and here we made one where the best shot is probably to land short and run the ball up onto the green from the left.
Hole 8
PAR 4 • 390M
This is a properly unique hole in Australia for having two greens. There were two perfect green-sites here so we figured why not build both? Long and very accurate drivers playing to the right green can play up the narrow gap on the right. Otherwise go left.
Hole 9
PAR 4 • 385M
The two greens at the 8th create three wildly different tee shots here at the 9th. On days with the right green in play there is a far right tee with a semi-blind drive over a dune on this mid-length par 4. The left green at the 8th has a tee to the left which makes for a drive over dunes to an almost blind fairway with only a thimble of green fescue showing the target. The back left pin is difficult to get to – but it allows a clever shot feeding down from the right to get all the way to the hole.
Hole 10
PAR 4 • 270M
Drivable for some, the key to this short 4 playing at the beach is to drive to where you can best approach the pin on what is a wide, shallow green. Drive left to a left pin and it’s an especially demanding wedge. The bunker in the middle of the fairway controls the strategy – you play left, right, short or over – and like all good holes it engages everyone no matter how far they hit.
Hole 11
PAR 4 • 345M
This difficult 4 plays along the beach in the fashion of the 6th but in the opposite direction. The bold drive down the right makes for an easier approach and those firing safely left will have to deal with the big dune short and left of the green.
Hole 12
PAR 5 • 550M
The longest hole. A diagonal ridge divides the first section of fairway from the rest of the hole and it’s an honest three shotter even for the longest hitters – who can choose which part of the ridge to drive across. The rest – play short and out to the right and then rip a fairway wood.
Hole 13
PAR 4 • 310M
Another drivable 4 but only with a perfect tee shot. The line must be hard down the left side protected by a dune and a bunker. Anything marginally right finishes in the deep hollow short and right – a hollow catching the under-hit pitch shots for those playing further back off the tee. And it’s no good long.
Hole 14
PAR 3 • 165M
A par 3 playing down to a green protected by dunes left, right and long. We found this hole almost as it is – Mike DeVries flattened a small ridge running through the middle of the green and the seed went down.
Hole 15
PAR 5 • 455M
The short route here is down the right but the long second – if you’re hoping to reach the green – is blind across the dune ahead but you’ll be playing down the line of the green. Drive far and left and you get a look at the target, but it takes a great shot to hit the green in two. Most, of course, won’t so leaving an easy pitch is the strategy here.
Hole 16
PAR 4 • 425M
The ‘short’ par 5, 15th is followed by a long four here and driving left and close to the dune sets up a shorter approach from a better angle. Driving to the right brings the bunker short and right of the green into play and it’s one best avoided.
Hole 17
PAR 3 • 145M
Affectionally known during construction as ‘Lee Trevino’s hole’ because the green – especially from the back right tee – so favours a left to right irons shot. The green here is the longest on the course – something making for a wide variety of tee shots depending on the pin position and which of the tees you play.
Hole 18
PAR 5 • 545M
The finisher is a par 5 – the third long hole in the last seven – with a gaping bunker crossing the fairway in the second shot landing area of all but the longer hitters. There is room to go either side of it and from there you pitch up to the green sitting under the first tee and beside the practice putting green.
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