Dear Golfers, Please note the 2020 Christmas Holiday period (Wednesday 23rd to Thursday 31st December) is a PRE-BOOKING ONLY period. Bookings can be made at www.oceandunes.com.au/golf or calling 0447 830 202. Once booked, you MUST also call Golf Operations on 0448 544 653, 24 hours prior to your tee time to ensure access to the course. Limited clubhouse services will be [...]
To Our Ocean Dunes Community, We hope you are all keeping safe and well? As you can appreciate, the evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic across Australia and Internationally is posing a challenging time for all communities and golf on King Island is no different. Whilst mainland Tasmanian’s are now able to travel to King Island, for other Australian states Border Restrictions remain in place. To understand the latest available information [...]
Ocean Dunes is pleased to announce that the course will remain open for play in July and August 2020, pending COVID-19 restrictions easing and freely allowing golfers to travel to King Island. In previous years the course closed on 30th June and re-opened 1st September. The Cape Wickham Links course is also remaining open in [...]
To Our Ocean Dunes Community, We hope you are all keeping safe and well? Due to the current circumstances associated with COVID-19 and the Tasmanian Government Border Restrictions imposed on 20th March, the option to travel and play golf on King Island from the mainland has closed. We are currently working with all our stakeholders including golfers, travel partners, suppliers, [...]
The course condition is currently very good and as the warmer weather approaches the condition of the fairways and surrounds will continue to improve. Currently, most fairways are in good condition coming out of winter, the exceptions are 5th, 11th and 12th which will need extra time to fill in. It is envisaged that all [...]
Touching Bass Strait in numerous instances, Graeme Grant’s Ocean Dunes layout ducks in and away from the coastline as it meanders along King Island’s west coast. A revealing arrangement of green complexes is a feature of a course where the location alone guarantees attention. Read The Full Article
The Graeme Grant-designed Ocean Dunes made its debut in this ranking just months after opening in 2016 and has managed to hold its position, despite some pressure from below, two years on. Any first time visitor will surely be seduced by the spectacular oceanside holes, but the course loses nothing when the routing turns inland [...]
Long famed for its cheese, free-range beef and laid-back atmosphere, King Island in Bass Strait is also quickly becoming known on a global scale for its amazing, world-class golf. With two magnificent courses now gracing its shores, Ocean Dunes and Cape Wickham, golfers from far and wide are buzzing with excitement about this once sleepy [...]
Here, in the order they fall on the respective courses, are the nine holes our judges voted as the best on King Island. Special mention goes to the short third/12th hole at King Island Golf & Bowling Club. It’s a tall ask to compete with its younger siblings, but our judges didn’t want the best [...]
Two years ago, Tasmania was named the world’s best ‘undiscovered’ golf destination. The 200 judges for that award simply validated what Australian golfers have known for at least two decades. Leading the way, of course, are the Barnbougle courses, Dunes and Lost Farm, as well as King Island’s dynamic duo of Cape Wickham and Ocean [...]
