#1 Resort Golf Course in Queensland – Golf Course Guide Top 100 Courses 2019
Kooralbyn Golf Course Legends
The resort has been ranked as Australia’s #1 Resort Golf Course in 1987 and has since become a multi-award-winning course pioneered by golf legends and long term Kooralbyn residents Norman Von Nida and Randall Vines. Along with previous World No. 1 Greg Norman as its previous Tour professional. With the course also being known as being the former home course of World No. 1 Jason Day and Adam Scott.
Kooralbyn Valley Golf Course
#1 Resort Golf Course in Queensland – Golf Course Guide Top 100 Courses 2019
The 18-hole championship golf course at Kooralbyn Valley opened for play in October 1979 and in two years was chosen to host the 1981 Queensland Open – a fitting tribute to its superb layout. The first golf resort built in Australia with Greg Norman as its tour professional at the time. It is now the golfing holiday destination for tens of thousands of keen golfers every year from Australia and overseas to thoroughly enjoy the challenge of the course like no others.
Desmond Muirhead
A renowned Scottish designer said the land site was one of the best he had worked on within all of the 80 courses he has designed around the world. Kooralbyn is Muirhead at his best. It is a masterpiece of design that has no conflict with nature. Muirhead’s design of the 220-meter par-3 fifth, that drops some 100 feet, featured in Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey S. Cornish’s book, ‘Classic Golf Hole Design’, and was one of a handful of show-stoppers during a round.
Legend Reborn.
After eight years in the wilderness during the global financial crisis, Peter Huang, founder of the Yong Real Estate group, purchased and re-opened the golf course and the resort in 2016.
Golf Course Manager Jeremy Parry, Designer Marcus Lane (Atlas Golf), and Golf Course Shaper Lindsey Richter set about the redesign and rebuild of all greens. The bunkers have been reshaped and refurbished with pure white sand and a new irrigation system has been installed. After the multi-million dollar makeover, the course is set to impress the golfing world once again, with now the USA PGA champion Wayne Grady (Grades) its Golf Ambassador, who used to travel 3 times a week from Brisbane to enjoy his play at Kooralbyn Valley.