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Tasmania, Australia
Here’s What to Know Before You Book!
Tasmania is quietly becoming one of the most talked about names in Australian golf, and a new arrival is about to raise the stakes further. At Country Club Tasmania in Prospect Vale, just outside Launceston, an 18 hole championship course is taking shape as part of a 20 million dollar transformation designed by acclaimed golf architect Robin Gibson.
For golfers who already have Barnbougle Dunes and Barnbougle Lost Farm on their Tasmania itinerary, this new course adds a third reason to build a longer stay around the island’s north.
Photo Credits: Country Club Tasmania
Tasmania’s golf reputation was built on wild, dune bound links courses. This new course takes a different approach. Rather than coastal fairways, the design leans into inland parkland scenery, with creeks, stone bridges and mature tree lines shaping the strategy of play. Early descriptions point to a course built around risk and reward, with dramatic par threes and approach shots that reward precision over power.
It is a meaningful complement to the Barnbougle courses rather than a competitor to them. Golfers who build a Tasmania trip around linksland golf on the north coast will now have a genuinely different style of course to pair it with, all within easy reach of Launceston.
Photo Credits: Country Club Tasmania
Unlike a new course built from scratch, this one is arriving inside an already operating resort. Country Club Tasmania has long been a fixture near Launceston, with resort rooms, villas, multiple restaurants and bars, and an existing driving range and golf coaching program. That means golfers booking a stay around the new course’s opening will have accommodation, dining and practice facilities already in place, rather than waiting on infrastructure to catch up with the golf.
Photo Credits: Country Club Tasmania
For anyone considering a Tasmania golf trip for the 2026/27 southern summer, these dates are worth building a planning timeline around now, particularly given how early the first to play package goes on sale relative to the opening itself.
Tasmania has spent the last decade building a case as one of the best golf destinations in the Southern Hemisphere, largely on the strength of Barnbougle. A new championship course near Launceston, backed by a serious construction budget and a well known architect, signals that the island’s golf ambitions are broadening beyond its original coastal courses.
For US travelers planning ahead, the opening window lines up well with the Southern Hemisphere’s peak summer season, making it realistic to pair a round at the new course with existing Tasmania golf and touring plans for the 2026/27 travel year.
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