Golf Industry Central Autumn 2013 Part Deux | Page 20

Some Guys Barnbougle
96-Hole Marathon
What is it that inspires six very different golfers to hop on a plane
and play 96 holes of golf in three days?
Barnbougle Dunes and Barnbougle
Lost Farm are situated along
side each other on the northern
Tasmanian coastline and as two
public access golf courses they are
two of the best most golfers are
ever likely to play.
I recently visited ‘Barny’ with a
bunch of mates that varied from
regularly playing golfers to one
friend who plays “two or three times
a year”.
I suggested we play five rounds
of golf during our three-day stay.
Overall, 96 holes of golf. Three
rounds at Barnbougle Dunes and
two rounds on the 20-hole Lost
Farm course. Remarkably, my
intense schedule didn’t put any one
off making their way down to the
Apple Isle.

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However, a few days before the trip,
I wondered whether we had bitten
off more golf than we could chew.
There are no golf carts at
Barnbougle, a usual 40 kph ‘breeze’
and a couple of mates had more
cobwebs in their bags than balls.
“What was I thinking? Or
perhaps more to the point,
what were they thinking?”
I consigned myself to the fact that
we wouldn’t complete the 96 holes
challenge I’d scheduled and began
imagining a quiet afternoons in the
clubhouse, sipping wine and telling
stories.
But a strange thing happened. The
boys hadn’t come this far to miss an
opportunity to play a lot of golf.

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