Rowes Bay Golf Club

Rowes Bay Golf Club sits right on the edge of Cleveland Bay in Townsville, one of the few courses in Australia where the Coral Sea is a genuine backdrop rather than a distant promise. Townsville is tropical North Queensland at its most authentic — a working port city flanked by Castle Hill's pink granite and the Magnetic Island ferry lanes — and the golf here carries that same unpretentious, sun-baked character. The course occupies flat coastal terrain typical of the region, where trade winds off the bay can turn a straightforward card into something considerably more demanding than it first appears.