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Cardwell sits at one of Queensland's most dramatically scenic crossroads — the narrow coastal strip where the rainforest-covered Cardwell Range meets the Coral Sea, with Hinchinbrook Island, Australia's largest island national park, dominating the view across the water. It's a remote, unhurried part of Far North Queensland, about halfway between Townsville and Cairns, and the local golf club reflects that character entirely: a community course built for and by the people who live here, far removed from the resort circuits and prestige rankings of the coast's more famous layouts.
Like most rural Queensland clubs, Cardwell GC likely plays across open, sun-baked ground where the conditions — trade winds off the channel, tropical heat, and the occasional wet-season softening — matter as much as the course design itself. A par of 71 suggests a layout with some asymmetry in its par mix, keeping strategic interest across the round without demanding championship length.
For visiting golfers, the appeal is the context more than the card. You're playing in the shadow of a World Heritage rainforest, with one of Australia's great wilderness islands on the horizon.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40604, USGA BLUE, Men · men | 6,450 | 70.6 | 109 | 71 |
| 40604, USGA, White, Men · men | 5,953 | 67.8 | 108 | 71 |
| 40604, USGA, White, Women · women | 5,953 | 73.7 | 117 | 73 |
| 40604, USGA, Red, Men · men | 5,364 | 65 | 98 | 70 |
| 40604, USGA, Red, Women · women | 5,364 | 69.8 | 114 | 71 |
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