28/11/2023
King Island-Barnbougle Feedback from a Group from the USA.
Hi Wayne, thanks for organizing our trip -- it was memorable, we had great weather, and overall we and our wives had a wonderful time. Every aspect of the logistics went smoothly including delivering the luggage to our hotel for his trip to Sydney.
Overall great itinerary. Given that we had to stay near Ocean Dunes on King Island, 18 - 36 - 18 with Cape Wickham in the middle made a lot of sense.
King Island:
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* Cape Wickham food at both lunch and dinner was outstanding. Wonderful seafood and fish & chips.
* Both courses in excellent condition and better than Tasmania in our opinion -- Cape Wickham #1 and Ocean Dunes #2; very good hospitality from the staff - Both Cape Wickham and Ocean Dunes rival any courses at Bandon Dunes (for Americans this is the premier links venue), for Canadians their premier links venue is Cabot Links in Nova Scotia) and both courses were on par with those.
* Sharp Air did weigh our luggage and even though we were over the 15/6 kg by a few kilos they ultimately did not say anything even though it was a full flight with 19 passengers. We never had to pull the "international traveler" card.
Tasmania (Barnbougle)
* Rooms and food were very nice there!
* Both courses in excellent condition and very good experience with our caddies
* We had a flat tire upon arriving to our car in the Barnbougle parking lot and both the head pro (Adam?) and our caddie jumped in to help and we were on our way with only a slight delay
P.S. David ended up playing one more round at Port Fairy Golf Links which ended up being my third favorite of the 5 courses we played. The ocean holes #12 thru #16 were truly stunning. Unbelievable for a $59 AUD course.
Photo 1 Cape Wickham
Photo 2 Ocean Dunes