1. Bunkerbabe | Rated | 09 Feb 2012 | Add A Review

The green keeper keeps the fairways too short and the second cut is 3inches high and so thick you can’t get your ball out. I don’t mind loosing a ball if I slice into the trees but if I am 1 metre off the fairway it is ridiculous. The fairways are also getting thinner and the water system is keeping the rough long and lush. Be sure to take a brush cutter with you.

2. q-tip | Rated | 23 Oct 2011 | Add A Review

Measures 5724m Par 71 with five par 3 ranging from 135-186m, nine par 4s ranging from 267-403m and four par 5s ranging from 440-501m.

Course has couch fairways and teebeds with are a little dry and patchy. The small-to-medium sized bent grass greens are a little slow. In the rough there is scrubs and trees off the fairways and this is usually thick enough to lose a ball in. There are only 3 bunkerless holes (2nd, 7th & 14th) with a total of 24 bunkers on the course which has mostly sandy soils underneath its layout.

Highlights include: the opening 312m 1st (index 14) which doglegs 90 degrees right from 180m off the tee with 2 bunkers middle-right of the fairway from the dogleg corner to a green with 2 bunkers; the 357m gentle dogleg right 5th (index 2) slightly uphill with thick vegetation along the left to a green with a bunker left; the 157m slightly uphill 11th (index 9) with 2 bunkers shortside; the 483m straight 12th (index 17) slightly uphill with a fairway bunker left 240m off the tee with a dry red-staked gully across the fairway 90m short of the green with 2 rightside bunkers; and the 186m 17th (index 13) with a walk across the roadway to the tee which is slightly above the green with a bunker short left.

There are a few short and rather weak dogleg holes like 267m 9th (index 18) and the 317m 18th (index 15). There are 9 holes where the flags are not visible from the tee mound which adds a little intrigue to the hole.

Bordertown is a town of about 2600 people about 45 minutes north of Naracoorte and 90 minutes west of Horsham.

Despite being one of the shorter layouts in the south-east I was overall impressed with this fairly challenging layout.

Played here 7th October 2011 with $22 green fees. Course access is 6km north of the town centre along Golf Course Road.

3. Funky71 | Rated | 29 Dec 2009 | Add A Review

Bordertown golf course is a thinking mans course with numerous holes requiring much thought off the tee and off the fairway. The prime eaxamples of this are the 1st, 5th, 6th, and 18th making this course challenging from start to finish. The fairways are cut short and are generally in condition, however they can be patchy on certain holes. The greens are of a high quality and are reasonably large, making most greens reasonably easy to hit as long as a good tee shot has been played.
The first is a most intriguing hole, not dissimiliar to the first at Loxton, it requires a three iron from the tee and then a shoprt pitching wedge to the green. Trying to drive the green from the tee is too big a risk due to the scrubby bushland that occupies much of the rough.
This course will require you to play all your clubs as the variation is length and location of greens will test every aspect of your game.

TandM