1. mooseca | Rated | 19 May 2008 | Add A Review

do yourself a favour and play this great layout. There’s trouble but there is alos plenty of space – well worth the effort

2. dannylee | Rated | 22 Jan 2008 | Add A Review

After playing this great course 6 times in the past year the recent work to improve some of the greens is a huge bonus. Sea Temple plays as a championship course should with great bunkering and much on offer to the hacker and the low marker. With summers heat and humidity to test you physically this course is a must.

3. RABBITSFOR08 | Rated | 13 Jan 2008 | Add A Review

Excellent course, well maintained, deserves being in the top 100 in Australia. Great staff, very helpful.

Being from south, and playing Saturday comp here in December was very hard, make sure you stock up on the water.

Excellent course, by far the best I’ve played.

ALSO LIKED

• Paradise Palms Golf Course
• Mirage Country Club

4. Blackers | Rated | 09 Jan 2008 | Add A Review

Great course. Quite hard for those of us with a 20+ handy cap but the course is in such good condition that that the occasional ball lost in the water (on every hole) is forgotten.

PROS

• Impecciable condition

Cons

• For high handy caps its quite challanging (take plenty of balls to donate to the crocs)

ALSO LIKED

• The Australian Golf Club
• Avondale Golf Club

5. brownie19 | Rated | 30 Nov 2006 | Add A Review

Played the Sea Temple Golf Course (formerly Links) in Nov 2006. As I was a guest of the sea temple hotel across the road the green fees were only $77 with cart.

The course is extremely well maintained, with fantastic fairways and greens. In fact they were the best greens I've ever played on with some serious slopping and contours making putts quite difficult.

Good attention to detail with the cart full of tees and an esky filled with ice.

I would definately play here again if back in Port Douglas.

6. angelopetrakos | Rated | 25 Apr 2006 | Add A Review

My buddy and I are club golfers (every weekend)and we play off 25 & 13. When we get away, we try to only play courses that require you to sit back, take it all in and then pull out the right club to do the job. This course is just that. Its tight off many tees, in terms of landing spots and has great variety with some very interseting par 3`s. The fairways were lush and the greens firm and true. The only two complaints we had were the fees ( we played 3 times in that week, and did not get a discount - we asked before our first game). Secondly, the practice putting green was a totally differant surface to the course!!

The staff and the pro were brilliant - very helpful.

7. wundy88 | Rated | 18 Nov 2004 | Add A Review

After 4 rounds I finally had some idea where I was and where the water was.

I would have appreciated a map like that available at St Andrews that describes the terrain you cannot see and also indicates the slope of the greens. Some of the greens are fiendish for the tourist

Tourists are not going to have a good experience here if they are there for only one day and are without a map.

The staff are top class and the locale is beautiful.

8. tommo2 | Rated | 20 Sep 2004 | Add A Review

Maybe I shouldn't have listened to my playing partners but as a 20odd handicapper, not being able to see shot after shot where the ball ended up was a bit off-puting. We hackers need encouragement after we hit a reasonable shot not a walk over the hill then find out...oops!

Coming from the Dry west, fairway bunkers aren't much of a big deal but one of the small pleasures of golf is to watch your ball roll along the green stuff after a good whack.

Obviously not my style of course yet I can see the challenge for the serious low handicapper. Hey! I thought links golf meant no water. Losing balls in the H2O plus next weeks rent money to play makes this course a blue moon occasion for me.

Still lots of greenery and good company adds half a star.

The Relic.

9. xaarxaar | Rated | 11 Jun 2004 | Add A Review

The previous reviewers have got this course just right. The many fairway bunkers certainly add feature to this otherwise flat course but they're easy to avoid and even off the back tees the course offers less challenges than most resort style courses. The lack of definition means that to a visitor, hitting driver off the tee is mostly guesswork.

I found the people and the clubhouse/practice facilities to be excellent, but like other reviewers thought that the course, especially the fairways, just wasn't in good enough condition to warrant a $100+ green fee.

10. tigertee | Rated | 09 Apr 2004 | Add A Review

A new course in FNQ, I had been looking forward to this round for months. Played it virtually off the blue pegs at 6125m, unfortunatley it didn't float my boat.

3 main gripes; hole definition, mounding and greens.

Hole definition: Standing on a few of the tees it was tough to get a reasonable idea of where the hole was going. "Remember this is from a visiting tourists perspective not someone who will/has learn/t it like a member"

Mounding: Just over the top with the mounds, both quantity and size. I think it was the 13th, all it needs is a wind mill on top of the mound to turn it in to crazy golf. It requires an almost impossibly positioned tee shot to see the green when playing the second shot!

Greens: Very hard "brittle" coverage plus patches of bare dirt. For the sorts of dollars they ask I expect to get a course in an appropriate conditon. If your product is not up to scratch you can't expect to charge top dollar and have happy customers.

Having said the above the fairway and green surround coverage was great, so many other courses have trouble in managing grass coverage on mounds, they could learn a lesson here.

Staff were excellent and couldn't do enough for you.

Couldn't understand why the practice fairway was positioned so close to the first hole. Saw a few people on the first nearly hit, when we teed off there were almost a dozen balls on the fairway.

11. long | Rated | 14 Jan 2004 | Add A Review

I agree with peanuts this person described this golf course to a tee, although I will say this when she blows watch out 11th hole where most hit 8 or nine iron can turn to a 2 iron very quickly.

Service of all staff very professional, nice surroundings, nice clubhouse exspecially right on sunset looking towards the tablelands down towards cairns, makes for a enjoyable afternoon.

Course 7/10

12. peanuts_1 | Rated | 30 Dec 2003 | Add A Review

Sometimes you play a course and you really can't make up your mind. I played it three times in a week and I was no surer after the thrid round than I was after the first.

I grew up on bent greens, so the Bermuda frustrated me each day, but the sheer size of the greens can be blamed for part of my problem.

There are plenty of hazards on the course, some are designed and some have been living there for millions of years (crocs - I didn't see any but the plentiful signs suggested they could be). Carts are compulsory and that's not just to keep the holiday golfers moving on a busy day...

I have to say that if you avoid the fairway bunkers it's not a tough course from tee to green, and for those who play Bermuda greens well I think you could shoot quite low. There is some length, but the lack of real rough and the relatively infrequent interspersing of water hazard into driving areas enables most holes to be attacked.

One of my favourite holes was the par 3 sixth, which is 190m from the back tee, with water back, right and front left, and bunker left. Quite a large green but the club selection in the tropical breeze was so important.

An enjoyable hole on the back nine was the par 4 thirteenth, which was not overly tough at 360m, but carried a risk/reward shot. The conservative line was left of a large mound that protected the green, but that line flirted with rainforest on the left and intermittent fairway bunkers. Driving at the mound was relatively free of hazard, but left a short and blind approach over the mound from a lie not as good as the fairway would be. The green was quite undulating, just to add to the challenge.

I enjoyed most holes but felt there was something missing from them. It may have been the untidy water hazard surrounds, the fact the housing lots around the course are just bare strips of land (thus reducing the aesthetic appeal), or it may have been the relatively low growth of the rough (and so there was little contrast from the fairway). Perhaps these things will improve with time.

Like good resorts the drinks cart was around regularly (although only after 9.30am), and the clubhouse is a good spot for a post-round drink.

A fairly expensive golfing experience which I may do again, but perhaps not until the course has been able to grow a little.