1 · POSITION
The South Course at Seven Mile Beach opened for public eighteen-hole play in December 2025, following preview play earlier that year. Mathew Goggin developed the Tasmanian project, while Mike Clayton and Mike DeVries designed the course. Its place in the Library rests on a completed golf destination, reached through a long process of planning and construction. [1, 2]
2 · BRINGING THE DUNES INTO PLAY
The operator’s chronology begins with identification of the site in 2010, followed by environmental studies and the appointment of the designers. Plantation pines had covered much of the peninsula. The course therefore emerged through deliberate work on an existing landscape; the dunes supplied opportunities, but playable holes did not arrive without intervention. [1]
3 · GROUND AS A HAZARD
The design description emphasises fescue, short grass around the greens and relatively restrained bunkering. Clayton’s account of the thirteenth hole identifies a deep hollow that catches shots missing the intended line. Here the ground itself creates the difficulty. A player can reach the vicinity of the green yet leave a demanding next shot through a small error in position. [2]
4 · ONE COURSE OPEN
The current booking page confirms access to the South Course for Tasmanian, interstate and overseas golfers. A North Course is planned, but remains a separate undertaking. Its presence in the destination’s ambitions should not turn the operating South Course into an already completed thirty-six-hole complex. [3, 4]
5 · ⚑ CANDOUR
Goggin’s founding role and the designers’ architectural work are distinct contributions. The operator’s pages also disagree about the North Course timetable: one anticipates late 2028, another 2029. Neither is an opening already achieved. The dates and completed status used here concern the South Course; the expansion remains a forecast as checked in September 2026. [1–4]
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Sources & Further Reading
Sources checked 24 September 2026.