Today was golf day for the guys and we tackled Palmer Sea Reef, formerly Sea Temple until Clive Palmer took over ownership. I have to say that he has not done the course any favours, as I don’t believe its improved since I played on it last time, in fact its gone backwards.

Sea Reef is basically a resort course and one street there is only 3 houses, the same as when I played 8 years ago, so maybe that’s a statement in itself on the overall facility!

So in very windy conditions Andrew and I played in the club competition, which was stroke of the Blue tees. Basically the longest course we could play, so the challenge was on and unfortunately we came up short.

So here is the CRAPP report for Sea Reef:

Design: 13 out of 20 (very difficult layout to follow)

Condition: 9 out of 20 (disappointed in the tee boxes & greens)

Cost: 11 out of 20 (high $’s for what was on display)

Visual Appeal: 12 out of 20 (not as lush as we would expect in FNQ)

Facilities: 8 out of 10 (clubhouse good but practice area poor)

Ambience/Appeal: 6 out of 10 (just didn’t give us a warm feeling)

Final rating of 59. Not a great score considering the place and profile of the course. If you compared the Mornington Peninsula courses to Sea Reef, they would win hands down particularly as they cost less. We thought we would play with local members but that did not eventuate, so that certainly took away from the appeal of the Sea Reef.

We are off to play Mosman Golf Course on Tuesday, a more traditional member based club compared to Sea Reef and we are looking forward to hopefully playing with some of the locals.