
Lost Farm Course
Barnbougle Dunes Golf Links





About this course
Lost Farm, sister course to Barnbougle Dunes in Tasmania, presents a walking-only golf experience that is as much a journey through the landscape as it is a test of golfing skill. This exhilarating course offers golfers a unique, unvarnished experience. Designed by Bill Coore, of Coore & Crenshaw, Lost Farm departs from traditional links layouts. It presents twenty holes, playable in various 18-hole combinations across tumbling coastal dunes, with wide fairways and large greens that embrace the raw, rugged terrain. This provides a strategic and visually stimulating round where imagination and shot-making flourish, favoring those who embrace the ground game and can expertly judge the wind's influence. While not hosting major championships, Lost Farm has quickly gained recognition amongst avid golfers, who tout its exceptional playability and breathtaking views. It stands as a testament to the enduring allure of links golf, offering a purist experience in a breathtaking and untamed corner of the world, and is increasingly desired as a bucket list destination for golfers traveling to Tasmania.
Rankings
Ranked by CV ratings from golfers who've played this course. Positions are shown worldwide, by country, and by state; the Public column compares courses anyone can play.
Best in World
Best in Australia
Best in Tasmania
Quick facts
- Location
- Bridport, Tasmania, AU
- Access
- Public
- Year built
- 2010
- Designer(s)
- Bill Coore, Ben Crenshaw
- Holes
- 18
- Par
- 72
- Length
- 5,727 metres
- Course Vaults score
- 9.1
Getting there
The journey to Barnbougle Dunes Golf Links begins with a flight into Launceston Airport, Tasmania's gateway in the island state's north, followed by a roughly ninety-minute drive northeast through rolling farmland and coastal scrub. The route traces the edge of Bass Strait, where the landscape gradually sheds its pastoral character for something wilder and more elemental - windswept headlands, salt-bleached grasses, and the first glimpses of dune systems rising against the Southern Ocean. As the road narrows and civilization thins, the final approach to Bridport delivers you to one of golf's most remote and dramatically sited properties, where the corrugated iron clubhouse and tumbling linksland announce arrival at the edge of the world. For those seeking absolute discretion, charter flights can arrange direct access to nearby Bridport Aerodrome, though the drive itself is half the pilgrimage.

FAQ
Common questions about Lost Farm at Barnbougle Dunes Golf Links
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Lost Farm at Barnbougle Dunes Golf Links has a Course Vaults score of 9.1 out of 10 based on 18 logged golfers.
Lost Farm was designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw.
Yes. Lost Farm at Barnbougle Dunes Golf Links is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.
Par at Lost Farm is 72.
Lost Farm plays 5,727 metres from the back tees on Course Vaults.
Lost Farm is a 18-hole course.





