Bonville Golf Resort (Winter)

Overview: Bonville’s Winter routing is part of the 18-hole, par-72 course at Bonville Golf Resort on the Coffs Coast. The layout moves through subtropical woodland beneath the Great Dividing Range, with flooded gums, creeks and dense native vegetation shaping the sightlines. Instead of presenting a single open coastal style, the course changes character from hole to hole: some fairways invite a confident drive, while others ask for placement before the approach. The resort setting adds accommodation and dining, but the golf remains the reason to make the detour from the Pacific Highway.

History: Bonville was developed as a destination course in the Coffs Harbour region and has grown into one of Australia’s best-known resort golf facilities. The club’s current presentation retains the natural forest setting rather than treating the land as a blank canvas. Its identity is tied to the surrounding rainforest country, the Flooded Gums restaurant and the idea of a golf stop that can occupy a full day or longer.

Did You Know? The name of the resort’s restaurant comes from the flooded gum trees that frame the course. Those trees are more than scenery: their pale trunks and high canopies create the visual rhythm of the round and help explain why Bonville feels like woodland golf even when a hole opens into a broader fairway.