Blog 329 – Clermont

Nomadic_golfer : June 2026 – Clermont GC, Qld, review

Par 71 5677m Slope 106 $25

6 par3s 124-194m, 7 par4s 241-380m, 5 par5s 443-545m

This 9-holer is located in the Central Queensland town of Clermont, a 3,000-people strong hub servicing surrounding coal mines and farms/ stations. The course takes an anti-clockwise routing, 360 degrees around a 40-50m peak on the outskirts of town, and features a creek running through the property that comes into play on a number of holes. The 18-hole version of the layout unusually consists of 6 par 3’s, 7 par 4’s, and 5 par 5’s.

Fairways are firm & fast, tree-lined, predominantly thin gums of 10-20m height, and not too tight. Greens are slightly bigger than your average country units, and do possess some lumps and bumps and points of difference. The creek, the trees and a couple of OB moments are the course’s chief defences.

There is some bland amongst some cool stuff at Clermont, nothing too strategic. Its one of those country tracks that looks pretty basic but has enough character to grab your attention. The cool stuff includes: 2/11 (a 364m par4 and a 443m par5, that starts off with a tree in the middle of the fairway before snaking its way up to that creek which crosses the fairway at about 125m out, and finishes with a long, slender green with high bank left and drop-off right); 4/ 13 (241m par4 and 194m par3, where both holes look like they should be a par 3.5. With the driver in hand there is a tree in the middle of the fairway about 30m short of the green, with 10m of fairway on either side of it and the green in line with the left tree line. The surface under the trees is clean and the trees don’t have much growth down low, so I don’t see any reason why this hole isn’t all out attack. The green looks at you diagonally from short right and a small back, left tier would be the pin position for the big days); 8/17 (left to right, 490/ 545m par5s, with a left to right cambered tee shot, sloping down toward the right-side OB for the length of the hole, very much in play for the drive. The fairway narrows at the corner of the dogleg to about 25m wide, then the creek cuts across at 150m out, before an anti-climactic green complex, after that feature-filled first 2/3 of the hole); and the green complex on the finishing hole (9 is a 168m par 3 and 18 a 282m par4. After a 180- 200m carry of the creek from the back tees, the green is in a deep punchbowl that sits in front of a sharp rise of 15-20 feet over the back, which wraps half-way around each side. There is a small hump between the back of the green and the sharp rise, so if you want to use the back-stop you have to climb most of it rather than just trickle over the back).

Overall, this is entertaining country golf. Conditioning is ok, and there are enough little features to give you a chuckle and to test your control of the golf ball.