Last week on Sunshine Coast

Twin Waters - this resort course is one of the best in Queensland. It is ranked very high in the nation and the value is outstanding. With your guide book you can walk this course for $37 or $52 with power cart. It is a well maintained course, excellent fairways, tee boxes and good water and bunkers. The greens are fast and the cart paths are paved all the way. The club house is small but nice with a well stocked pro shop. The rough does present some difficulties as your ball can sink about 6 or 7 cm in the soft grass and it is very difficult to get out. Take a 2 night trip to the Sunshine Coast and play Twin Waters one day and Tewantin on another. This will give you a good comparison of the different types of course up here.

The other big name courses: Club pelican ($90), The Hyatt ($99) and Noosa Springs ($80) are a little too expensive for me so I have not played them yet. I have played Nanbour, Caboolture, Bribie Island, Twin Waters, Headlands, Caloundra, Horton Park, Mt Coolum and Tewantin here on the Sunshine Coast. Twin Waters, Tewantin and Horton Park are the best of the ones I have played.

To see how SE Queensland at is best take the circle drive into the hinterland. Go to Mary Caincross Park for the look out over the Glass House Mountains, then in to Manley, and end at Montville. You will see some of the most green and lush tropical areas around. There are lots of art galleries, restaurants and other sites to make this a very interesting day. You could combine it with the Eumundi Markets for a complete look.

The weather has been warm but not hot. The daily showers continue but maybe have only prevented us from golf on about 2 days. We have golfed 10 times in the 25 days that we have been here. Just two days more and we move to the Gold Coast to be with all the golfers that are starting to arrive.

I have only taken a power cart on two occasions. Using a cart is a nice way to beat the humidity and temperature. The rest of the time I carried my clubs. On two of these days I was very glad to finish the 18th as the heat had beat me on those days. The rest of the time is was not much different from carrying in Edmonton.