Greg Norman Designed Golf Course

Greg Norman Golf Course Design, adopts a design methodology, and in doing so, creates a design philosophy and character that is unique to each project. Learn more about Club Pelican Golf Course here.

Club Pelican has been voted as the no. 1 course on the Sunshine Coast and 4th in Queensland by "Golf Australia". Located in the stunning surrounds of Queensland's Sunshine Coast, it is one of the first ever Greg Norman designed golf courses in his home state.

Norman has designed an 18 hole, 6,359 metre golf course which is in harmony with the original landscape and has produced a championship layout winding it's way through open waterways, links type land and finishing with some spectacular holes through the tall Melaleuca trees.

Course management is the secret to success around this golf course. The Mackenzie style bunkering is stunning whilst being strategically placed to force a well-positioned tee shot. Once executed you will be rewarded, however teased with a number of options for your next approach shot.

Every hole at Club Pelican is pleasingly individual in appearance and challenge, a course that has many personalities depending upon the conditions. Many golf course critics claim that after playing a course and you can recall all of the holes, it is a great one. Club Pelican is one of those courses. 

The golf course is complimented by some off the finest facilities found anywhere in the world. Club Pelican offers world class practice facilities, golf tuition programs, Golf Shop and locker rooms, and not to forget one of the Sunshine Coast's finest Restaurants - T on Course.

Greg Norman Design Philosophy
(taken from the Greg Norman Designed Golf Course Website)

Greg Norman Golf Course Design adopts a design methodology, and in doing so, creates a design philosophy and character that is unique to each project. This process incorporates:

• An intimate knowledge of the site characteristics.
• An understanding of the developers objectives.
• A minimalist and least disturbance approach.
• A design that is challenging, playable and creates a memorable golf experience for players of all skill levels.
• An environmentally sensitive and sustainable design.
• The end vision in mind.

In applying this methodology, a design concept is created for each project that establishes individual character with an emphasis on aesthetics part of the landscape for generations.


From the Sharks Mouth:

"It typifies my design philosophy. I ask myself . . . ‘how do I feel when I walk off an extremely boring course unable to remember a single hole I just played?'

Anyone can build the hardest course in the world, or the most boring course in the world. That isn't a big deal. But to finish playing a course like Club Pelican and remember each shot of the 18 holes . . . that's what great design is all about.

The design must test each player, whether that player is male, female, high handicapper or a pro like me. The course must test all of us, and it must also produce a memorable day".