RACV Royal Pines Green-Gold combination course: Tomojiro Maruyama (1990), redesigned by Graham Marsh (2015). Par 72, 7,345 yards. Prima Thammaraks won the 2017 Australian Ladies Masters here with 213 (−6).
RACV Royal Pines Green-Gold combination course, on the record
RACV Royal Pines Green-Gold combination course: Tomojiro Maruyama (1990), redesigned by Graham Marsh (2015). Par 72, 7,345 yards. Prima Thammaraks won the 2017 Australian Ladies Masters here with 213 (−6).
Updated October 24, 2026
Club
RACV Royal Pines Resort
Where
Benowa, Queensland, Australia
Opened
1990
Design
Tomojiro Maruyama (1990) · redesigned by Graham Marsh (2015)
Graham Marsh's 2015 renovation enlarged strategic water hazards and added high-lipped bunkering to a course once called a 'bomber's paradise' off the tee.
Graham Marsh said the old layout gave 2.2 hectares to shallow, out-of-play bunkers; his 2014-15 redesign cut that to 0.9 ha to reward ball-strikers over long hitters.
The 172 m par-3 16th, the redesign's showpiece, has one of the most distinctively tiered greens on the course above a steep front bank and a pond; a one-off A$1 million prize was offered for an ace there in the 2015 PGA final round.
Opened in 1990 as a 27-hole Tomojiro Maruyama resort course, its nines were renamed Aroona, Binnowee and Wangara, then returned to Gold, Green and Blue after RACV bought it in 2008; the tournament course is Green plus Gold.
The course sits on an almost pancake-flat parkland site next to the Nerang River, where the flow of the waterways left Marsh little room to re-route fairways.
Marsh replaced the 18th's flat, lipless bunkers and pancake green with a narrow raised green with 8-10 ft drops on its sides and deep pots; defending champion Greg Chalmers said he would not like to play it seven times.
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.