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Ratho Farm Golf Links is located in scenic countryside on the outskirts of Bothwell in the Central Highlands of Tasmania and provides 18 holes of challenging inland links-style golf. The course plays to a par of 70 and measures approximately 5,651 yards from the white tees. Australian architects Crafter & Mogford recently completed four new holes (15-18), and Ratho Farm Golf Links now plays as an 18-hole course after previously playing just 12 holes. In keeping with the original course design, several quirky features found on the original holes were reinstated, including bunkers and hazards such as hedges, vegetable gardens, rock walls and sheep yards all in play.

The Ratho Farm Golf Links dates from 1822, and is Australia's oldest golf course, and the oldest remaining course outside of Scotland. The Ratho Farm Golf Links were first laid out and enjoyed by the pioneering Reid family who emigrated from Leith in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1822 and set up Ratho on the outskirts of Bothwell. The first game of golf in Tasmania, and among the earliest games of golf in Australia, was played in Bothwell. Ratho Farm Golf Links combines a quirky historic links with a gorgeous rustic setting and a surprisingly strategic layout, with Mogford and Crafter adding some testing modern holes to perfectly complement the heritage sections of the course.