It will go down as one of the strangest weeks in the history of Australian golf.

The 2012 Australian PGA Championship, and one of the most prestigous events on the Australasian Tour schedule will be remembered more not for the winner but the goings on off the Coolum resort course.

The week began with players being greeted by a 25-foot high roaring dinosaur named Jeff located at the back of the ninth hole.

Clive Palmer (right) and JFKs nephew, Stephen Smith at the dedication ceremony. (Photo – Brisbane Courier Mail).

But it wasn’t Jeff making all the noise but the new owner of the resort, Clive Palmer and his dispute with officials of the Tour as to the future location of the event.

Palmer appeared at odds not only over Jeff the dinosaur but Titanic II signage promoting Palmer’s plan of placing a full-scale replica of the ill-fated White Star liner all about the Sunshine Coast course.

Australian PGA officials didn’t take too kindly to Palmer and with the Tour’s CEO, Brian Thornton declaring after 11 straight years the event would never return to Coolum.

Howevere Palmer is confident an impasse has ended and is now hopeful the Tour will be back to Coolum in 2013.

“I’m very confident the PGA will be here for the next five years,” said Palmer ahead of the final round.

“I’m sure that will be the case. I’m sure the PGA board knows this is a great place for players, a great place for the whole tourament, and where else can you do?  Sure, there have been changes, and change is a good thing.

“We have Jeff the dinosaur.  His picture has been all around the world.  And isn’t that good for golf?  Maybe golf has been a little bit mundane.  By having a dinosaur here, we’ve created more interest in golf. That’s not a bad thing.

“They should come here and stay here because of the merits of the place.  We’re offering them a lot more than any other golf course in Australia.  I’m sure of that.”

Palmer’s offerings include not only Jeff the living, breathing, roaring dinosaur and the full-size model of the Titanic but he’s dedicated the ninth hole and it’s water hazard in memory of slain former U.S. President, John F. Kennedy.

He’s renamed the hazard – The John F. Kennedy Lake for World Peace. 

In fact, Palmer flew out to Australia Stephen Smith. JFKs nephew and invited Brian Kennedy, a 15th cousin of the former US President, who was born and raised in Bundaberg in Queensland, to the dedication ceremony.

However with the Australasian PGA more than likely to move the tournament Palmer is considering staging a tournament of his own.

“I don’t think we’d want to upset the PGA as they’re nice people but we’d probably have to have some sort of tournament here for the people living on the Sunshine Coast,” said Palmer to reporters.

But wait there’s more to come, as Palmer outlined.

“We’ve got a dinosaur nursery coming up where little dinosaurs will be hatched from their eggs and you’ll slowly watch them grow ,”said Palmer.

“And they’ll be nestled in their mother’s arms and then there’ll be baby dinosaurs in the trees coming out of eggs and slowly flying to be eaten by a pterodactyl as it comes down.

“There’ll be all sorts of wonderful things happening and kids will be able to come.”

Palmer  also said to expect another “world” announcement later this week.