TEE BOX 12 The Royal Sydney Golf Club in Australia has opened its newly named Bay course following a comprehensive renovation by Hanse Golf Design. Greens and bunkers have been rebuilt, new drainage, irrigation and SubAir systems have been installed, and an extensive tree and landscape management programme has been executed. Course superintendent Adam Marchant said: “Gil’s design has created many new areas of interest on the course. There’s the sharp hook at the approach to the seventh green, the Boomerang green on the eleventh and the new bunker complex on the inside of the dogleg on eighteen. Gil’s green contouring gives us plenty of options to vary the challenge for golfers with our pin placements. “Moving from our old routing – which had the ninth hole at the far end of the property – to a ‘two loops of nine’ routing presents fun options for nine-hole play, or even composite courses with our nine-hole Centenary course.” Crucial to the project was work relating to trees and native plants, with Harley Kruse developing a landscape plan that has been implemented in conjunction with the Hanse renovation. “Now, we have a beautiful heathland links completely comprised of natives that are endemic to the area,” said Marchant. “In quadrupling our floral diversity, we have also been able to provide yearround flowering that will add to the beauty and interest of the course.” Read an extensive report on the GCA website, covering both the renovation and the club’s landscape and environmental work. Royal Sydney opens Bay course Photo:The Royal Sydney Golf Club Image: Hanse Golf Design
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