Interviews

Oakmont: An interview with Gil Hanse

With the 2025 US Open arriving at Oakmont, Richard Humphreys spoke with the architect, who renovated the course in 2023, about what to expect

Martin Ebert: Design journey

With a portfolio that includes eight of the ten Open venues, Mackenzie & Ebert occupies an enviable position in the golf design industry. Adam Lawrence spoke with principal Martin Ebert to learn how they got there

Designs for the big screen

Chad Goetz and Agustin Piza discuss their design decisions for the virtual holes that featured in the first season of TGL

Bob Harrison: Wizard of Oz

The Australian designer has had a long career and, like many of his countrymen, has spent much of it away from home. Adam Lawrence listened to his tales from the road

Ben Cowan-Dewar: Shock and awe

Golf development firm Cabot now has properties in six countries. Richard Humphreys speaks with co-founder and CEO Ben Cowan-Dewar about what makes a great site, selection of golf course architects, and more

Team building

Turfgrass has launched its US arm with the appointment of John Lawrence, Adam Moeller and Brad Owen. Richard Humphreys speaks with them, Turfgrass founder John Clarkin and director of agronomy Julian Mooney to find out more

Brian Curley: Life of Brian

The designer has surely clocked up more air miles than anyone else in the business. Adam Lawrence caught up with him in between flights to discuss his career and his new venture with Jim Wagner

Oakmont: An interview with Gil Hanse

With the 2025 US Open arriving at Oakmont, Richard Humphreys spoke with the architect, who renovated the course in 2023, about what to expect

Martin Ebert: Design journey

With a portfolio that includes eight of the ten Open venues, Mackenzie & Ebert occupies an enviable position in the golf design industry. Adam Lawrence spoke with principal Martin Ebert to learn how they got there

Designs for the big screen

Chad Goetz and Agustin Piza discuss their design decisions for the virtual holes that featured in the first season of TGL

Bob Harrison: Wizard of Oz

The Australian designer has had a long career and, like many of his countrymen, has spent much of it away from home. Adam Lawrence listened to his tales from the road

Ben Cowan-Dewar: Shock and awe

Golf development firm Cabot now has properties in six countries. Richard Humphreys speaks with co-founder and CEO Ben Cowan-Dewar about what makes a great site, selection of golf course architects, and more

Team building

Turfgrass has launched its US arm with the appointment of John Lawrence, Adam Moeller and Brad Owen. Richard Humphreys speaks with them, Turfgrass founder John Clarkin and director of agronomy Julian Mooney to find out more

Brian Curley: Life of Brian

The designer has surely clocked up more air miles than anyone else in the business. Adam Lawrence caught up with him in between flights to discuss his career and his new venture with Jim Wagner

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Robe Golf Club extends course with six new holes

Robe Golf Club in South Australia has added six new holes to extend its course to a full eighteen.

The club collaborated with golf course design firm Crafter + Mogford Golf Strategies and the District Council of Robe on the expansion project.

The course originally consisted of fourteen holes. To help fund the expansion, two holes were closed in 2015 so the land could be rezoned for residential development, which was then topped up with some funding from the Federal Government.

The new holes – the seventh through to the twelfth – are routed within an area which follows the natural contouring of the dunes, along the coast.

Behind the seventh green there is a Second World War radar hut that has been retained and restored as part of the project.

“The eighth has an elevated fairway, about 23 metres above sea level, situated on top of a dune, and plays east to west,” said Scott Fennell, president of Robe Golf Club. “It plays with two clubs into the wind – there are lots of strong winds coming in from the Southern Ocean. As you turn around and play the ninth you’ve got two clubs behind you.”

Hole ten is a short par four that has a green guarded by two bunkers at the front left, with one more at the back. The eleventh is the longest hole on the course at 500 yards. Between these two holes, retained vegetation has been strengthened through revegetation plantings.

The longest hole is quickly followed by the shortest – the twelfth – which has been built on a plot of land between two sites marked as a future residential zone.

Construction of the new holes was completed in December 2018, with Malcolm Williams overseeing shaping.

The club is now completing some minor works on the course while the new holes grow in ahead of opening them for play in November.

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    Robe Golf Club in South Australia has extended its course to 18 holes

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    Crafter + Mogford Golf Strategies designed six new holes

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    Construction of the new holes was completed in December 2018

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    A view from the new eighth hole, back towards the town of Robe

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    The tenth and eleventh fairways

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    The new holes are growing in ahead of a November reopening

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