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MASTERPLANNING FOR EXISTING COURSES

  
 

This has become a major part of the CGD scope of work, as more and more private clubs and owners of resort or pay-for-play golf courses realize the need for upgrading, extending, or adjusting the planning of their existing terrains. The reasons for this vary, but can include: 
  • the need to remain competitive – for example, many private golf clubs are suffering as their time-strained members increasingly prefer playing the burgeoning number of truly excellent, ‘day-out’ destination golf venues.
  • encroaching residential subdivisions are creating ever-greater insurance problems as the one-time safety buffers are built upon.
  • there is an admission that recent golf equipment advances have made original strategic designs in the golf holes redundant, requiring rethinking of the golf course scope and planning.  

In all such masterplanning audits, the CGD group absorbs the full effect of the site problems and opportunities, reports on these, and makes studied visual and descriptive recommendations for course adjustments. Careful programming of the works are set down, designed to minimised disruption to playing conditions during all intended works’ episodes. Often the inclusion of a ‘spare hole’ is programmed, where nobody had ever conceived it, to facilitate the construction program.