Course Design

To our delight, when we had our first flood, it was equivalent to the largest flood that had been recorded in the last 100 years, and the water went where it should have gone.

The tees and greens were not damaged, the residential lots abutting the site were not impacted upon nor were the residential lots within the site. So all the modeling proved to be worthwhile.

The selection of grass was an important factor, given that we wanted to use recycled water to water the fairways greens and tees. We were able to achieve this by digging 11 lakes. Using the earth from those lakes, we built up the height of the residential pads.

This also provided our water storage system, which meant that we did not need to rely on Melbourne water's main water supply.

The Santa Ana couch grass on the fairways and tees can survive with only watering four times per year… however when it was planted it required a constant dulliage of water for at least four weeks… in the worst drought years for a long time… we were able to plant the grass and get it to grow using the dulliaging process... and still not use all the water in the lakes. Which will hold us in good stead for the future, as we are able to adjust the water usage depending on the amount of water in the lakes.

We are also able to reuse the water by irrigating the fairways, greens and tees whereby 80% of the water finds its way back into the lakes and can be reused again and again.

Trees are strategically planted to provide the golfer with ambience and nonhazardous golf.

There have been 12,500 Casuarina She Oaks planted along the fairway edges on various holes. There have been 132,000 shrubs and small plants, together with another hundred and 150,000 indigenous natives along the creeks.

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