To be fair, given the quality of golf courses available at The National Golf Club on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, there was no such thing as a poor choice.
To the untrained eye, when Maroochy River Golf Club opened midway through 2015, it was a largely barren landscape with firm fairways and greens that, like the great links courses of the world, exposed golfers to the elements and decision-making.
Geoff Ogilvy has quietly built an impressive portfolio of course design work across Australia and Asia. Now he and his firm of Ogilvy, Cocking and Mead have secured a large-scale project at one of golf’s well-known tournament courses to preserve its status as a sought-out venue for Major championships.
If you’re going to do something, do it right. These words still reverberate from my father’s many lectures growing up. He was a carpenter by profession, perfectionism supposedly one of the key tools of his trade. And while I can’t claim to have inherited any of his handiwork whatsoever, I did pick up his insistence Read more…
Australian Golf Digest
