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The reconstruction will require bulk earthworks,
fill and excavation required to shape the new
fairways / greens.
“I think it’s going to be a great facility for
the northside of Brisbane. There’s a great
opportunity for us now and we’ve engaged a
course designer who’s built some of the top 50
courses in Australia,” he told the courier mail
last year.
“(The resumption) had a huge impact upon our
club.
“As soon as the Main Roads fence went up…that
was a very tough time for our golf club.”
CQG Consulting ecologists have been assigned
to handle the ecology of the new course. The
agency has prepared findings, recommended
management strategies and rehabilitation areas
(totalling 54,478sqm) to meet the ecological value
objective. Staging of the new golf course design
prioritises the areas of greatest change or new
holes are created with current unutilised land.
The club will schedule an information night late
next month in order to inform members and
to hear from James Wilcher first-hand about
his final ‘tweaks’ to the course design and what
members can expect to see over the coming
months.
SPRING 2018
I GMAQ
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