Course Updates
RACV ROYAL PINES ON TARGET FOR AUSTRALIAN PGA
By Bruce Young
Whether it has been the collective
‘touching of wood’ by those involved
or perhaps even divine intervention,
the redesign of the initial nine holes
of the RACV Royal Pines tournament
layout on the Gold Coast is on
schedule, almost to the minute.
The project required everything to
go right if it was to be completed
within the very narrow time frame
available between the finish of the
Volvik RACV Masters in February and
the Australian PGA Championship in
December and in most cases it has.
The South East Queensland region
received very little rain in the first
half of 2014 and while it has been a
cause of real concern for the farming
community, conditions could not
have been better to complete the
bulk earthworks, soil treatment,
drainage, irrigation, shaping and
grassing phases of the Royal Pines
revamp.
Those works essentially involved the
complete re-design and re-shapin