Attractive, interesting greens are at the heart of quality golf course design.
Greens should be your standout feature.
One of the keys to quality golf course design, is green site variety and knowing when to get creative with your green contours and when to ‘quieten’ things down.
In many ways, understated greens are the hardest to build. Modern golf, in particular, tends to feature a lot of ‘look-at-me’ course architecture, and it’s important to find the right balance between creative or “cool” design features, and softer or “quieter” elements.
When you discover an amazing golf hole, it’s important to understand that sometimes all the hole needs is a simple green.
Though proud of more adventurous greens that I have designed, like 6 and 10 at Cape Wickham and 1/8 at The Farm, among my favourite holes are those with more subtle greens – such as 2, 4 and 7 at The Farm and 5, 13 and 18 at Cape Wickham.
Attractive, fun and interesting greens are at the heart of quality golf course design.
“A steeper version of the previous fairway, Cape Wickham’s 10th falls towards a green with multiple segments and where the pin position will dictate the ideal line in. Yet the architects haven’t been cruel, shaping the surrounding contours to help feed balls to any portion of the green.”
Australian Golf Digest
“The holes (at The Farm) are eminently playable with extensive teeing areas providing extensive options regardless of ability.
An epic set of greens are punctuated by the natural double green on holes one and eight which is the biggest putting surface in the southern hemisphere.”
GOLF Magazine
"Arguably the best hole on King Island, the last at Cape Wickham wraps around Victoria Cove (which is an integral part of the course – you may play from its shore) and provides an easier angle to the green the closer one hugs the right edge of the fairway in what is a grandstand finish.”
Australian Golf Digest
