Golf Course Communities & Design

To create housing developments that are to exist and compliment a golf course its Imperative that you understand golf, basic course design, golf club management and the needs and wants of the golfing members.

Brian Brown, the Managing Director of Global Lifestyle Developments is a single figure handicap golfer and has been for most of his playing career. He has worked in pro shops, played on numerous courses in Australia and overseas and dealt with a number of golf club boards and members.

Brian has worked with golf course designers and developers such as John Bourke from Sportscape Australia and New Zealand, Richard Chamberlain from RCGD, Ian Baker-Finch from Golf by Design and Greg Norman from Greg Norman Golf Course Design.

Brians experience as a golfer, a golf club member, a property developer, in dealing with golf course designers as well as golf club members and golf club boards allows him to appreciate and understand the requirements of all involved and how best to develop a golf course community that compliments the golf course and golf club.  

 

 

A nine-hole par-three golf course designed by arguably Australia’s most recognised former professional golfer, Greg Norman, has been given the green light to go ahead in Gledswood Hills

Developers Sekisui House announced the $11 million project located in The Hermitage estate recently received development approval.

Construction on the course – which will also include a driving range and practice facilities – is expected to begin in the next few months and will be complete by early 2018.

Mr Norman said he was excited to be involved with the project.

“Together we will be delivering a world-class golf course in Sydney,” he said.

“The Hermitage estate is the idyllic location to showcase my unique and wholly sustainable golf course designs while providing award-winning facilities for the residents and the local community.

“I have a deep-rooted passion for continuing to develop and support the game of golf in Australia.

“This project will provide a wonderfully unique golfing experience in a growth corridor of NSW.”

Sekisui House chief executive Toru Abe said the course was a major win for the Macarthur region.

“The partnership with Mr Norman to create a world-class golfing experience at The Hermitage, is not just a reflection of our commitment to our valued customers, but also a reflection of our corporate philosophy,” he said.

“We believe that modern life can share an affinity with the land, appreciating natural open green spaces to help raise the quality of life for many Australians for generations to come.”

There are also plans to have an 18-golf course located within the estate.

 

Shortland Bonanza

Newcastle Herald 29 Jun, 2010 04:00 AM

MEMBERS of Shortland Waters have emphatically given the golf club the green light to undertake a multimillion-dollar redevelopment of the course.
All 187 members who attended the meeting last Thursday voted in favour of the redevelopment, which will boost the coffers of the club by more than $20 million.

Under the proposal Wollongong-based company Chamber Developments will build 300 aged care units ranging from self-contained, over-55 properties right through to hospice facilities.

Six of the current holes will be used for the age care facilities, but they will be replaced on adjoining land which is owned by Newcastle City Council.

Shortland Waters has first option to purchase that land.

Shortland Waters’ clubhouse will also be rebuilt with a conference centre and a 60-room motel added.

Chamber Developments will own the motel on a strata basis, and the club retains full ownership of the golf course.

Plans for the redevelopment have been in the pipeline for the past nine months and the club received 15 applications when the development was put out to tender.

It will be the biggest redevelopment in the history of Shortland Waters since it moved from Mayfield to the current site in 1936.

Shortland Waters secretary manager Ray Duncan said the injection of funds from the redevelopment should ensure the future of the club in tough economic times.

“The development is probably worth in excess of $20 million for the club,” Duncan said.

“The whole development with the senior living would be much more than that, I imagine in the hundreds of millions.

“With the way it’s being done with the conferencing centre, it’s giving us more streams of income that we didn’t have.

“‘It’s a fantastic deal for us because we’re struggling here at the moment like all small clubs are if they’re golf clubs or otherwise. We’ll get a cash payment at the end which will clear our debt.”

Duncan said it was imperative that the six holes were replaced before work started on the aged-care facilities.

This will avoid a situation like the Oaks Country and Golf Club, which is closing in July for 16 months while redevelopment is completed.

“The six holes will be replaced before the work starts on the six holes we’re losing, so the disruption should be minimal to the golf course,” he said.

“In our agreement with them they must provide the six holes before they can do anything with the land and the clubhouse as well.”

Chamber Developments is now seeking a site capability certificate before they can receive development application approval.

 

Port Macquarie News 22nd February 1999