DUNCAN Andrews and his son, Cameron, homeowners of the Dunes and thirteenth Seashore, are constructing a brand new 10-hole golf course on the St Andrews Brewery website on the Mornington Peninsula.
The land concerned is 36 hectares or 90 acres, on that are the brewery, an outdated racetrack, a part of the Freedman Bros racing stables, an apple orchard, and most significantly stunning sand dunes. Supreme land for golf.
“The course will probably be known as Barrier Run reflecting the apparent racing heritage of the positioning,” Duncan Andrews instructed Inside Golf.
On the southern finish of the Mornington Peninsula, the land abuts Moonah Hyperlinks golf course and can be very near each The Dunes Golf Hyperlinks, St Andrews Seashore and The Nationwide Golf Membership.
Andrews stated constructing a 10-hole course was a nod to the altering face of the sport.
“Golf is altering, and golfers more and more need ‘golf pleasure’, greater than taking part in on some tough championship golf course.
“They need golf which is enjoyable.”
The nine- gap Cups course at The Dunes is proof of this. The Cups could be very well-liked and though not a protracted course, it nonetheless has many fabulous golf holes.
“Barrier Run seeks to create one thing just like The Cups, specifically, stunning atmosphere and a ‘wow issue’ with out it being overly tough,” Andrews stated.
“Golfers are more and more time poor and 10 holes is good – two hours most. Barrier Run meets these necessities because it winds via stunning sand dunes, an apple orchard and an outdated racetrack.”
A ten-hole course is deliberate for the St Andrews Brewery website on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.
At current The Dunes, who will handle Barrier Run, goes via the lengthy and concerned approval course of with the authorities. Development is predicted to start in 2026 and the course open for play in 2027.
The 92-acre website was as soon as the house of horse racing legends and boasts a brewery and large-scale orchard and shortly a golf course.
Within the mid-2000s the property was owned by the well-known Freedman horse racing household and housed as much as 80 thoroughbred horses with its grassed racetrack, earlier than they bought in 2015 to the present homeowners. Throughout the time it was owned by the Freedman’s, 100 group-one winners known as the stables dwelling, together with a number of Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Golden Slipper champions, amongst them Makybe Diva, the winner of a Cox Plate and three successive Melbourne Cups in 2003, 2004 and 2005, Mummify, a horse with 5 group one victories to his credit score, together with a Newmarket Handicap, and Alinghi, a four-time group one winner and extremely profitable broodmare submit her racing profession.
The property is about an hour’s drive from Melbourne’s CBD and is close to the Moonah Hyperlinks Golf Course, Gunnamatta Surf Seashore and Peninsula Scorching Springs.
