GREENS
Type of grass - 10/20 bent & Crenshaw bent
Height of cut - 2.6 mm
Speed/stimpmeter reading - Tuesday 11.6 aiming to get 12.0 by Thursday
FAIRWAYS
Type of grass - Santa Ana Couch
Height of cut - 11 ½ mm
General width and contouring - quite narrow due to fairway bunkering however it will play as if they were wide due to lack of rough
TEES / COLLARS
Type of grass - Santa Ana Couch (tees)
Height of cut - 8 mm
ROUGH
Type of grass - Santa Ana Couch (semi rough),
fescue & paramatta & santa ana couch (rough)
Height of cut - semi - 25 mm
- intermediate - n/a
- rough - due to severe drought there is very little rough
WEATHER
Weather in advance - very dry before tournament week,
Forecast for tournament - chance of showers and thunderstorms.
COURSE
Opened - 1944
Course designer - Berriman re-designed by Newton, Grant & Spencer in 1997
General playability - Tree lined course very well bunkered
Undulating / flat - Flat
Tree lined / exposed - Tree lined
Many / few water hazards - Only water hazard in play is on hole 15 & 17
OTHER FEATURES
Greens are quite undulated with plenty of run off areas around them.
