By Jim Tucker
An engaging six-hole pitch-and-putt layout at Keperra Country Golf Club shows how strongly the Brisbane club has been revived after last year’s floods.
When the additional offering opens on Friday, it will be a salute to the smart use of space, design and how to appeal to all levels of golfer.
Keperra Country Golf Club General Manager Gavin Lawrence is an industry veteran and re-imagined something different for the club’s tired practice fairway.
The big advantage immediately was the narrow, flat, 200-metre-long area being in a prime location as you drive through the gates of the popular club.
Eyes now pop when members and visitors see mounded greens, flags, raised tee blocks and a range of holes from 40m to 60m.
Best of all, the whole process took just six months after course designer David Burrup detailed the layout.
“We’re not calling it a short course. It’s…
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