	{"id":79231,"date":"2023-12-17T04:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/?p=79231"},"modified":"2023-12-13T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T10:49:25","slug":"course-construction-complete-in-st-leonards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bellarinetimes\/news\/course-construction-complete-in-st-leonards\/","title":{"rendered":"Course construction complete in St Leonards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOLFERS across St Leonards and Indented Head now have access to a new and improved course after more than a decade of work.<\/p>\n<p>St Leonards Golf Club, located on 282-320 Ibbotson Street, has officially opened its new west course, providing the area with a fully functional quality nine-hole links layout with 27 separate tees in total.<\/p>\n<p>Club president Stephen Sproal said the development of the new course, which features three course variations (Dolphins, Seahorse and Pelicans), has been a continued mandate of the club for almost 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s absolutely fantastic,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re now accepting green fee players at the moment and with summer coming on we&#8217;re expecting one of our busiest summers in a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We currently have about 160 club members and the club continues to grow. We think the opening of our new course will allow us to reach new heights in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of this would be possible either without the assistance of the owner of the land, David Blanche.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Club vice-captain Daryl Gabriel said club volunteers, led by course superintendent Ben Davis, were responsible for most of the course&#8217;s construction, aside from contracted golf course landscapers installing the base of the course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The contractors shaped the course, but the club was responsible for filling in the greens, bunkers, maintaining grass, and building the mounds which came from the two dams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79247\" style=\"width: 533px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79247 \" src=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/IMG_9492-scaled.jpg?_t=1702464420\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/IMG_9492-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/IMG_9492-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/IMG_9492-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/IMG_9492-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/IMG_9492-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/IMG_9492-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/static.timesnewsgroup.com.au\/prod\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/12\/IMG_9492-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) St Leonards Golf Club vice-club captain Daryl Gabriel, president Stephen Sproal, and club captain Neil Fleming in front of the club&#8217;s pavilion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really great to see our members commit to the course&#8217;s construction, we&#8217;d have groups of three or four to start with, and that quickly grew into more than a dozen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It only adds to the significance of this project, and it makes it all that more special knowing we, ourselves, played a big part in getting this new course completed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The St Leonards Golf Club held its annual general meeting on Sunday morning, where Mr Sproal and club captain Neil Fleming touched on the club&#8217;s next steps in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll take on several, smaller projects such as the shaded sail area, finish the decking area, the barbecue area, a new greens fee office will be implemented, and number of cosmetic tasks on the course itself,&#8221; Mr Fleming said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things like that include sponsor signs, installing a couple more bunkers and maintaining the course in general through the purchasing of new equipment for the benefit of our golfers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regardless of that, we&#8217;ll also begin working with Golf Australia to get more members through the doors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about joining St Leonards Golf Club, head to stleonards.golf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOLFERS across St Leonards and Indented Head now have access to a new and improved course after more than a decade of work. 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