Recent Activities

Palmerston Golf Resort, Nr Paphos, Cyprus

Southern Golf were appointed Main Contractors for the Nick Faldo Signature designed course in May 2007 and excellent progress has been made to date. The design has been created around a ‘desert’ style in order to conserve the quantity of water that would be required, resulting in a contrast between the irrigated areas to Tees, Fairways and Semi-Roughs, and the surrounding non irrigated areas of arid and native scrub planting and exposed limestone rock.

Tees, fairways and semi-roughs will be planted with Seashore Supreme Paspallum grasses to further aid the conservation of water along with creating an excellent playing surface.

Muscat Hills Golf & Country Club, Oman

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Southern Golf is currently constructing the first 18 hole green golf course in Oman, which is a ‘championship’ standard golf course designed by Paul Thomas of Dave Thomas Ltd and is set in a rocky terrain on the outskirts of Muscat, very near the airport, and will be completed in late spring 2009 and open for play in summer 2009.

The site was almost pure rock intersected by several waddis and required the blasting and ‘pecking’ of 650,000 m3 of rock to create the golf course and the import of 300,000 m3 of sweet ‘dune’ sand to cap all the grassed areas and is destined to be one of the really great golf courses in the Middle East.

The tees, fairways and semi rough have been planted with ‘Princess 77’ a hybrid seeded Bermuda grass rather than using stolons and the results using this seed have been so good that we have taken on the agency for Princess 77 for the Middle East and India.

There are several other new projects in planning in Oman, and Southern Golf have established an Omani company and are looking forward to participating in some of the future golf developments in the country.

Dun Laoghaire Golf Club, Ireland

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The New Dun Laoghaire Golf Club is a Hawtree designed 27 hole golf course near Dublin, and was opened for play to widespread acclaim last year.

The golf course was constructed to extremely high standards by Southern Golf and Roadbridge (a leading Irish Civils engineering company) in a locally set up Joint Venture, and the works included a drainage system designed to cope with a 1 in 50 year rain event and to allow play under almost any weather conditions. The drainage system also allows for the harvesting of water for the irrigation system. There is also a full cart path system and extensive water feature and water recycling system and major civils engineering works including road realignment and the construction of an underpass.

The course enjoys fantastic views across Bray to the Irish Sea and also of the adjacent Sugar Loaf Mountains and for those lucky enough to be members or guests of this famous old club, the newly constructed golf course will be a superb golfing experience.

Son Gual Golf, Palma Mallorca, Spain

Throughout the construction period of the project Southern Golf provided specialist golf resources directly to the developers/owners of Son Gual Golf to work closely and under the direction of Thomas Himmel, the Golf Course Designer.

These specialist resources included golf course shapers, management and supervision, specialist operators and golf course finishers. The result of this collaboration is an exceptionally high quality designed and constructed golf course that is being acclaimed by all who have visited and played the course.

Killeen Castle Golf Course, Ireland

Southern Golf are very proud to have constructed the Jack Nicklaus Signature Design Course in County Meath near to Dublin.

The golf course is built to the uppermost design and technical specification and set within a classic Irish country estate surrounded by mature native trees with magnificent backdrops of the Killeen Castle and the glorious countryside of County Meath.

Vilamoura Victoria.jpg Vilamoura Victoria Course, Algarve, Portugal

Construction of this high profile project began on 1st July 2002 and was successfully completed on 31st July 2003. The project was awarded to Southern Golf as a full turnkey project involving all aspects of work from site clearance, through to finishing and planting operations, including the construction of extensive water features and the installation of a 'state of the art' irrigation system.

The developers of the project are Lusotur Golfe, and the Victoria Course, which is being designed by Palmer Course Design Company, will be an addition to the four existing golf courses at Vilamoura.

Machynys Peninsula Golf Club, Wales

Southern Golf is very proud to be involved with the Nicklaus Design Organisation in the development of a Nicklaus designed 18 hole course on reclaimed and brownfield land in the Millennium Coastal Park, South Wales. The project will result in one of the most ecologically and environmentally friendly golf courses in Europe, and will underpin the redevelopment of the Llanelli area. The golf course has some superb views across the Loughor Estuary to the Gower Peninsula, and will incorporate SSSI areas, and newly developed 'wetlands' into the scheme.

St. Andrews Bay, Scotland

Construction is now complete on this 36 hole project at Kingask just along the coast from St Andrews.

The first 18 holes to be completed was designed by Denis Griffiths and Associates in association with Sam Torrance, and was open for play in September 2001. The second 18 holes was again designed by Denis Griffiths & Associates, this time in association with Bruce Devlin, and opened in September 2002.

Southern Golf have carried out all elements of this project in-house, offering a complete turn-key package including bulk earthworks, lake construction, golf course shaping, drainage, golf features construction, full irrigation installation, cultivation and seeding, civil engineering and have also provided the client with a grow-in maintenance service up until projected opening dates.

Gray Bear GC, Tale, Slovakia

Construction of the 1st 18 hole golf course in Slovakia is now complete with the successful opening of The Gray Bear Golf Club at Tale in August 2002. The course is located in the Lower Tatrus Mountains, set within an existing ski resort area amongst established Norway spruce forests. Southern Golf provided management, shaping, finishing and grow-in specialists to assist the client with the construction of the Bob Walton designed course.

Aphrodite Hills, Cyprus

Southern Golf were contracted by Cybarco, the principal contractor, to carry out the management and shaping of the golf course at Aphrodite Hills, and also to provide other key specialist golf services on this spectacular Cabell Robinson designed 18 hole golf course, driving range and academy. Planting of fairways commenced at Aphrodite in June 2001 and the course is due to open in November 2002.

Set amongst native olive and carob trees overlooking the Mediterranean Sea there cannot be many better golf sites in Europe.

Loch Lomond, Scotland

Southern Golf successfully completed the reconstruction of all 18 greens at the prestigious Loch Lomond Golf Club during the winter period, November 2000 through to February 2001. Working closely with Loch Lomond Greens Superintendent, Ken Siems and his staff, a combination of meticulous planning and a well organised workforce enabled us to achieve fantastic results in difficult weather conditions with the greens ready for opening on schedule for 1st April 2001.