“My idea when I was asked by the owners of the land to put a design together, I thought there was an opportunity to do something different from what was the staple offering within the county.
“An inland links-style, and we have to use all three words, otherwise I have absolutely everybody jumping all over me! It is not a links course, it’s an inland links-style course. That worked well, especially with my clients’ desire to make a profitable construction with the use of the inert infill.
“From a biodiversity perspective, we were able to regenerate it into a golf course. That was something that worked into our game plan, but from a design perspective, I wanted to lay something down that I felt was a challenge for players and playable for your average player.
“It’s such a big expanse and I actually used to love it out there, because you dream and (you think) ‘Wow one day, this is going to be a golf course’. I've had the double-wow of now it's going to be (the host of) the PGA Professional Championship.”
(Picture: Walker seated furthest left)