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Victoria was a once in a lifetime experience, designed during Donald Steel & company days. In a setting as breathtaking as any in the world, the challenge was to produce a course worthy of the glory of its surroundings. Golf gives access to some of the most beautiful places and, in the last twenty or thirty years, just about every landscape has been converted to accommodate new places to play. Swamps have been drained, mountains moved and deserts irrigated. This involves massive feats of engineering and open-ended budgets but Victoria was joyously different. It was an exercise in the old-fashioned way, using the land and working with nature at a tiny fraction of the cost.
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A contractor from the UK started the local machine operators off with instruction with whatever machinery was available locally but the real heroes were an army of chosen recruits under the skilful eye of Tony Whitham who ensured that the course was largely handmade. Materials for the greens were dredged from rivers, drainage trenches were dug and finished more by hand than by machine. The planting of sprigs to grass the Bermuda fairways was another vital manual input.
With most new courses, playing areas are invariably pre-determined with precise boundaries and access roads marked. Clubhouse positions invariably pick themselves. At Victoria, options were far more wide ranging although much clearance work was necessary before hard decisions could be made. From the beginning, the need for housing development was established but it was soon obvious that the ideal locations for