[Adam Lawrence]

I've just come back from a trip to Abu Dhabi, where I visited the massive Saadiyat Island development.

There are going to be two golf courses on Saadiyat - the first, which is almost ready to open, has been done by Gary Player's company. The second, which is an RTJ2 project, is among the salt flats on the edge of the island. Essentially, they've used lots of dredged marine fill to create elevated fairway pads, separated by the flats. These creeks will be dry at low tide, full of water when the tide is in.

I can't think of another example where a course has been created in a salt marsh in this way. Obviously Brancaster is like this naturally, but has anyone come across a constructed project of this kind?

Cheers

Adam

[Bill_McBride]

Adam, some of the Low Country courses in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina play through and along salt marshes in the tidal areas.  Most Florida marsh courses are fresh water.

Did they use paspallum grass in Abu Dhabi?

[Brad Tufts]

Cape Arundel is sort-of in this category....

[Kalen Braley]

Adam,

WingPointe Golf Course in SLC Utah was built in this fashion, although its usually dry most of the year except winter/spring.

P.S.  On a side note, the drive from SLC to Wendover in the later winter/early spring is always kinda funky because thousands of square miles of the old Lake Bonneville are flooded from the winter runoff.  And when driving at night it feels like you are driving across a massive ocean and is kind of spooky.  Its the longest stretch of highway I know of that is completely flat and dead straight.

[Bill_McBride]

Adam,

WingPointe Golf Course in SLC Utah was built in this fashion, although its usually dry most of the year except winter/spring.

P.S.  On a side note, the drive from SLC to Wendover in the later winter/early spring is always kinda funky because thousands of square miles of the old Lake Bonneville are flooded from the winter runoff.  And when driving at night it feels like you are driving across a massive ocean and is kind of spooky.  Its the longest stretch of highway I know of that is completely flat and dead straight.

"...flat and dead straight."

Sort of like Utah? 

[Kalen Braley]

Adam,

WingPointe Golf Course in SLC Utah was built in this fashion, although its usually dry most of the year except winter/spring.

P.S.  On a side note, the drive from SLC to Wendover in the later winter/early spring is always kinda funky because thousands of square miles of the old Lake Bonneville are flooded from the winter runoff.  And when driving at night it feels like you are driving across a massive ocean and is kind of spooky.  Its the longest stretch of highway I know of that is completely flat and dead straight.

"...flat and dead straight."

Sort of like Utah? 

Well actually not entirely true....my home is at an elevation of about 4200 ft and within a 45 minute drive I can be well over 10,000 feet so I wouldn't exactly call that "flat".  Unless there is some sort of double meaning here that I'm probably missing!!   

[Kyle Henderson]

The embattled Sharp Park gold course was paritially built in salt marshes and now plays habitat to endangered fresh water species. Ironically, now some wish to close the course to protect those very same animals.

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