Have they postponed/paused the proposed changes to holes 11 and 12? It does seem so, as the score card on the home page is unchanged.
When we were at the Silloth BUDA, the president/captain (I think his name was Peter Carey) mentioned that they were considering buying the land south of the 10th hole; although it's farmland today, the soil beneath is all sand.
Donal
I don't know that any real changes were ever considered or indeed required for 12 irrespective of what a gca might have come up with. The real problem areas have been the drive on the 11th and the drive on the 18th. They have cleared out a lot of the area to the left of the 11th fairway and I believe might make it semi or even fairway in order to encourage more drives away from the OOB on the right. However that is only for the short to medium hitters. The long hitters are still trying to cut the corner on the right and it is them that are spraying the ball into the caravan park.
On the 18th, everyone is hitting the fairway at an angle and the line of play depends on how far you can carry. Again the issue is the big hitters who just need to block one right and they end up carrying the rough and fence and end up on the road/houses. That's just the big hitters. The rest of us don't get beyond the rough.
I'm not sure what the current thinking on the 11th is but understand that straightening the 18th in some respect is being considered but not sure how they can do that without having to shift the 1st fairway over to the practice ground as Ben suggested.
Niall
ps. Peter Carey is the writer, it was Peter Cusack you were thinking of and who is still going strong from what I gather.