Port Royal Golf Course Review

Course Review and Comments

The course has been open for six months now, and the initial assessment has to be that a chance has been missed to create a good course. Given the vast sums of taxpayer money spent on it, to rebuild it and now to maintain it, one would have expected better. Bermuda's Premier is a golf fanatic, and it's only on his insistence that so much investment has been made in the course. When he retires, this year, it's difficult to see how his successor will justify (or want to justify) the money that will need to be spent to keep it in playable shape. The fairways in particular have a very poor soil base so the grass is extremely thin and is annihilated by the clubhead's impact, not so much taking a divot as vaporizing the grass altogether. How this can be repaired at reason able cost I don't. Bermuda's Tucker's Point has the same problem in many places, and they've not been able to cure it in 30 years- and it probably has a quarter of the usage PR has.