There was a time not that long ago when golfers could have been forgiven for thinking there was little chance of any new links courses being built around the Australian coastline.
Then the post-2000 course building boom kicked in and world class links layouts opened for play in Tasmania (Barnbougle Dunes and Lost Farm) and Victoria (The National, Thirteenth Beach and Moonah Links). Western Australia’s offering came soon after, in 2005, with the launch of The Cut.
Laid on and around sand dunes at Port Bouvard, just south of Mandurah and a leisurely 50-minute drive from Perth’s southern suburbs, The Cut is the centrepiece of a massive residential development wedged between the Indian Ocean and the picturesque Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary.
In the late 1980’s, scientists discovered the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary
