There is almost comfort in the monotony of making a trip you have made many times before. A feeling enhanced when you know there is an enjoyable experience at the end of your journey.
Comfort mixed with excitement is precisely what I get every time I jump in the car bound for The Vintage, a Greg Norman and Bob Harrison designed collaboration that has only improved since it opened as something of a brutal test to now sit at No.52 in the Top-100 courses in the country.
Make no mistake, the par-71 is no pushover and an examination of driving and short game skills particularly, but the Hunter Valley layout has been made more playable since it opened for play in the early 2000s.
