La Nina has wreaked havoc right along the east coast of Australia at different times during 2022.
Record rainfalls leading to widespread flooding across a host of regions were encountered from as far afield as NSW’s south coast and Queensland’s Fraser Coast, as well as most places in between. Few, if any, east coast golf courses escaped the deluge with some being forced to close for weeks on end to allow floodwater to subside and clean-up work to take place.
Even Bribie Island Golf Club – a 70-minute drive north of Brisbane’s CBD – unbelievably had to close as a river of floodwater cut through the course. I say “unbelievably” because this par-72 lies entirely on a seemingly endless profile of fine sand, which is not surprising given most of the 360 islands of Moreton Bay are all sand. Flooding on natural surfaces on any of these islands
