With the prolonged drought threatening their famed surfaces, three of Melbourne’s iconic sandbelt golf clubs are moving fast to ensure their future water supply. Royal Melbourne and Victoria, two of the hardest hit clubs in recent times, have constructed dams during the past growing season, while Metropolitan Golf Club is about to expand its existing storage capacity and install a reverse osmosis unit. For superintendents Jim Porter (Royal Melbourne), Ian Todd (Victoria) and Richard Forsyth (Metropolitan), the past two summers have been among the most stressful they have had to endure, however they will all be able to sleep a little easier heading into this winter with the knowledge that they have taken steps to secure a more sustainable future. Of all the sandbelt giants, Royal Melbourne has personified the impact the drought has had on golf. Reliant on potable water to supplement their low yielding bores, Australia’s most famous golf club this year had to resort to carting in one megalitre of Class A recycled water a week to keep the course alive.
With the Recycled Water Scheme for councils and industries in the sandbelt region shelved for the time being, golf courses have been forced into making their own investigations to secure water for the future.
In Royal Melbourne’s case, continuing to search for additional bore water was deemed
to be too hit and miss, while a joint investigation  READ ON BY ATTACHEMNT BELOW 

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