I played socially at Indro for the first time in about 8 months today on the red and gold nines (West course). Despite initially being pissed off that I hadn’t been told about the fact the course was being renovated when I booked it was interesting to play the redesigned course. While always a pleasant course in good condition, I felt the old track was quite boring with a paucity of fairway bunkering and only the elevation changes adding interest.

The new holes are quite different with a lot of new fairway bunkering, some of which is very penal, to add strategy and water coming in play on a few holes now. I played off the tips in a gusty 20kt SE and one concern may be that much of this bunkering may not come into play off the whites on a calm day but I will reserve judgement on that till I’ve played the whites. The red 9th is a fabulous risk-reward hole and a daunting driving hole and red 8th, gold 3rd, 7th and 9th are challenging holes. The green complexes and bunkering are superb and much more interesting than the old holes. Although the routing seems a little strange with some long walks between holes I think this is because the work is still incomplete as there appeared to still be at least one temp par three on the red nine.

Do any members / regulars know when the work is expected to be finished and how the final routing will work?

Additionally are there plans to remodel the green and blue nines (although I think the blue is fine as is and was formally my favourite nine in terms of design)? All in all it looks like Ross Watson has done some good work out there despite me shooting +10!