Sixteen modules. A method, not a stroll. Every module can be included or excluded in the engagement letter. This is the page that tells a serious client the review is structured.
⌁ Technical scope
Sixteen modules. A method, not a stroll. Filter modules 16 of 16 modules Module A Brief, market and programme Show Is the design answering the brief that was actually written — public, private, resort, real-estate driver, academy, night-golf, 9 / 18 / 27? Is the course the right size for the land and the market, or a championship costume on a mid-handicap body? Does the programme (practice, short game, teaching tees, maintenance complex) exist on the plan or only in the brochure? Module B Site reading Show Landform, watersheds, soils, rock, water table, flood levels, prevailing wind, monsoon behaviour. Existing vegetation worth keeping. Ridges and valleys the routing should have used and did not. Access, power, raw water, effluent water — and whether the irrigation source is real. Statutory overlays: forest, CRZ, flood plain, heritage, flight path, high-tension lines. Module C Routing Show Sequence of holes, variety of length and direction, returning nines, walkability versus cart dependence. Blind shots: intentional and justified, or accidental and dangerous. Transition quality between green and next tee. Dead walks. Practice ground conflicting with opening or closing holes. Ability to close a hole for maintenance without collapsing the round. Module D Safety and the real-estate interfaceWHERE INDIAN TOWNSHIP PROJECTS MOST OFTEN FAIL Hide Safety envelopes from tee, landing zone and green to housing, roads, pools, playgrounds and the practice range. Effect of slope, wind, bunker aiming and tree belts on the real flight of a mishit. Whether hazards steer play away from people, or invite it toward them. View corridors sold to villa buyers versus the golf strategy those views require. Cart-path and boundary-fence logic. Recovery areas that dump balls into gardens. Future-proofing: what happens when the next phase of housing is built closer than the brochure currently shows. Module E Strategy and playability Show Options for the scratch player and a fair route for the high handicap. Forced carries counted and justified. Width where width is the strategy; penalty where penalty is earned. Green-to-tee variety so the course does not play as eighteen versions of one idea. Short par-4s and reachable par-5s — present, or missing. Whether the course will still be pleasant on a windy afternoon in May, not only on a still morning in February. Module F Tees Show Number of teeing grounds, usable area, orientation, visibility of the landing zone. Forward tees that are not an afterthought. Women’s and junior tees that preserve the hole’s idea. Surface drainage, shade, and how the tee bank meets the walk-on. Module G Fairways and landing zones Show Landing-zone width at the distances the market actually hits, not the distances on the scorecard. Fairway contour: holding, kicking, draining. Primary rough and intermediate cut — widths that operations can actually maintain. Tree planting that frames strategy rather than choking it in year eight. Module H Green complexes Show Putting-surface area versus traffic. Enough distinct hole locations for the intended green speed. Surface slopes generally in the 1–3% working range; steeper only where the pin and the drainage are explained. Pinnable area at the speed the club will actually run, not the speed in the rendering. Number and quality of surface drainage exits. No trapped low points. Collar, approach, collection areas, fall-offs. Construction method: USGA profile, California, push-up, or hybrid — and whether the specification matches. Shade and air movement. A green with no morning sun and no breeze is a maintenance sentence. Module I Bunkers Show Each bunker should have a job: strategy, visibility, safety steering, or (rarely) purely visual. Face orientation to the player. Hidden bunkers that do not play. Floor fall to an inlet, typically in the order of 2%, low point on the entry side where possible. Liner or no liner; sand depth; flash sand versus grass face — climate and labour implications. Maintenance access and whether a mechanical rake can enter without destroying the face. A bunker count the operating budget can live with. Module J Water Show Lakes that are hydrological and strategic, not only decorative holes in the ground. Edge treatment, lining, freeboard, weirs, overflow path in a monsoon event. Water as carry, as lateral, as backdrop. Forced water carries counted. Irrigation storage versus ornamental water — are they the same pond on the drawing? Module K Earthworks and grading Show Cut-and-fill balance. Imported fill. Rock cut. Unstated retaining. Green pads and tee pads that sit on the land rather than on a manufactured plateau with no reason. Major grade changes that will show as raw slopes for years. Whether the shaping budget implied by the drawings is present in the cost plan. Module L Drainage Show Surface catchment logic for the whole property, not only the greens. Subsurface drainage on greens, tees, bunkers, selected fairway swales. Outfalls that exist on the drawing and on the site. No drainage to nowhere. Playability after 25 mm in an hour, and after the monsoon design event. Greens and tees relative to flood levels. Module M Irrigation concept Show Water source, licence, quality, storage and pumping — reality versus assumption. Coverage philosophy: greens and tees first, fairways next, rough last. Head spacing implied by the design of features (narrow necks, island greens, bunker tongues). We do not redesign the irrigation system inside a standard review. We say whether the golf design is irrigable as drawn. Module N Agronomy and grow-in Show Grass species proposed against climate, water quality and the intended aesthetic. Shade, air movement, winter overseed questions, traffic management. Grow-in sequence implied by phasing. The review is not a full agronomy retainer. It flags design decisions that agronomy cannot rescue. Module O Access, operations and the hidden estate Show Cart-path alignment: play, safety, trees, maintenance, drainage of the path itself. Service roads that do not cross landing zones. Maintenance compound: size, screening, wash-pad, chemical store, prevailing wind. Staff and golfer circulation at the clubhouse, range and first tee. Rain shelters, toilets, drinking water — present or omitted. Module P Documents, specification and constructability Show Are the drawings coordinated — routing, grading, features, drainage, irrigation, planting, paths? Do typical details exist for greens, bunkers, tees, lake edges, walls and paths? Are quantities implied by the drawings reconcilable with the cost plan? What will a contractor interpret differently from the architect? Those gaps become variations. Hold-points that should exist in the construction contract and currently do not. 
