How Greg Norman will build a state-of-the-art $700MILLION golf course shaped like a great white shark
- Golfing legend Greg Norman has plans to build a shark-shaped golf course in SA
- Norman has signed agreement with weight-lifting champ’s son, Dean Lukin Jnr
- Shaped like a shark, the golf course will be built on an old BHP sand mine
Champion golfer Greg Norman has announced plans to build a golf course shaped like a great white shark.
Norman’s company, Greg Norman Golf Course Design, signed a formal agreement for the project on Wednesday with Dean Lukin Jr, the son of gold-medal winning weightlifter and ex-tuna fisherman, Dean Lukin.
Initiated over a decade ago, the golf course is set to be built on an old BHP sand mine at Port Lincoln, on the South Australian peninsula.
Golfing great Greg Norman has announced plans to build a golf course shaped like a shark
Norman said he was honoured to be involved in both his association with Mr Lukin Jr and the development of the project.
‘It has been a long road, but we are so glad to finally be here and move forward with the formal masterplan agreement,’ he said.
‘This will be a tremendous boost for Port Lincoln and the lower Eyre Peninsula area generally.’
With Norman’s name attached, Mr Lukin Jr hopes to attract investors to the one-of-a-kind project, estimated to be cost between $600 – $700million.
‘I am very excited to have Greg Norman involved as I am hugely passionate about this beautiful region,’ he said.
‘There is nobody better than Greg in achieving an aesthetic, well-planned and creative golf course development.
Pictured together is gold medal weigh-lifter Dean Lukin (left), his son Dean Lukin Jnr (middle) and golfing legend Greg Norman (right), now business partners in a proposed shark-shaped golf course to be build in Port Lincoln, SA
‘I am supremely confident everybody will be pleased with the outcome.’
According to Mr Lukin Jnr, Norman has remained excited about the project over the years, remaining in regular contact with his Father to discuss the project.
‘Greg believes in this project and wants to see it happen. I believe in it too,’ he said.
‘If you had said to me nine years ago we would have got to this stage, I would have told you to get a grip on yourself.
‘Getting Greg on board and reaching an agreement is pointing it in the right direction.
‘If you went into the full details of what he is thinking about, you would go ‘wow’ he wants to do a lot of things here.’
Aussie golfing legend Greg Norman, pictured left.
Housing blocks that will be offered for sale alongside the shark-shaped venture, yet how many and what they will look yet are still on the drawing board.
‘We’ve got all the zoning approvals we need,’ said Mr Lukin Jnr.
‘It’s going to involve 40 hectares of residential land, a commercial precinct and a desalination plant.
‘I would also really like to have an educational component such as a university so our kids don’t need to leave Port Lincoln to study.’
The subject of ridicule when plans and images for the shark-shaped golf course were first revealed in 2008, Mr Lukin Jnr rejected the notion the proposed unique design was just PR spin.
‘There were lots of people taking the p**s out of me and saying it was a publicity stunt but it’s not a publicity stunt.
‘I don’t do publicity stunts. This is going to happen.’