Meanwhile, a working party has advised on course changes to add length and difficulty to the Royal Pines layout. Thorburn and Andrew Langford-Jones, director of tournaments for the PGA of Australia, had a two-day visit to the resort course last week. "There are ideas for changes to five or six of the tees, either taking them back to add length or to change the angles to the fairways," Thorburn revealed. The course will be beefed up from 6500m to 6700m and advice has already been taken on the narrowing of fairways and growing the rough. It's an exciting time. Right from the start, we believed the Australian PGA going to the Gold Coast would be a popular move and we have had very good feedback already. A course architect to direct the changes this year and next, under a $5 million upgrade, is yet to be settled on. with Jim Tucker