[2] There are significant environmental issues involved with managing the club and surrounding marshes.

[3] Due to sea level rise, efforts to mitigate coastal erosion are in place in the area.

[4] Earth flood embankments were built nearby in 1978 to protect again storm surges, and there has also been the need for the course to implement defensive measures of its own.

[3] The original course was laid out by Horace Hutchinson, but due to the fragility of the marshland and coast, it had undergone many changes over the past century, and there are now two crossings between holes 2 and 17 and 4 and 5.

[5] At times of high tide the course can become an island, thereby rendering parts of the layout inaccessible.