Robbie Hellstrom strikes you as the kind of guy who could play three rounds in one day, quickly and without a golf cart.

It's that high-energy - some might even say manic - personality that helped fuel the project manager's completion, in record time, of Brudenell's new companion 18-hole course called Dundarave.

"I like to drive a car 200 miles an hour with no steering wheel and no brake," Hellstrom said in an interview shortly after giving a tour of what he proudly proclaims to be a golf course that has been built faster than any other in Canada.

"The golf course was literally built in 117 days, which is a massive undertaking when you look at the type of product that is out there now," said Hellstrom, who makes up in enthusiasm what he lacks in humility.

With the last hole on the golf course seeded and sodded on Aug. 28, and with seeding and sodding finished Sept. 15 for the nearby golf academy, the project dethrones Hellstrom's previous quickest construction, Le Diable in Tremblant, Quebec, as the fastest mass golf course construction project in Canadian history.

Hellstrom says there are two reasons why he wasted little time building this 18-hole addition to the Brudenell Resort.

"Well, number one, there was such a demand for golf on Prince Edward Island," he said.

"There was a need to open another golf course just to meet the demand. I mean, (the province) has an inventory problem, and an accessibility problem, and to meet that, it needs to happen in one year, not two years from now."

Barring a particularly destructive winter, Hellstrom is confident Islanders and tourists alike will be making their way by next July around Dundarave, which was designed by acclaimed golf course architects Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry.

Money also played a big factor in Hellstrom frantically rallying his troops into action.

"In today's marketplace, developers and people who are putting money forward to build golf courses need to get a return on their money quicker because why get into the business if you're not making money?"

The developers are Brudenell River Developments, a consortium of sorts comprised of 10 Island business people.

Hellstrom is quick to note that many Islanders cashed in on the construction with about $4 million going out to P.E.I. contractors.

At peak construction, 135 people and 45 pieces of heavy equipment were used to carve out Dundarave and the Brudenell Family Golf Learning Centre, clearing 80 acres of trees in the process.

The work schedule was 12 hours a day, seven days a week, with Hellstrom commonly arriving on site at 6 a.m. and heading home at 7:30 p.m.

Here's his rather-winded description of the no-nonsense construction of Dundarave, which borrows its name from a castle owned by the MacNaughton family of Scotland (the MacNaughtons also being the name of the former owners of the property on which the Brudenell Resort sits).

"You've got hydraulic shovels working on one end of the golf course and you've got bulldozers at the other end and you've got loaders at the other end and you've got dump trucks...and you've got drainage guys laying in 10 miles of pipe and you've got irrigation guys laying in 670 irrigation heads and you've got you're own crew prepping the land.

"You've got seed preparation and you've got bunker construction and you've got tee-deck construction and greens construction and everything is going on at the same time, and you're basically running from one end of the golf course to the other, just making sure that everything is going at a pace because everything is like a domino effect: if something doesn't get done, then everything else behind it gets stalled or gets behind.

"It's a massive logistical operation as far as running around," he concluded.