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 COURSE ARTICLES 23 / 04 / 08
 

Carden Park gets a facelift

Carden Park
Plush locker room at Carden Park clubhouse

Carden Park Hotel, near Chester, one of De Vere's top golf resorts has opened a new clubhouse to serve its championship courses - the Nicklaus and The Cheshire.

Former Everton and Liverpool legends Kevin Ratcliffe and Roy Evans hosted a charity pro-am to celebrate the opening on sunday, which raised £2,000 for Cancer Research.

Carden Park
Clubhouse refurbished at Carden Park

The £500,000 upgrade to the clubhouse has created a more contemporary style, and features new locker rooms and dining areas, including Jack's Bar, with panoramic views from the balcony.

Marriott St Pierre Hotel & Country Club has completed a major transformation to improve the quality of its hotel and golf courses.

The Mathern and Old courses have undergone a £1.8 million re-furbishment designed to create two courses of a high standard throughout the year. It's part of a £7 million investment in the hotel that includes a improvements to bedrooms, restaurants and bars as well as the Leisure club and spa.

St Pierre hotel
St Piere Resort

Though the Mathern course has reopened, the Old Course will re-open in June. Both re-designed teeing areas, re-shaped and additional bunkers, a new automatic irrigation system on all greens, new pathways and new bridges over waterways.

The 7th hole on the Old Course has been redesigned from a par-4 to a dogleg right par-5 - taking the course over 7000 yards and creating a par of 72. The Old will also feature two new greens with plans for a further two greens over the next two years.

An ingenious new approach to membership of a golf club will soon be introduced in the London area offering the opportunity to join an exclusive establishment while applying fees according to how much you play.

The new site for the Centurion project is set in 160 acres of rolling countryside and woodland at Potters Crouch between St Albans and Hemel Hempstead and open in June next year (2009).

The management team, led by Chairman Roy Horton and Managing Director Scott Evans, devised their new approach to subscription golf after studying rising costs at traditional courses and realised that members wanted sensible annual fixed cost of membership with flexibility of usage for themselves and their guests.

One report revealed: "Traditional membership with an annual payment to cover all golf use is unlikely to grow and fill clubs.”

For further information visit: www.centurionclub.co.uk


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