RYDER Cup star Robert Karlsson jetted in from the USPGA to open St Ives Golf Club’s �8million new course on Monday.
RYDER Cup star Robert Karlsson jetted in from the USPGA to open St Ives Golf Club’s �8million new course on Monday.
The Swede, fresh from a finish in joint 16th place at the year’s final major, cut the ribbon at the club’s 18-hole inland links course on Needingworth Road.
He then led a golf clinic on the new driving range, next to the club’s Titleist National Fitting Centre, and played a five-hole exhibition round with three club members.
“I wish you all the best and hope that the new club will work out well for you,” he told a crowd of members.
Club president Philip Casey said that members, who have been playing the course since May 1, were enjoying the change from the nine-hole course which had been the club’s home for 83 years.
“The course is settling down nicely and the members are very happy with it. We hope that within a few years, as the course matures, we will have the county’s premier course at St Ives Golf Club.
“Our ambition is that as an inland links-style course, we could one day host the qualifying competition for The Open.”
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