Pleasington Golf Club in Lancashire has revealed the latest results of its £1 million golf course transformation.
The work, which has been overseen by golf course architect Ken Moodie of Creative Golf Design, is part of the club’s ‘Good to Great’ plan, which aims to make the venue among the best golf courses in the UK, as well as being an inclusive club at the heart of the community, encouraging golf for all and restoring the landscape’s natural environment.
The course upgrade included three major objectives:
1) Making the course visually stronger with new and renovated bunkers.
2) Creating firmer, faster greens with enhanced drainage and disease resilience.
3) Strategic design changes to make the course fairer to higher handicap players and more challenging for low handicappers and elite golfers.
“This has been an important and exciting journey for the club,” said General Manager, Mark Bleasdale. “While the course has always been recognised as an outstanding layout, hosting Open qualifying and prestigious amateur events including the Pleasington Putter for elite amateur women, we wanted to restore its natural character and return it to its very best. Now, after major works over the past three winters, including the regeneration of heathland, the course has been transformed.”
Rated the No.1 heathland course in Lancashire, the 12-time Open qualifying venue is just an hour from Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, the club is already a popular destination with players heading to three nearby Open links, as well as golfers stopping off on route to and from Scotland via the M6.
For more details, visit www.pleasington-golf.co.uk.