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Surrey’s Kingswood Golf and Country Club is set to see some of its original James Braid bunkering renovated under the direction of Swan Golf Designs.
The renowned Braid (pictured right) designed the original course back in the 1920s and Swan Golf Designs has carried out a comprehensive analysis and made recommendations for its sympathetic renovation.
Owner, Tom Hilliard, vice-president of the Variety Club of Great Britain Golfing Society, is seeking to raise the course’s profile and image and work has already started with bunkering on eight holes in the first phase of the renovation.
Swan and his team will breath new life into the bunkering of the par-5s and, most spectacularly, to a significant number of the par-3s and par-4s in the central area of the course.
New tees are also being created as part of the project, increasing the length of the course from the championship tees to 6,960 yards.
Excited at the prospect of the imminent improvements, Hilliard, who also owns and operates Swan designed Silvermere Golf and Leisure, said:“The original course was designed by James Braid in the 1920s, so that layout now needs to evolve to meet the standards of the modern golfer.
“Changes need to be sensitively and professionally managed with results that are natural but at the same time distinctive and challenging. We want, however, to retain and enhance that James Braid legacy.”