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Super Spaniard Seve Ballesteros’s playing days may be over but he’s still making hjis mark in the game: his superb new golf course in North London – The Shire London – is now up and running and has got off to a flying start.
More than 500 golfers teed off on the opening weekend as Seve’s first course in the UK welcomed its new members. The 18-hole, 7,028 yard, par 72 championship course is just outside Barnet and opened for green fees earlier this month.
Said owner Tony Menia Davis: “We have provided London with a truly world-class new golf course, and a high-class dining and leisure experience.
“Seve’s design is challenging and beautiful – he certainly brought his incredible flair and passion to the project. No two consecutive holes here present the same challenge. Our course features links, parkland and stadium-type holes with an equal number of par 3s, 4s with multiple tees to suit all abilities. Also, where a hole invites you to be daring, it also enables you to play it safe.”
Davis has certainly been encouraged by the early feedback, adding: “It’s been exceptional, and we now have many golfers on our waiting list for new memberships.
“We are already booking golf events well into 2008, and although we have a small amount of capacity for parties of between 12-20 golfers for autumn 2007, we expect these to be taken very quickly now that the course is open.”
Besides the 18-hole course, The Shire London is home to the world’s first ‘Seve School of Natural Golf’; a brand new hi-tech golf teaching academy. Soon an accompanying nine-hole ‘Academy’course – built to the same high specification as the main course – will also open.
Construction is now complete on a new luxury clubhouse with gym, saunas and fitness room, and a glass frontage affording panoramic views of the course, particularly the stunning 18th hole with an S-shaped lake designed by Ballesteros to create a spectacular – and highly challenging – finish to the round.
