One in every of Devon’s main Championship golf programs is teeing off for the brand new season with a brand new golf store and members’ space, following a six-figure funding.
Bovey Citadel Golf and Leisure Membership – which is a part of the five-star Bovey Citadel lodge in Dartmoor – has unveiled the brand new space, which is able to complement the lodge’s 18-hole course.
The £160,000 undertaking includes a brand new store that includes premium golf model companions similar to Titleist, Peter Millar, Cobra and Puma.
Because of the funding, the adjoining members’ space additionally now options extra seating, a trophy show, a digital leaderboard and out of doors seating space.
It follows scorching on the heels of a current £40,000 all-weather heated driving vary, with the lodge’s golf membership having grown by 66 per cent year-on-year below the stewardship of PGA Golf Supervisor, Rob Selley.
Rob mentioned: “This newest funding is about driving in the direction of our goal of making an genuine golf membership expertise for all ages and talents at Bovey Citadel.
“Our Championship golf course and five-star lodge amenities, mixed with teaching from skilled golfers, has actually helped to develop our membership lately, and this newest funding has an important function to play in interesting to each {golfing} purists and the subsequent era.
“We’ve additionally just lately given our golf membership a reputation – Bovey Citadel Golf and Leisure Membership – to mirror that we’re not only a top-class facility, however a recognised golf membership too – and this offers us a stable platform to construct on sooner or later to get as many individuals as potential from all ages and backgrounds enjoying the game.”
To mark the opening of the brand new store and members’ space, Bovey Citadel is launching its first sequence of three-day {golfing} tuition breaks on 3 June, 1 July and 9 September in order that adults of all talents can pattern a standard golf membership ambiance.
Every tuition break will see personalised instruction round swing method, pitching and placing, earlier than concluding with an 18-hole spherical of golf – mixed with award-winning eating and a two-night keep at Bovey Citadel itself.
Bovey Citadel’s “Get into Golf” Academy for under-16s can even be operating two-hour teaching classes for junior locals and lodge friends each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday through the college holidays.
Dean Gunston, Basic Supervisor at Bovey Citadel, added: “We’re seeing extra {couples} and households taking in a spherical of golf on the hallowed Dartmoor turf when they’re staying with us alongside teams of mates – which has performed an enormous half in our development.
“The current funding displays a very thrilling time for Bovey Citadel Golf and Leisure Membership as we gear up for one more bumper summer time for the broader Bovey Citadel resort.”
Set inside 275 acres of lovely countryside in Dartmoor Nationwide Park, Bovey Citadel is a 5 Purple Star lodge owned by luxurious lodge group The Eden Lodge Assortment, providing 60 bedrooms all through the historic manor, and 22 self-catering nation lodges.
For extra details about Bovey Citadel and its tuition breaks go to www.boveycastle.com
