Trump Turnberry’s iconic Ailsa course, a everlasting fixture on the high of world golf course rankings, will reopen on June 1 following an eagerly anticipated refurbishment.
One of many world’s nice hyperlinks programs has been closed since final October when acclaimed architect Martin Ebert – who famously took the course to new heights when he first reimagined it in 2015 – returned to the Ayrshire coast as soon as once more to guide a £1m renovation.
The Ailsa will reopen on June 1 for members, native residents and pre-booked rounds with new bookings from July 1 out there on-line.
HOLE CHANGES
Headlining the most recent modifications are the seventh and eighth holes, which are available a key stretch on the entrance 9 culminating within the spectacular par-3 ninth gap, some of the photographed holes in golf within the shadow of the well-known Turnberry Lighthouse.
The placing floor of the par-5 seventh has been relocated from its previous place some 50 yards inland to a brand new web site straight on the rugged shoreline, creating some of the dramatic greens within the British Isles.
In the meantime, the eighth gap – a par 4 – has benefitted from new tee bins that straighten the green and remove the previous blind method shot, elevating the opening’s visible enchantment. A bunker on the precise of the previous fairway has been changed with a brand new sand lure on the left to higher swimsuit the brand new alignment.
Ebert stated: “On the brand new seventh gap, we wished to profit from Turnberry’s gorgeous location by shifting the inexperienced proper to the coastal edge. There aren’t many hyperlinks programs the place you have got greens proper on the cliff edge – in order that may be very particular in its personal proper.
“For gap eight, it made a variety of sense to maneuver the tees over to the precise and produce a significantly better gap. The tee shot might be far improved with the brand new alignment, making the opening visually gorgeous out of your first shot to your final.”
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
To accompany the numerous modifications on these holes, different notable enhancements have been made together with new banking behind the twelfth and fifteenth greens, modifications to the thirteenth gap and tee field updates at holes 14 and 17.
Nic Oldham, Normal Supervisor at Trump Turnberry, added: “We, along with the proprietor, are at all times on the lookout for methods to raise your entire providing at Trump Turnberry. This contains the Ailsa and there’s no person higher than Martin Ebert in terms of taking this course to a brand new stage.
“We sit up for welcoming visitors again to expertise the perfect ever iteration of this historic course, together with the seventh gap – which now boasts some of the picturesque and thrilling greens within the UK – and a much-improved new alignment for the eighth.”
The Ailsa is a four-time host of The Open – in 1977, 1986, 1994 and 2009 – the primary of which resulted within the well-known ‘Duel within the Solar’ between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus.
In addition to masterminding the refurbishment that elevated the Ailsa to even better acclaim a decade in the past, Ebert is answerable for the design of the King Robert the Bruce, Turnberry’s different championship format which joined its extra well-known accomplice within the Gold Digest World’s Biggest 100 Programs rating for the primary time this 12 months. Each programs are complemented by the Arran, ‘Wee Hyperlinks’ pitch-and-putt and a state-of-the-art Golf Academy.
The Golf Academy at Trump Turnberry has additionally undergone its personal renovations with the opening this month of a state-of-the-art Trackman 11-bay vary and leading edge Trackman Simulator alongside a brand new Academy Café.
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