NEWRY, MAINE —The front nine of the Sunday River Golf Club will open for public play May 27. The opening of the full 18 holes of the highly anticipated Robert Trent Jones, Jr. championship course is slated for July and a host of tournaments and events are already scheduled. This is the second RTJ2 course in Maine--Sugarloaf is less than two hours north.
The mountain course has 18 self-contained fairways that are the widest in Maine. There are four sets of tees on each hole and plenty of doglegs, bunkers and elevation changes. It was the most “highly anticipated” new golf course by the former New England Journal of Golf and was included in the Top 100 Must Play courses in the new publication, GolfStyles Boston. It will also be featured as one of the top ten new courses in Travel + Leisure Golf.
Spread across a 350-acre site that sits on a northwest-facing hillside with sweeping views across Sunday River Valley to the Mahoosuc Mountain Range, the course is 7,130 yard, has 18 self-contained fairways, four sets of tees on each hole, and plenty of doglegs and bunkers. The clubhouse is log and stone and features a deck with sweeping views, an indoor/outdoor stone fireplace, a stone-faced bar, woodcarvings and Old Hickory furniture.
Individual rounds are currently $50 for nine holes and $80 for 18 holes. Tee times are available by calling 207.824.GOLF. Golf and Stay packages with lodging at Jordan Grand Resort Hotel and the Grand Summit Resort Hotel begin at $125 pp/do and are available when the course is fully open. To book, call 800.543.2SKI.
The course is also available for groups of 12 or more for $129 pp, including one round of 18-hole golf with cart, one night lodging at a Grand Resort Hotel and continental breakfast. To book, call 800.286.4792.
Among the tournaments slated for later this summer are the Women’s Maine State Golf Association Aug. 9 and the Southern Maine Women’s Golf Association Aug. 30.
The developer and operator of the course, Harris Golf, owns and operates the Boothbay Country Club, the Bath Country Club and Harris Golf Shop, the largest golf shop in Maine. Sunday River, which will co-market the course, is one of the largest ski resorts in New England.
Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has designed courses across the world, including the famed The Links at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach, CA.
Sunday River is proud to be a part of the American Skiing Company family of resorts, which also includes Sugarloaf/USA in Maine, Killington and Mount Snow in Vermont, Attitash Bear Peak in New Hampshire, Steamboat in Colorado, and The Canyons in Utah.
