NEWRY, Me. (March 13, 2006) -- Recently named one of the Top 10 New Courses of 2005 by Travel + Leisure Golf Magazine out of a worldwide field, the Sunday River Golf Club (SRGC) is preparing for its first full season of open play. Providing further momentum for the 2006 season, Golfweek Magazine’s 2006 ranking of public courses declared SRGC as the #1 course in Maine. The front nine of the Robert Trent Jones, Jr. course opened in May of 2005; the full 18 arrived in August. The entire course is projected to open for the 2006 season during the month of May.
“For a long time, Sugarloaf has been regarded as one of New England’s mountain golf jewels,” says Jeff Bickford, Sunday River Golf Club’s Director of Golf. “Sunday River Golf Club brings another world class course to Maine - one that’s getting rave reviews literally all over North America and further establishing western Maine as a must-play golf destination.”
The mountain course has 18 self-contained fairways that the Maine State Golf Association has said are “among 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 a featured course in Golf Styles Boston’s Top 100 Must Play Courses in New England list.
Spread across a 350-acre site that sits on a northwest-facing hillside with sweeping views across the Sunday River Valley to the Mahoosuc Mountain Range, the course plays to 7,130 yards from the championship tees. The clubhouse is made of log and stone and features a deck with sweeping views, an indoor/outdoor stone fireplace, a stone-faced bar, woodcarvings and Old Hickory furniture. A full practice facility includes a driving range with multiple target greens and an expansive putting green, located adjacent to the clubhouse.
Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has designed courses around the world, including the famed Links at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach, CA. The highly acclaimed course at Sunday River’s sister resort, Sugarloaf/USA, is also a Trent Jones, Jr. design.
Stay and Play Packages start at $125 per person per night and include an 18-hole round with cart and lodging in either of Sunday River’s Jordan Grand or Grand Summit Resort Hotels.
Various membership options are available. All options include reciprocal play benefits at other Harris Golf facilities around Maine, including Boothbay Country Club, also a regular show on Golf Styles Top 100 Must Play Courses list. More information about the Sunday River Golf Club is available at www.sundayriver.com/golf.
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 in New Hampshire, Steamboat in Colorado, and The Canyons in Utah.
