Sunday River Golf Club Opens Saturday, April 29
Required-para1 Recent accolades include #1 public course in Maine by Golfweek Magazine and top 10 new course worldwide by Travel + Leisure Golf Magazine
NEWRY, Me. (April 28, 2006) -- The Saturday, April 29, opening of the Sunday River Golf Club (SRGC), located at 1500 feet in elevation in the western Mountains of Maine is a turf management feat. However, heading into the 2006 golf season, the Sunday River Golf Club is enjoying more than just an early opening. The Robert Trent Jones, Jr. design has recently been ranked as the #1 public course in Maine by Golfweek Magazine and been selected as a top 10 new course of 2006 by Travel + Leisure Golf Magazine.
“This will be our first season where all 18 holes are open right from the start,” said Jeff Bickford, Sunday River Golf Club’s Director of Golf. “Last year there was still snow on many holes at this time. The relatively mild winter is allowing us to open in April and the course should green up quickly as we head into May.”
Early season greens fees including cart are set at $80 per person through Memorial Day. The full practice facility is opening along with the course on Saturday. The phone number to call for tee times is (207) 824-GOLF. Course updates are available at www.sundayriver.com/golf including a blog that features updated photography fresh from the course.
SRGC 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.
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.
