Sunday River Golf Club to Open Fully

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Sunday River Golf Club to fully open August 1
Monday, July 11, 2005

NEWRY, MAINE (July 11, 2005)— The Sunday River Golf Club will fully open August 1 for members, resort guests and limited public tee times following a construction period that began in April 2003. The course is located on Monkey Brook Road enroute to the Jordan Grand Hotel and Conference Center. The front nine of the course opened this season for play in May.

The 18-hole Robert Trent Jones, Jr. course was recently named the Course of the Month in Travel + Leisure Golf magazine and previously was called the most “highly anticipated” new golf course by the former New England Journal of Golf. It was also included in the Top 100 Must Play courses in GolfStyles Boston. Robert Trent Jones, Jr. has designed courses across the world, including the famed The Links at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach, CA.

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 yards, and has 18 self-contained fairways that are the widest in Maine. 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. 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. 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 the course this summer are the 16th Annual Constellation NewEnergy Bethel Area Chamber Golf Classic, the Bethel ChamberWomen’s Maine State Golf Association Aug. 9, the Southern Maine Women’s Golf Association Aug. 30 and the Maine State Golf Association Sept. 30-Oct. 1.

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.

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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.