Sunday River Golf Club open for public play May 27
Friday, May 20, 2005
NEWRY, MAINE (May 20, 2005)—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.
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.
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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.
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