GOLF


When I first went in there with the tractor and flail, the grass and shrubbery was literally over the bonnet


didn’t stop; we literally shut the door on the whole thing until the grass came through and we could get back on the course.” It was then a matter of Roger getting his greenkeeping team together to help maintain and shape the course. “1995 was classed as our growing in year,” explains Roger, “and we opened the course in August to limited play. Michael had some of his business friends play the course to show it off, and we had already sold some


memberships who also got some limited golf. We then closed down over winter and re-opened up all twenty-seven-holes fully in the spring of 1996.”


Roger tells me that, as the years went by, Michael’s vision grew to build a spa and more bedrooms onto the hotel. To fund that, they managed to get planning approval for some new houses on part of the third nine holes. This meant a few areas were sold off for housing, taking the course down to


eighteen holes in the autumn of 2011. “It was heartbreaking watching the contractors come in that winter and destroy all the hard work we originally put into building those holes,” bemoans Craig.


The silver lining for Roger and Craig was that they were already in advanced planning for eighteen new holes which would eventually become the Cathedral course. Roger comments: “we were working with Jonathan Gaunt again, and we had the plans


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