La Grande Mare prepares to open redesigned course

This article was written by:

Steve Briggs,
Contracts Director (Golf)

01722 716361
steve.briggs@mjabbott.co.uk

The imminent opening of the new championship golf course at La Grande Mare marks a major milestone in one of Guernsey’s most ambitious multi-million-pound sporting and leisure developments.

The course is due to open on 1st August, with tee times available to book now, with individual green fees set at £200 per round.

Designed by European Golf Design, and built to exceptional tournament standards by construction specialists M J Abbott Limited, the original course has been extended and reconfigured to make it a true golfing test.

The 5,367-yard, par-69 layout has incorporated innovative agronomic techniques to ensure exceptional year-round playing conditions. Wherever possible, soil and turf materials from the original course were carefully retained and reused, helping preserve the site’s character while establishing healthy, resilient playing surfaces.

Combined with the expertise of leading golf course agronomists and the installation of modern drainage and irrigation systems, the result is a course built to perform at the highest standard in all seasons. La Grande Mare’s Golf Performance Centre, which opened last November, will become an interim clubhouse until the country club opens next year.

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It’s been fantastic to work with the team at La Grande Mare to develop a course built to such an exceptionally high tournament standard. The greens and surrounding areas here have been constructed to the same specification as Adare Manor, so the conditions golfers experience here will closely mirror those expected at the Ryder Cup next year. On top of that, the course has been designed to provide a rigorous and highly strategic test of golf.

Whilst there are a few very well regarded shorter 18-hole courses within the British Isles, there is nothing of this standard and built to such a modern specification – I can’t think of a single course that looks anything like this, it’s so unique.

Robin Hiseman