Crowborough Beacon Golf Membership will construct on a record-breaking yr with a six-day golf extravaganza in summer season 2025, the Sussex venue has introduced.
‘The Beacon’s Pageant of Golf’ is the most recent innovation from the membership after it loved unprecedented success during the last 12 months – which noticed all-time excessive inexperienced price revenues recorded and membership numbers close to capability, prompting the introduction of a proper ready record.
RECORD BREAKING YEAR
Report-breaking demand for membership has been partly attributed to the membership’s occasions calendar, with an thrilling schedule for each members and visitors throughout 2024 set to proceed into the brand new yr.
Roughly one third of Crowborough Beacon’s 700 members are actually within the ‘intermediate’ class (ages 18-40), highlighting the emergence of a brand new era inside the membership’s membership. In the meantime, the membership additionally elevated its feminine membership by 35 per cent throughout 2024.
Dowrick stated: “We’re delighted with the success we now have seen in 2024, each as we purpose to spice up green-fee gross sales and search to construct the strongest and most numerous membership within the membership’s historical past. We’re more than happy with the outcomes we’re seeing in each areas and can work onerous to make sure the membership and member expertise retains bettering in 2025.
“The competition is a good instance of the additions and introductions we’re working onerous to carry to the desk, guaranteeing that we proceed to provide again to our members with new experiences and ensure Crowborough Beacon stays a membership we will all really feel proud to belong to.”
WHEN IS THE GOLF FESTIVAL
Going down from June 7-12, ‘The Beacon’s Pageant of Golf’ will centre round six consecutive days of inclusive competitors throughout a variety of particular person and crew occasions. The occasion offers visiting golfers with the chance to expertise a premium heathland course at distinctive worth, whereas members may reap the benefits of closely discounted entry charges for all six aggressive occasions.
Highlights will embrace the comeback of the favored Beacon Trophy – a event for golfers with a handicap of 6.4 or higher. The occasion might be returning in 2025 with a twist, with female and male golfers competing aspect by aspect with girls’s occasion The Beacon Salver being performed on the identical time.
A prize giving ceremony will carry festivities to a detailed on June 12, with the entire household invited to get pleasure from a BBQ on the clubhouse terrace.
All earnings raised by the week celebration might be reinvested straight again into the membership, used to fund initiatives centring on bunker enchancment and cart path replacements.
Crowborough Beacon’s par-71 course has been developed by famend architects together with Harry Colt and Alister MacKenzie for the reason that membership was based in 1895, although the id of the unique designer stays shrouded in thriller.
Famed for its dramatic panorama and panoramic views at one of many highest factors in Sussex, the membership is also referred to as a favorite of legendary creator and Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who served as membership captain within the early twentieth century.
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