STRI - GREEN MATTERS
Richard Stuttard, Environmental consultant for STRI, explains in this brief piece of writing the work they did regarding the new holes at The Renaissance Club.
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LINKS PREMIER CLUBS
The Renaissance Club is featured in the third annual edition of links premier clubs magazine “the best of Private Golf 2012”
The Renaissance is one of ten clubs included in the publication and gives the reader an insight into the clubs latest developments.
"Just about everything I love about golf is embodied in these 10 club.........and even a bit of Scotland (The Renaissance Club), a mashie shot away from Muirfield”
Jack Purcell, President and Publisher of Links Magazine
Is this the Augusta of Scotland?
A £5 MILLION investment in a world-class clubhouse and new holes could set a county golf course on the way to becoming the ‘Augusta of Scotland’.
Ground was broken for the new clubhouse at The Renaissance Golf Club at Archerfield on Wednesday, following the start of work on three new holes last week. Ambitious Renaissance owner and managing director Jerry Sarvadi has high hopes of landing a top event in the near future.
A Renaissance Man: The Making of a Golfing Fairytale
Kenny Kemp finds out how a unique Scottish golf club, a drive and a chip away from the world famous Muirfield, started as a twinkle in the eye of one stubborn American entrepreneur.
Once upon a time there were six brothers who loved golf. They lived all over a large country and once a year to compete in their favorite pastime. One afternoon all the brothers were in the clubhouse when...
High Praise For Renaissance Club From The Scottish Turf Research Institute’s Richard Windows, B. Sc.
The Renaissance Club received high praise from Richard Windows B. Sc., turf grass agronomist with the Scottish Turf Research Institute. Windows visits all the top venues in Scotland including St. Andrews, Carnoustie, Royal Aberdeen, Kingsbarns, Muirfield, Loch Lomond, etc. and reports, "What I saw at Renaissance is the new benchmark for links course conditioning, presentation and playing qualities.
Oceanside Drama at Renaissance
Shaping of four new holes at the Renaissance Club at Archerfield in East Lothian, Scotland, is approaching completion.
Architect Tom Doak has recently completed a visit to oversee progress on a new routing that has been designed to include a stretch of coastline acquired from Muirfield shortly before the course’s original construction.
GCA visited the course recently to see work on the new holes, all but one of which are par threes. The exception is a spectacular waterside par four that will surely become the course's most memorable hole, thanks to its picturesque setting with views over the Firth of Forth and to Fidra island.
The clifftop landing area for the hole, which will become the course's tenth, was cleared of buckthorn earlier in the year to make way for shaping work, which must have been precarious as the left of the fairway falls directly over the cliff edge. The land acquired also includes sand dunes, but because of the area’s environmental sensitivity and the difficulty of working on this rugged landscape, they are being left untouched.
The new tenth hole will be between two new par threes, which have adjacent greens bisected by one of the tumbling stone walls that feature throughout the course. The ninth has an infinity-style green, which will give players their first view of the sea, and the eleventh will be a drop shot from the current thirteenth tee, but played in the opposite direction. The present thirteenth, now a par three, is being extended into a par four, and will be the new twelfth hole. A new fifteenth, also a par three, is being built behind the current fifteenth close to the site for the new clubhouse, bringing the routing back into step at the sixteenth, which is to be extended to a par five.
Shaping work is expected to be completed within the next few weeks. The new holes should be in play in 2013, in time for both the completion of the new clubhouse and the Open Championship's visit to neighbouring Muirfield.
The original routing of the course was created with the possible land acquisition in mind, with current holes one to three positioned so they could easily be taken out of play for the introduction of holes by the Firth. No decision has yet been announced on the future of this area, although the teeing area for the driving range is being extended and a new putting green is being built that will blend with the current fourth hole. That will now become the first, a very stern opening test to the course.
-Toby Ingleton
Renaissance Club Highlighted In The Herald
Mark Williamson from The Herald, Scotland’s Leading Daily Newspaper, catches up with Jerry Sarvadi and brother Paul Sarvadi before a round at the highly acclaimed Renaissance Club.