Bauers to Leave Wentworth

Willy Bauer is leaving Wentworth after 11 years as chief executive. For more than a decade, Bauer built up the quality and reputation of the prestigious Surrey course which stages the Volvo PGA and Cisco Systems World Match Play Championships every year. The Westbury Hotel on London's Bond
Street and its sister on Madison Avenue in New York were also acquired and improved.

But with the sale of the two hotels and with no plans from parent company
Chelsfield to acquire any more, it seems the challenges are completed for
Bauer and he believes it is time to move on. His wife Zdenka Beck-Bauer will also leave her role as marketing director at Wentworth. She was instrumental in moving Wentworth upmarket over the last ten years. In 1995 she was the winner of the Caterer & Hotelkeeper's Catey Award for the best independent marketing campaign in the industry.

"We are both proud of what we have achieved for Chelsfield. Wentworth has
become a blueprint of golf and country clubs in this country and abroad,"
said Willy Bauer. He will stay on at Chelsfield in a part-time role.