HISTORIC STAPLEFORD PARK ANNOUNCES
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW CHAMPIONSHIP
GOLF COURSE FOR 21ST CENTURY

The first phase in the development of a new, multi-million pound, 18-hole championship golf course has just begun at Stapleford Park, an Outpost of the exclusive Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle and one of England's most beautiful stately homes and country estates. It follows the unprecedented success of the 3-hole Golf Academy which opened there last year.

Over the next twelve months Donald Steel, the world's No 1 links golf course architect, will oversee the £5m development - his fifth for The Carnegie Club. It will be set within 500 acres of Capability Brown parkland, affording outstanding views of the surrounding Leicestershire countryside, yet it will embody many of the features found on the great links courses of Scotland.

The former seat of Lord and Lady Gretton, Stapleford Park is only one hour from London and has been widely acclaimed as one of the most luxurious and enjoyable destinations outside the capital, where house guests and Members of The Carnegie Club alike experience the very best in English country living.

Already voted top UK venue for leisure facilities in 1998 by readers of Conde Nast Traveller magazine, its magnificent Grade II Victorian stables will be converted to accommodate a new Club House and secondary spa whilst retaining many of the buildings original features.

Peter de Savaray, The Carnegie Club's founder and Chairman, will be hosting a celebration of the final phase of the course's construction on 11th September. Scheduled to open in July 2000, in an unrivaled and quintessentially English setting, the course will be one of the most sought-after by golfing enthusiasts around the globe.