We would like to congratulate Alison Nicholas for leading the European Ladies Team to a 15-13 victory over the USA at Killeen Castle In Ireland in September 2011 .
Steve worked with Alison on the redesign of several golf holes at Shirley Golf Course in Birmingham and hope that Alison will get involved with future golf course design projects.
The stage has been set for the biggest ever professional golf tournament in Africa to be held in Nigeria in late 2012. The tournament, the Africa Open, will hold at the Le Meridien Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort, Uyo with an incredible prize fee of $1.5 million (about N225 million) on offer.
A 52-player-field from 25 countries will feature at the three-day event. The winner will bank $300,000 (about N45million).
This ambitious proposal is at the instance of US-based sports brand management group, IMG.
Ibom Resort is unarguably Nigeria’s benchmark golf layout with its stock enhanced by five-star on course, Le Meridien Hotel.
Sam Logan of IMG, said the philosophy behind the proposed Africa Cup, is to use golf to drive Akwa Ibom in its desire to be Nigeria’s preferred international destination.
Last year, IMG signed a seven-year management agreement with Le Meridien to run the golf course.
Ernie Els is among a host of international golfers which include, Colin Montgomerie, Rory Sabatini and Retief Goosen, expected to attend the tournament. For Full Story Go to http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/le-meridien-plans-africa-cup-for-nigeria/84967/
Steve has completed design of a new 9 hole private golf course in Nigeria which is now being shaped up by Mick Butler who previously worked on the golf course at Le Meridien Ibom in Uyo.
Planning consent has just been granted subject to conditions to construct a new 18 hole championship standard golf course and academy near Great Paxton in Cambridgeshire and shall be named the Cambridgeshire Golf Course and Academy. This is a first for an 18 hole golf layout as there are two sets of tees for each hole and each hole has five tees which makes a total of ten tees per hole!! This is the ultimate flexible golf course whereby from one set of tees the course can be played as a standard length golf course and from the other the course can be played as a championship golf course.
Alison Opens First Phase of Works at Shirley Golf Course
Ladies Solhiem Team captain Alison Nicholas opened the first phase of works to be completed at Shirley Golf Course which was designed by Steve in association with Alison and David Bates Agronomy.
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Ritson Golf Design have been appointed to design their first golf course on the South American continent. The golf course is to be an 18 hole championship layout in the beautiful country of Suriname. The land owner is now looking for investors or partners to develop the golf course and real estate.
Photo of the existing site.
Steve is designing a new 18 hole golf course in a spectacular location on the north coast of mozambique. This area could be one of the hot spots for tourism and development in Africa with fantastic climate, wildlife and superb diving. Mees Van Deth, the site owner will project manage the construction of the golf course himself using local labour. See our new course section for more information.
The new 18 hole golf course in Mongomo is now starting to take shape and the course is set in a naturally stunning area with a rolling landscape containing a myriad of stunning trees and with views of the adjacent Mongomo Cathedral now nearing completion.
The new 18 hole championship golf course and superb five star Le Meridien Hotel is the largest in Nigeria. The course has recently held several national competitions including the Presidents Cup and is now being managed by IMG one of the largest golf operators in the world and it is presently being regrassed to upgrade the fairways and teeing areas.
