Masters Tour week 1 - Stoke Poges Salver
Sept 19, 2021 9:20:13 GMT
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Post by paddyjk19 on Sept 19, 2021 9:20:13 GMT
Stoke Park is a private sporting and leisure estate in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire. The mansion building (designed by James Wyatt in 1788) is located in the middle of 300 acres (1.2 km2) of parkland, lakes, gardens and monuments. In 1908, it became the first country club in the UK. In 2013, it was awarded five red AA stars, the highest accolade for service and facilities for hotels, by The Automobile Association.
Stoke Park has served as the filming location for several major films, including James Bond's Goldfinger and Tomorrow Never Dies, Bridget Jones's Diary and Layer Cake. It also hosts the annual Boodles Tennis Championships as a warm-up to Wimbledon, a week prior to the Championships.
In June 2014, Stoke Park hosted an outdoor charity concert for SportsAid (patron: the Duchess of Cambridge). Sir Elton John sang to 5,000 people and raised £825,000.
The Stoke Park estate's history dates back to the time of the Domesday Book. From 1066, the estate was inherited in a direct line of descent for 515 years until it had to be sold to the Crown in 1581 to pay the outstanding debts of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, whose father Francis, the commander in chief of Henry VIII’s army, had rebuilt the Manor House (part of which can still be seen today) in 1555.
John Penn (1760–1834), a soldier, scholar, and poet, is responsible for most of what can be seen at the estate today. He used a large proportion of the £130,000 the new United States government paid for his family's 26-million acre (110,000 km²) plot in Pennsylvania.
The mansion was designed by James Wyatt (architect to George III) who worked on the development of the mansion and surrounding monuments from 1790 to 1813. The parkland was the product of two geniuses of 18th-century landscape architecture, Lancelot "Capability" Brown and Humphry Repton, who designed in 1792 the landscape that can be seen today.
The estate is listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
The estate was used as a private residence until 1908 when Nick "Pa" Lane Jackson, founder of the Corinthian Sporting Club (Corinthian F.C.), purchased the estate and turned it into the UK's first country club. One of his initial objectives was to commission the famous amateur golfer and course architect Harry Colt (who also designed Pinevalley, Wentworth, Sunningdale, Muirfield and Royal Portrush) to design the golf course. The golf course, along with the tennis courts and the conversion of the mansion, were all completed within eight months.
In 1908, the club’s first president was Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein and the first vice president was the Right Honourable Earl Howe. The committee also included Lord Chesterfield, Lord Kinnoull and Lord Decies.
In his 1910 book, The Golf Courses of the British Isles, Bernard Darwin wrote:
Stoke Park is a beautiful estate, and there is very good golf to be played there. There are plenty of things to do besides playing golf. We may get very hot at lawn tennis or keep comparatively cool at bowls or croquet, or, coolest of all, we may sit on the terrace or in the garden and give ourselves wholly and solely to loafing. The clubhouse is a gorgeous palace, a dazzling vision of white stone, of steps and terraces and cupolas, with a lake in front and imposing trees in every direction.
Notes from designer
This was one of my first ever projects back in TGC19 when I was very raw with the designer, over the last week I've spent about 50 hours renovating the course with the new tools available in 2k21, I'm now happy that this release reflects what a great location Stoke Park is and I hope you all thoroughly enjoy your rounds.
Keep an eye out for the 7th hole which is the signature hole - a 170 yard par 3 over water with a green that perhaps inspired the Redan design used famously by Macdonald and Raynor stateside. Alistair Mackenzie famously said this hole was the inspiration behind the 16th hole at Augusta National - personally I think the 7th at Stoke Park is a superior hole.
Also keep an eye out for the 16th hole which due to a tee manipulation technique, will be driveable on days 1 and 4, that said it is fraught with risk so only the brave should attempt to drive that green!
Stoke Park has served as the filming location for several major films, including James Bond's Goldfinger and Tomorrow Never Dies, Bridget Jones's Diary and Layer Cake. It also hosts the annual Boodles Tennis Championships as a warm-up to Wimbledon, a week prior to the Championships.
In June 2014, Stoke Park hosted an outdoor charity concert for SportsAid (patron: the Duchess of Cambridge). Sir Elton John sang to 5,000 people and raised £825,000.
The Stoke Park estate's history dates back to the time of the Domesday Book. From 1066, the estate was inherited in a direct line of descent for 515 years until it had to be sold to the Crown in 1581 to pay the outstanding debts of Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, whose father Francis, the commander in chief of Henry VIII’s army, had rebuilt the Manor House (part of which can still be seen today) in 1555.
John Penn (1760–1834), a soldier, scholar, and poet, is responsible for most of what can be seen at the estate today. He used a large proportion of the £130,000 the new United States government paid for his family's 26-million acre (110,000 km²) plot in Pennsylvania.
The mansion was designed by James Wyatt (architect to George III) who worked on the development of the mansion and surrounding monuments from 1790 to 1813. The parkland was the product of two geniuses of 18th-century landscape architecture, Lancelot "Capability" Brown and Humphry Repton, who designed in 1792 the landscape that can be seen today.
The estate is listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
The estate was used as a private residence until 1908 when Nick "Pa" Lane Jackson, founder of the Corinthian Sporting Club (Corinthian F.C.), purchased the estate and turned it into the UK's first country club. One of his initial objectives was to commission the famous amateur golfer and course architect Harry Colt (who also designed Pinevalley, Wentworth, Sunningdale, Muirfield and Royal Portrush) to design the golf course. The golf course, along with the tennis courts and the conversion of the mansion, were all completed within eight months.
In 1908, the club’s first president was Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein and the first vice president was the Right Honourable Earl Howe. The committee also included Lord Chesterfield, Lord Kinnoull and Lord Decies.
In his 1910 book, The Golf Courses of the British Isles, Bernard Darwin wrote:
Stoke Park is a beautiful estate, and there is very good golf to be played there. There are plenty of things to do besides playing golf. We may get very hot at lawn tennis or keep comparatively cool at bowls or croquet, or, coolest of all, we may sit on the terrace or in the garden and give ourselves wholly and solely to loafing. The clubhouse is a gorgeous palace, a dazzling vision of white stone, of steps and terraces and cupolas, with a lake in front and imposing trees in every direction.
Notes from designer
This was one of my first ever projects back in TGC19 when I was very raw with the designer, over the last week I've spent about 50 hours renovating the course with the new tools available in 2k21, I'm now happy that this release reflects what a great location Stoke Park is and I hope you all thoroughly enjoy your rounds.
Keep an eye out for the 7th hole which is the signature hole - a 170 yard par 3 over water with a green that perhaps inspired the Redan design used famously by Macdonald and Raynor stateside. Alistair Mackenzie famously said this hole was the inspiration behind the 16th hole at Augusta National - personally I think the 7th at Stoke Park is a superior hole.
Also keep an eye out for the 16th hole which due to a tee manipulation technique, will be driveable on days 1 and 4, that said it is fraught with risk so only the brave should attempt to drive that green!
