ENGLISH SENIORS OPEN PRO CHAMPIONSHIP
RETURNS TO NICKLAUS COURSE, ST MELLION
Carl Mason will be afforded the opportunity to extend his remarkable love affair with the English Seniors Open professional championship and also the Nicklaus Course at St Mellion International Hotel Golf & Country Club after Crown Golf, Europe's largest golf owner/operator, announced that it will continue to promote the event in 2007.
This year's English Seniors Open will be played over 54 holes at St Mellion International Hotel Golf & Country Club, Saltash, near Plymouth, Cornwall, from August 17-19, with a minimum prize fund of £150,000.
Among the new players eligible to compete in this year's event is 2008 European Ryder Cup Captain Nick Faldo.
Mason won the first two editions of the English Seniors Open in 2003 and 2004 (at Hillside GC and Formby Hall GC respectively) before extending his perfect record with a one stroke triumph over Stewart Ginn at St Mellion last year.
Crown golf is Europe's largest owner and operator of golf clubs. The company has a total of 56 courses at 32 separate clubs in the UK. Its portfolio caters for all abilities, from entry level to championship standard.
The St Mellion International Hotel Golf & Country Club was opened in 1976. Set in 450 acres of rolling countryside, St Mellion has two courses and is undisputedly one of the finest golf resorts in the UK.
The Nicklaus Course officially opened in July 1988, and was the first golf course Jack Nicklaus designed in the United Kingdom.
RETURNS TO NICKLAUS COURSE, ST MELLION
Carl Mason will be afforded the opportunity to extend his remarkable love affair with the English Seniors Open professional championship and also the Nicklaus Course at St Mellion International Hotel Golf & Country Club after Crown Golf, Europe's largest golf owner/operator, announced that it will continue to promote the event in 2007.
This year's English Seniors Open will be played over 54 holes at St Mellion International Hotel Golf & Country Club, Saltash, near Plymouth, Cornwall, from August 17-19, with a minimum prize fund of £150,000.
Among the new players eligible to compete in this year's event is 2008 European Ryder Cup Captain Nick Faldo.
Mason won the first two editions of the English Seniors Open in 2003 and 2004 (at Hillside GC and Formby Hall GC respectively) before extending his perfect record with a one stroke triumph over Stewart Ginn at St Mellion last year.
Crown golf is Europe's largest owner and operator of golf clubs. The company has a total of 56 courses at 32 separate clubs in the UK. Its portfolio caters for all abilities, from entry level to championship standard.
The St Mellion International Hotel Golf & Country Club was opened in 1976. Set in 450 acres of rolling countryside, St Mellion has two courses and is undisputedly one of the finest golf resorts in the UK.
The Nicklaus Course officially opened in July 1988, and was the first golf course Jack Nicklaus designed in the United Kingdom.
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