PAUL LAWRIE TO DESIGN NEW COURSE
AT BLAIRS COLLEGE

The Herald newspaper has revealed that Paul Lawrie is the "top professional golfer" who will design an 18-hole golf course as part of a £115m redevelopment of the Catholic seminary at Blairs College on the South Deeside Road, only a few miles from the Bridge of Dee, Aberdeen.
Lawrie lives at Bieldside which is across the River Dee on the North Deeside Road.
Developers the Muir Group are planning to turn the site into a hotel, conference and leisure centre.
Lawrie said: "I can see the Blairs Estates from my house and have long thought this would be the perfect site for my first signature golf course development.
"The golf course at Blairs has the potential to provide a wonderful asset for the north east as well as attracting visitors to the area.
"Having played on so many fabulous courses around the world, I have lots of ideas and am itching to get started on my first course design project."
The scheme to convert the former Catholic college will be funded by the construction of 280 new homes on the site.
About £5m will be spent on the course and clubhouse, which it is hoped will be open in five years.
Up to 1000 jobs are expected to be created.
Lawrie will be working with European Golf Design, a firm which upgraded Royal Lytham and St Annes for the Open in 2001.