Golf course architect Ken Moodie, of Artistic Golf Design, has put his cash the place his mouth is and invested in a brand new Mini Golf Course which he hopes will set a brand new normal within the placing course market.
Introduced by David Mitchell, Chester’s flamboyant city crier, former Tour Participant and BBC commentator Ken Brown opened the brand new GreenDay Mini Golf course within the metropolis’s fashionable Westminster Park. Brown is a advisor to Artistic Golf Design and just lately revealed ‘One Putt – the last word information to excellent placing‘, so he was the pure alternative to hold out ribbon-cutting duties.
Though his essential enterprise is golf course design, Moodie just lately took over the lease for the 9-hole, par-3, Westminster Park Golf Course and renovated the café which sits within the coronary heart of the park, inside a mile of the centre of Chester and its well-known racecourse. The GreenDay Café now offers a welcoming setting for native residents and different guests to the park, and the place for golfers to borrow golf gear and revel in a drink after their rounds.
The Mini Golf course was inbuilt simply eight weeks, from begin to end, and in a difficult interval of moist climate. Adi Butt of Lakeland Earthworks did the bottom shaping, following Ken Moodie’s path and help on the dumper, and Southwest Greens equipped and put in the high-quality artificial grass.
The selection of placing grass was extraordinarily necessary to Moodie, who mentioned: “I checked out many options, however most ran too quick to offer a enjoyable and pleasing expertise for a newbie, whereas providing a practical apply expertise for an everyday golfer. I needed one thing that will run at between 9-10ft on the stimp meter which Southwest Greens have been capable of assure.”
Moodie was very impressed by the eye to element offered by the Southwest Greens’ group they usually have been a crucial a part of getting the course open so rapidly, together with serving to to put in the rock edging that types the perimeter of lots of the planting beds. He hopes it could be the primary of many extra collaborations.
