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Course Profile
This is set to be the first time the World Golf Championships have been hosted in the UK, and also the first time the Top 64 players in the world will play in London. It will be the only opportunity for many of the British public, outside of the British Open, to see the world's golfing greats such as Vijay Singh, Tiger Woods, Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia, Colin Montgomerie, Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood.
Thoughts of golf clubs in the United Kingdom often are painted mental images of dark mahogany rooms with white-haired, aging barmen serving jacketed, pipe-smoking gentleman drams in the drawing room before a fire whist the kidney pie bakes in the back, Guv' nuh.
Phillips designed the golf course in a minimalist fashion that, like the resort, blends the strategy of modern golf with the time-honored traditions of British golf course architecture. The result is a chic, nouveaux track that oozes quality and is fun to play.
"What I am doing now is looking back at the architecture and landforms of the classic British course and recognizing that we haven't been moving forward in the past decades," said Phillips. "My goal is to create equally great new courses that appear as if they have existed naturally for many years, where artificial landforms are indistinguishable from natural ones."
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