Laguna's World Classic golf course expected to be ready by mid-2010
The Laguna World Classic golf course which replicates some of the world's most celebrated holes is expected to be ready by the middle of this year after a two-year delay.
The course will bring a whole new experience to players and spectators in Asia with its unique layout.
The stadium course, a first in Asia, gives spectators and golfers a spectacular view of the course from a single vantage point.
The project started in 2007 and was supposed to have been completed by 2008. But the delay gave Laguna more time to improve on the design of the estimated S$20 million course.
Top American golf course designer Andy Dye, who has designed 60 courses, spent a lot of time on the project and said it is his best work to date.
Dye's other works include Pebble Beach and Village Creek, and the American comes from a family of golf designers with over 70 years experience and having designed 17 of the world's top 100 golf courses.
He said: "It is special. It's going to be around for the next 80 years, it's the future of golf. We have got seven, eight pin positions on every green and we can stretch this out, we can make it play long, short, up, down. So the biggest challenge was to make sure we got it right."
-News courtesy of Channel Newsasia-
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