Eager to revive its fading reputation, Ullna Golf Club has hired Nicklaus Design to overhaul its Sven Tumba-designed golf course.
The course, which opened in 1981, has hosted events on the PGA European Tour, but today it’s too short to challenge big hitters and is no longer considered the top course in metropolitan Stockholm. Worse, the layout -– it’s located along Lake Ullna and is said to have “water, water everywhere” –- gets too wet to stay open consistently for the club’s nearly 600 members.
Nicklaus plans to give the layout some pizzazz, as Tumba is better known in Sweden as a hockey player (he played in four Winter Olympics) than a golf architect. The firm will rebuild the layout’s greens to USGA standards, regrass its tees and fairways (some of the latter will be elevated), rebuild and relocate its bunkers, and add a short-game practice area.
The club has budgeted $6.5 million for the work, which is set to begin next summer. If all goes well, the course will reopen in 2013.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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