Wentworth Club

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Clubhouse during the 2006 HSBC World Matchplay Championship

Wentworth Club is a privately owned golf club and health resort in Virginia Water, Surrey on the south western fringes of London, not far from Windsor Castle, founded in 1926.

Wentworth Club is best known for its associations with professional golf. It has three eighteen hole courses, including the famous Harry Colt-designed West Course, and one nine hole course. The visitor's green fee for the West Course for Summer 2006 is £285 (around 520 U.S. dollars). A few years earlier, when it was £210, it was the highest in Europe according to the British Golf Industry Association. In 2004 the club was purchased by fashion industry entrepreneur Richard Caring for £130 million.

The headquarters of the PGA European Tour are located at the club, and each year it hosts the Tour's BMW PGA Championship and HSBC World Matchplay Championship. It was the venue of the 1953 Ryder Cup.

The club is surrounded by and entwined with the Wentworth Estate, one of the most expensive private estates in the London suburbs, which was built at the same time, where many top golfers and other celebrities have homes. One of them is Ernie Els, who became the club's "world-wide touring professional" in 2005. Over the winter of 2005-06 Els, who is developing a golf course design practice, made alterations to the West Course, lengthening it by 310 yards and adding 30 bunkers. [1]

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West Course

Hole No.	Metres	Yards	Par	Hole No.	Metres	Yards	Par
1	432	473	4	10	168	184	3
2	141	154	3	11	380	416	4
3	425	465	4	12	486	521	5
4	505	552	5	13	430	470	4
5	194	212	3	14	164	179	3
6	382	418	4	15	436	477	4
7	362	396	4	16	350	383	4
8	367	401	4	17	558	610	5
9	410	449	4	18	492	538	5
Front 9	3218	3520	35	Back 9	3464	3788	37
				Total	6682	7308	72