National Golf Championship goes with a swing at Wyboston Lakes

Ten teams of passionate golfers from leading conference centres around the country could not resist the chance to demonstrate their golfing prowess at the Conference Centres of Excellence (CCE) golf day. This annual event was held for the sixth consecutive year at Wyboston Lakes golf course.

[UKPRwire, Thu Sep 20 2007] Ten teams of passionate golfers from leading conference centres around the country could not resist the chance to demonstrate their golfing prowess at the Conference Centres of Excellence (CCE) golf day. This annual event was held for the sixth consecutive year at Wyboston Lakes golf course.

The competition was played under a glorious sunny sky which made the Bombardier bus, supplied by Wells and Young’s Brewing Company and parked at the 10th tee, a welcome relief. The challenging but thoroughly enjoyable day was topped off with a gala dinner and prize-giving ceremony at Robinson Executive Conference Centre, with entertainment provided by Ashorne Hill Conference Centre’s own rock band, the P45’s.

Warwick University’s Scarman House scooped the top prize, with home team Wyboston Lakes coming a close second. Heading the individual prizes were Lee Folbigg from Wyboston Lakes and Janet Keene from the Scarman team who took the prizes for best male and female scores, with Stephen Quigley from Chartridge Conference Centre winning the prize for the longest drive.

Barry Stonham, operations director at Wyboston Lakes, was delighted with the successful day commenting, “We always enjoy hosting this event for our fellow conference centres. It was a superb day and the golf was played in the usual friendly yet competitive fashion. This is the third year running that Wyboston Lakes have been runners up, so the challenge is to head the honours list next year”.


Kay England, CCE chairman from Imago at Burleigh Court added, “Once again we were made very welcome. The course was in excellent condition and just as challenging as ever. Wyboston Lakes always do us proud, and we look forward to coming back again next year”.
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Date September 2007

Editor’s notes:
High resolution photographs available on request

Additional Site Information
Wyboston Lakes is set in a 350-acre rural site near St Neots, midway between Cambridge and Bedford and is the largest privately owned conference venue in northern Europe. It is the only UK site that offers three different conference venues and two standards of service. The Robinson Executive Conference Centre is the premier award-winning venue, being a previous winner of The World of Learning Training Venue of the Year Award, offering the highest quality facilities with the service to match. The Waterfront Conference Centre, formerly known as The Lakes Centre, and The Willows, a specialist training centre, both provide superb facilities and service at very competitive rates.

This 18 hole, par 70 golf course is set in 350 acres of picturesque countryside amongst lakes and alongside the banks of the River Great Ouse, offering some challenging and interesting holes for all standards of golfer. Wyboston Lakes is one of the few venues where golfers can ‘pay and play’ either on a daily or season ticket basis. The centre also offers a variety of excellent value packages tailored for golf societies and corporate golf days accommodating groups of 12 to 140 with private dining if required. As there are over 406 ensuite bedrooms on site, Wyboston Lakes can accommodate parties to stay for one or more nights and make it a real golfing or activity based holiday.

Investment
During the last 10 years, in excess of £30 million has been invested in the Wyboston site with £0.75 million spent on changes to the highway access on behalf of the County Council
Employment
Currently there are 250 people employed by Wyboston Lakes Limited on site.

Conference Centres of Excellence is a consortium comprising 40 of the leading conference centres in the UK.

For more information about Wyboston Lakes contact the sales team on
Tel: 01480 212625 e-mail sales@wybostonlakes.co.uk

For media information contact Colin Caldicott, Ultimedia Public Relations
Tel: 01767 601470 E-mail: colin@ultimediapr.co.uk

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