Cape Cornwall Club to extend hotel to double room capacity
Work has begun on a £1m investment into facilities at Cape Cornwall Club – England’s most westerly golf complex.
The fortunes of the Cornwall golf club have been transformed since it was bought by Leanne and Andrew Cleary in 2019.
The couple have already invested nearly a £1m into upgrading the course and 15-bed clubhouse/hotel but that figure will have doubled by the time the hotel expansion is completed in 2025.
Last month work started on phase one with eight double rooms due to be completed on June 1st. A further four will be added in 2024 and another three the year after when other parts of the hotel will also be upgraded.
The investment is being made to cope with rapidly-growing number of groups visiting the picturesque course. The Cape Cornwall Club is less ten miles from Land’s End and it is located within an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
It is a far cry from three years ago when the club had just 140 members – it now has 250 – and the site was in desperate need of some TLC.
“The greens hadn’t been watered all summer and were dead, the members were unhappy and the club itself had a poor reputation,” said Andrew. “We immediately focused on the greens and by Spring 2020 they were true, but quite slow, as we had to let the grass grow.
“But as the word has started to spread it has become obvious that we need more accommodation but it hasn’t been easy. We sit on a World Heritage Site in a designated area of outstanding natural beauty and were subject to strict regulation so that the new rooms blended in with the landscape.”
Bookings have already been taken from golf groups for the new rooms in September while the Clearys are always working on making one of Britain’s most remote golf clubs as accessible as possible. This week they agreed a deal which will allow groups of ten or less to hire a private jet which will take them directly to and from Land’s End airport.
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Visitors to Cape Cornwall will also benefit from an indoor heated pool, hot tub and jacuzzi plus a newly-equipped, air-conditioned gym.
In the kitchen they have recently recruited Jamie Porter who was head chef at Rick Stein in Padstow and learned his trade with Michel Roux at The Waterside Inn in Bray. More recently, he has been head chef at The Old Coastguard in Mousehole, so golf guests can look forward to being very well-fed!
Andrew added: “Where else can you get on a private jet with your mates, play golf on the Cornish cliffs, have a private group meal prepared by a top chef and fly home again?”