(POUND RIDGE, N.Y.) – Pound Ridge Golf Club – the nationally-ranked, Pete Dye-designed destination course 40 miles north of New York City – has teamed with the Stamford Marriott Hotel and Spa to provide golfers with a Connecticut-based stay-and-play option just minutes from the golf course.
Located just off I-95 in eclectic, downtown Stamford, the Marriott Hotel and Spa offers Pound Ridge-bound players discounted weekday (Monday through Thursday) and weekend rates, free onsite parking, golf bag storage, printed maps, and tee time booking assistance through the hotel’s concierge.
Weekday room rates are $209 and weekend rates are $109 – a 15 to 20 percent savings on the advertised rate. Hotel guests have exclusive access to Pound Ridge’s special advance tee time rates anytime (subject to availability.) The weekday advance rates are $155 and $105 after 3 p.m., and the weekend advanced rates are $195, $150 (after 3 p.m.) and $105 (after 5 p.m.).
“Pound Ridge Golf Club is the premier daily fee course in the region, and a destination that serious golfers should include on their must-play lists,” says Stamford Marriott Hotel and Spa director of marketing Peter Griffith. “We are excited to partner with Pound Ridge to offer a value-rich stay-and-play experience.”
“Marriott is a brand that golfers throughout the U.S. and around the world identify with and trust to provide a seamless, memorable golf experience,” says Pound Ridge general manager Todd Leavenworth. “The Stamford Marriott Hotel and Spa’s location just north of New York City and 15 minutes from the golf course is ideal for traveling golfers in search of comfort and convenience.”
For more information or to book at the Stamford Marriott Hotel and Spa, call 203-977-1217. For more information about Pound Ridge Golf Club or to book tee times: visit www.poundridgegolf.com, call 914-764-5771 or email info@poundridgegolf.com.
About Pound Ridge Golf Club
Opened in 2008, Pound Ridge Golf Club is the only course in New York designed by the legendary Pete Dye. Located in Westchester County, it is less than an hour north of New York City and less than 15 minutes from Stamford and Greenwich, Connecticut. One of the only high-end, public courses in the area, Pound Ridge Golf Club is a full bentgrass facility.
Crafted by Dye, his son Perry and long-time Dye construction manager/lead shaper Michael Langkau, Pound Ridge Golf Club is hewn from 172 acres of magnificent cliffs, streams and wooded hills. Dramatic rock formations and boulders were left onsite, creating one of the most visually stunning settings for golf in the U.S. More than 14,000-linear-feet of rock wall surrounds trees, wetlands and water hazards. These frame contoured fairways which wind through hardwood forests and fescue mounds leading to open meadows with picturesque green complexes.
Pound Ridge Golf Club plays to a par-72 and houses five sets of tees and measures 7,171 yards. It boasts a practice range, short game area and putting green. The property features some of the highest points in Westchester County, with a number of tee boxes offering expansive vistas of the surrounding country. Notable holes include the par-5, 13th – home to “Pete’s Rock,” a giant boulder that rests in the middle of the fairway – and the par-3 15th – dubbed “Headstone” – which is flanked on the right by a large rock outcropping that protrudes into the elongated, 9,000-square-foot putting surface.
Recent accolades for Pound Ridge Golf Club Include:
• “No. 1 New York City Area Golf Course, 2010” – AskMen.com
• “America’s Best New Courses, 2009” – Golf Digest
• “New Golf Development of the Year, 2009” – ABTA Golf
• “Top Ten You Can Play, No. 2, 2008” – GOLF Magazine
• “Best New Courses, 2008” – LINKS Magazine
• “America’s Best New Courses, 2008” – Golfweek
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Shane Sharp
Buffalo Communications
704.519.8381
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