![]() ![]() ![]() The large water feature that lies between the final green and the elegant modern clubhouse provides a good excuse to lay-up and play safe. Very few private clubs have opened during recent tough economic times and there is no shortage of golf clubs in this saturated golfing area to the north of London. ![]() The last of all weighs in at 559 yards off the back tees and lives up to its name of Ad Infinitum (all the holes feature Latin names in homage to the Roman heritage of the area). INDIVIDUAL Win: Cameron Smith, -15, 4,000,000 T-2: Patrick Reed, -14, 1,875,000 T-2: Marc Leishman, -14, 1,875,000 4: Louis Oothuizen, -12, 1,000,000 5: Dustin Johnson, -10, 800,000 T-6. Address Hemel Hempstead Rd, Hemel Hempstead HP3 8LA, UK The opening of the exclusive Centurion Club on July 1st 2013 was a surprising event. The water appears again at the splendid 12th, where a lake will embrace any shots that fall short of the green, before the course returns to a more wooded landscape for the final four holes. These should also provide some shelter from a prevailing wind that rather savaged my own scorecard at the eighth and ninth, where one of the course’s four water hazards waits to catch any drives that drift to the left. Those vistas will change over time because the club has planted 30,000 mostly native trees and 5,000 gorse bushes to flank the holes. After five elegant holes set within the woods, the course opens out into more of a heathland feel, with elevated tees to provide commanding views of the target area. The LIV Golf League provides an exhilarating, rapid-fire golf experience as 12 teams of star golfers including major winners such as Phil Mickelson. ![]()
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