Course Guide

US Open champion Graeme McDowell reveals where The Ryder Cup will be won and lost, while Celtic Manor’s course supremo Jim McKenzie takes TG on a hole-by-hole tour of a course destined to thrill the world.

No one knows the Twenty Ten course better than Graeme McDowell, who won the Wales Open here this year, and Jim McKenzie, Celtic Manor’s Director of golf courses and estate management. Jim is not only part of the course’s design team; he has also worked with contractors and greenstaff to ensure the immaculate delivery of that vision.

“The course is set up to be a tough but fair test of golf. European captain Colin Montgomerie made it clear that this is what he wants. He wants the best team to triumph.”
McDowell has secured his place in the European team and reckons there will be some home advantage. “The course is not short and playing from the fairways is going to be a premium… and I feel we are better total drivers (distance plus accuracy) than they are.”

Here, the two combine to take us around a course designed for drama.

Click on the pictures below to see Graeme and Jim’s comments.