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The Bond's engaged the worlds greatest ever golfer to design this new championship golf course. Jack Nicklaus personally designed and helped craft the magnificent landscape in creating The Nicklaus International Course - one of few Nicklaus 'Signature' course in the UK and the first outside of America. The success and quality of the Nicklaus course at St Mellion enabled him to develop many other successful course designs in the UK and Europe - but St Mellion was his 'first borne'.
The inauguration of the course took place on 10th July 1988 and was celebrated with a four-ball match between Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Nick Faldo and Sandy Lyle.
There was a brochure created for that memorable occasion and a segment from it read.
For a start Jack had the course he wanted, a creation by which his style and values would be judged throughout the world by countless generations who would come to see it. But it was also a tranquil place of such exquisite natural beauty that some would come just to stand and stare and forget about golf.
Since then, the Nicklaus Course at St Mellion International Resort has hosted the Ladies British Open, six Benson & Hedges Internationals from 1990 - 1995, The English Amateur Championship in 1999 (won by Paul Casey); the blue ribbon event for Amateur Golfers in England and European Seniors Tour events. Winners on this majestic course include Europe's finest players of the last generation - Seve Ballesteros, Jose Maria Olazabal and Benhard Langer.
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