US/UK: Resort and golf resort model Marine & Garden has expanded its portfolio in Scotland and North Carolina, marking the group’s debut in the USA.
AJ Capital Companions, which owns the Marine & Garden model, has acquired the Greywalls Resort subsequent to Muirfield Golf Course in Scotland, alongside the Mid Pines Inn and Pine Needles Lodge within the Pinehurst area of North Carolina.
The Mid Pines Inn and Pine Needles Lodge, two Twenties-era sister properties that sit beside Donald Ross-designed championship programs, will endure a renovation led by AJ Capital’s design crew.
Plans embody upgrades to the visitor rooms, new eating ideas, and up to date public areas. Resort friends can even obtain precedence entry to the golf programs and curated golf packages.
Greywalls is an Edwardian property designed in 1901 by architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and panorama designer Gertrude Jekyll. It has been privately owned by the Weaver household since 1926.
By means of a relationship with The Honourable Firm of Edinburgh Golfers, friends of Greywalls will obtain entry to Muirfield. The lodge can even endure a renovation of its interiors and F&B programming.
“These acquisitions signify a pivotal milestone for Marine & Garden,” mentioned Ben Weprin, founding father of Marine & Garden Motels & Resorts and CEO and founding father of AJ Capital Companions. “Since launching the model in 2019, our ambition has all the time been to honour golf’s most legendary locales with world-class hospitality. The addition of those iconic properties—every with deep roots in golf’s historical past—permits us to carry that imaginative and prescient to life on either side of the Atlantic.”
The newest lodge additions brings the Marine & Garden portfolio to eight properties.
Highlights:
• Marine & Garden Motels & Resorts has expanded into the US market, buying Mid Pines Inn and Pine Needles Lodge in North Carolina.
• The group additionally acquired Greywalls Resort in Scotland, adjoining to Muirfield Golf Course.
• All three properties will endure renovations together with visitor room upgrades, new meals and beverage ideas, and modernised public areas.
• Company will obtain precedence entry to Muirfield, Mid Pines and Pine Needles golf programs.
• The additions carry Marine & Garden’s complete portfolio to eight properties.
