The newly renovated golf course at Stoke Park Country Club, Spa & Hotel is at the centre of an open day on Saturday, April 29 – when visitors will be able to take a close look at the bunker work which has taken place during the winter.

The historic venue – one of just two five-AA Red Star golf clubs in England – boasts 27 Harry Colt-designed holes and is renovating each loop of nine in turn across three consecutive winters.

The 300 acres of mid-19th century Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown-landscaped parkland in Park Road, Stoke Poges is expected to prove a big attraction on the open day.

But numbers are limited and interested parties should contact James Jewell in the Stoke Park golf department to reserve their place.

He said: “The course is already looking wonderful and we believe both members and visitors will be delighted by what they see in a few weeks’ time.”

The historic land on which it all stands is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and the celebrated course played host to the PGA Matchplay in 1910.

Even more famously it was the scene of the golf match between Sean Connery’s James Bond and Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 film Goldfinger. Stoke Park also has a thriving golf club with around 800 active members.

To register your interest in attending the open day at Stoke Park, on April 29, contact James Jewell on 01753 476348 or email JJewell@stokepark.com.