Another MoBay tourism project for SuperClubs Joey Issa and The Prime Minister cut the ribbon
Prime Minister P.J. Patterson cut a ribbon last Friday and officially declared open the SuperClubs Golf Club at Ironshore in Montego Bay, as a throng of local and overseas VIPs — including several Caribbean heads of government — looked on.
The leaders, in Montego Bay for a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, included Prime Ministers of the Bahamas, Herbert Ingraham; Basdeo Panday of Trinidad and Tobago; Dr. Keith Mitchell of Grenada; Dr. Denzil Douglas of St. Kitts and Nevis and Own Arthur of Barbados.
Prime Minister Patterson was assisted in the ribbon-cutting exercise by SuperClubs’ executive vice president, Joey Issa.
The Jamaican Prime Minister congratulated the SuperClubs group for opening the golf club and described it as a formidable asset to the island’s tourism product. In turn, Mr. Issa thanked the Prime Minister for agreeing to participate and said SuperClubs was happy to be investing for a second time in the Montego Bay resort area. The group also operates the MoBay Breezes hotel. SuperClubs early last year leased the 18-hole championship facility on a long-term basis from Montego Bay real estate developer, Joe Whitter.
The resort group then put in place a multi-million dollar short-term improvement programme for the facility to blend into what is being planned as four-course ‘golf corridor’ for the Rose Hall area.
The Rose Hall gold destination — an international concept designed to draw some of the most famous names on the global golf circuit to Montego Bay on a regular basis for international tourneys — is to also feature the Half Moon course, the Ocean Course at Rose Hall (for merely the Wyndham Resort course) and the new White Witch course, which forms a part of the Ritz-Carlton Roe Hall Resort complex.