Wentworth Club is a privately owned golf club and country club in Virginia Water , Surrey, on the south western fringes of London , not far from Windsor Castle . The club was founded in 1922. Beijing-based Reignwood Group bought the club in September 2014 and implemented a new debenture membership structure, starting at £100,000. The debenture is now estimated at £200,000. Wentworth is home to the headquarters of the PGA European Tour , the professional golf tour. Each year, it hosts the Tour's PGA Championship , which is played on the club's West Course. Wentworth was the venue of the 1953 Ryder Cup and of the World Match Play Championship from 1964 until 2007. A 19th-century house named the "Wentworths" (now the clubhouse for Wentworth Club) was the residence of the brother-in-law of the 1st Duke of Wellington . It was purchased in 1850 by an exiled Spanish Carlist military commander, Ramón Cabrera , 1st Count of Morella (Carlist title) and 1st Marquis of Ter (Bourbon title), and his heiress wife. After the death of Cabrera in 1877, his widow (née Catherine Anne Vaughn-Richards) bought up the surrounding lands under The Cabrera Trust to safeguard the meadows, brooks and trees (planted from her travels on the continent with her gentrified husband) to form what has become the heart of the Wentworth Estate . [ 2 ] In 1912, builder W. G. Tarrant had started developing St George's Hill in Weybridge – a development of houses based on minimum 1-acre (4,000 m 2 ) plots around a golf course. In 1922, Tarrant acquired the development rights for the Wentworth Estate, getting Harry Colt to design a golf course around the "Wentworths" house. Tarrant erected large residences on the estate using a similar Surrey formula to that used at St George's Hill. However, the development of the Wentworth Estate ground to a halt due to the Great Depression at the end of the 1920s. In 1931, when the banks asked for repayment of a large debenture, Tarrant was forced to declare bankruptcy . Ownership of the land passed to Wentworth Estates Ltd, which came under the control of Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Company . [ 3 ] In 1988, Elliott Bernerd 's property investment company Chelsfield bought Wentworth Golf Club for £17.7 million [ 4 ] (also reported as £20 million). [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Bernerd sold 40% of the club to Japanese investors, raising £32 million, in 1989. [ 4 ] In 2004, Chelsfield sold the remaining 60% share, as fashion industry entrepreneur Richard Caring bought the club for £130 million. [ 7 ] In 2014 Caring sold the club for £135m to Beijing-based Reignwood Investments (a holding company associated with billionaire Yan Bin ), which raised the fees and cut the number of members. [ 7 ] Current debentures cost £175,000 and the annual fees is £16,000. Wentworth Club is best known for its associations with professional golf. It has three eighteen-hole courses: the famous Harry Colt -designed West Course from 1926, the earlier yet lesser-played East Course, which was also designed by Colt in 1924, the recent Edinburgh Course designed by John Jacobs , and a nine-hole par-3 executive course. The headquarters of the PGA European Tour is located at the club, and each year it hosts the Tour's PGA Championship . It was the venue of the 1953 Ryder Cup and of the World Match Play Championship from 1964 until 2007. [ 8 ] The club is surrounded by and entwined with the Wentworth Estate , one of the most expensive private estates in the London suburbs, which was built simultaneously, where many top golfers and other celebrities have homes. One of them is Ernie Els , who became the club's "world-wide touring professional" in 2005. Over the winter of 2005-06 Els, who was developing a golf course design practice, made alterations to the West Course, lengthening it by 310 yards (280 m) and adding 30 bunkers. [ 9 ] Wentworth also has a tennis and health club. The Wentworth Tennis and Health Club comprises a gymnasium, dance studio, health spa, ozone swimming pool and Jacuzzi, crèche facilities , changing rooms, and a café. The extensive facility was completed in 1999 for £9 million by architects Broadway Malyan . [ 10 ] Architect : Harry Colt (redesigned from 2005 to 2017 by Ernie Els ) [ 11 ] Length : 7,284 yards (6,660 m) Course Record : 62, Robert Karlsson , Thomas Bjørn , Alex Norén Key tournaments : HSBC World Match Play Championship , 1964 – 2007: BMW PGA Championship , 1984 – present: Ryder Cup , 1953: World Cup 1956 West Course Scorecard Architect : Harry Colt Length : 6,201 yards (5,670 m) Course Record : 62, Doug N Sewell Key tournaments : inaugural Curtis Cup , 1932; friendly match between US and GB&I (forerunner to Ryder Cup ) 1926. East Course Scorecard Edinburgh Course Architect : John Jacobs (with Gary Player and Bernard Gallacher ) Length : 7,004 yards (6,404 m) Course Record : 67, Gary Orr Tournaments held : Wentworth Senior Masters Edinburgh Course Scorecard Executive Course (9 Holes) Length : 1,902 yards (1,739 m) ↑ "Wentworth Club, Surrey, England" . Reignwood Group. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. ↑ Archives Network Wales – The de Morella Collection ↑ Books, Research and Information – Arts & Crafts Home 1 2 "Chelsfield PLC History" . Funding Universe . Retrieved 5 March 2021 . ↑ Bevan, Judi (1 March 1992). "UK: Profile - Elliott Bernerd - Property Dealer and Head of Chelsfield" . Management Today . Retrieved 6 October 2016 . ↑ Tomkinson, Martin (22 October 2011). "Profile: Just par for his course: For Elliott Bernerd, acquiring the Wentworth golf club marked another great round in a career of spectacular deals" . The Independent . Retrieved 18 February 2021 . 1 2 Subramanian, Samanth (2 March 2021). "The rich vs the very, very rich: the Wentworth golf club rebellion" . The Guardian . Retrieved 5 March 2021 . ↑ "HSBC World Matchplay" . Wentworth Club . Retrieved 11 April 2010 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ( link ) ↑ "Golfing gossip" . BBC News . 22 February 2006. ↑ "Troup Bywaters + Anders" . 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