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MJ Abbott is one of the golf industry’s leading contractors, offering a range of construction and support services throughout the UK and Europe. The company works in partnership with clients large and small, and their architects and consultants, on a huge variety of projects. These include golf course construction and renovation, golf course features and infrastructure, and irrigation and drainage systems, as well as water management solutions.

The company’s specialist golf contracting team is renowned for its high standards of workmanship, quality and customer care. MJ Abbott has significant resources available to its clients, with more than 130 highly trained members of staff and an extensive,privately owned fleet of specialist machinery. MJ Abbott’s reputation is evident by its client list, including the R&A, hundreds of private and proprietary golf clubs, and many major resort venues.

The company reconstructed the West course at Wentworth for the BMW PGA Championship,constructed the Twenty Ten Ryder Cup course at Celtic Manor, and built The Grove in Hertfordshire and the Colt course at Close House, both recent hosts of the British Masters. Recent construction work includes the relocation of the 18-hole course to new land for Royal Norwich GC, rebuilding the 18-hole course at La Grande Mare on the island of Guernsey and the reconstruction of The Garden 9 at The Wisley.