SCOTLAND'S sporting hopefuls are to get a major boost with the creation of the UK's most advanced multi-sports complex.
The £20 million project based at East Kilbride will offer world-class tennis and golf facilities.
Spread over 100 acres, the facility, called Playsport Scotland, will open in March. It will include the UK's largest indoor tennis centre, gym, footb
all facilities, a 58-bay driving range and Scotland's first "tribute" nine-hole golf course, based on some of the famous holes on Open Championship links courses.
The project will create about 200 jobs.
The course, designed by the former British and world amateur champion Peter McEvoy, will be based around the new PowerPlay golf system, the golfing equivalent of Twenty20 cricket.
Playsport Scotland is a joint venture between Playgolf (Holdings) and Kilmartin Property Group. Jimmy Wallace, Playgolf's commercial director, said: "This groundbreaking project is at the forefront of the development of public sports destinations in the UK. The dearth of good-quality public sports facilities is now an acute national problem and the appetite to change this, particularly within government and local authorities, is growing."
The project has had the support of the sports minister, Stewart Maxwell, the Lawn Tennis Association and Tennis Scotland.
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