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Phillip Allen

Phillip Allen

President of Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts, leading a collection of bespoke golf-centric hospitality properties in the UK, Ireland, and US.

Jun 24, 2026

NeilHOST
14:30
Yeah.
14:30
And so we said, "No, we're gonna go all in on golf." And then, you know, having, having had the opportunity to, to go around to some of these regional l- UK locations, um, it just sort of occurred to me that a lot of the best golf tourism destinations were not really well-served by hotels, that a lot of the, a lot of the hotels in these areas were not being properly invested in.
14:55
Nobody was doing it at, at scale, and nobody was doing it on a branded basis.
15:00
And you've got a lot of affluent people coming over for this once-in-a-lifetime golf trip.
15:06
They're not necessarily super price sensitive, and they would rather stay somewhere great than stay somewhere mediocre for a lower price.
15:14
And so, um, we literally just started looking around the UK.
15:19
What, what other, what other places are available next to world-class golf courses? And the, the, the second one also happened to be owned by McDonald's, so that's, that was the Marine Hotel in North Berwick.

23 MINS LATER

NeilHOST
38:17
Okay.

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