Multiple majors winner Nick Faldo has put his name on a new championship golf course which will be built to complement the planned Park Hyatt Hotel intended to replace the demolished Club Med resort in St. George's.

Faldo will design the course which the hotel group hope to be completed by 2011.

"I never wanted to be someone that just stuck my name on a course, turned up at the opening and that was it. I love being out on site and I want to have as much involvement as possible. The finished product will be a Faldo course by design – not just by name," said this year's Europe Ryder Cup captain who made the announcement at a Government press conference on the hotel site yesterday.

Faldo is known for bringing the same level of intensity to his new life as a golf course designer as he did when he was winning six major titles, and dominating the sport as a player in the 1980s and 90s.

Having already designed golf courses from China to Iceland, and from Dubai to Nova Scotia, the former Masters and British Open champion is turning his attention to creating the lay-out which will be built on land previously occupied by the Government-owned St. George's GC which was closed earlier this year.

Faldo said he had big plans to create a challenging environment that would appeal to all levels of golfer.

He visited the area twice yesterday, claiming there was potential to create a 'stunning golf course'.

By the time the projected course is completed in late 2011, the area, he said, would be unrecognisable.

"We're going to change things pretty dramatically, that's the exciting part," said the US TV network analyst who a few years ago rented a home on the Island.

"We've got some wonderful shoreline, so we can get some dramatic holes along there. In Bermuda, like so many courses, we want to get as much length as possible, so we're working on different routes for that.

"But I'm very aware with my business of what level this golf course is, and what type of golfer will be playing, so we will make a beautiful, stunning golf course.

"Actually , the good thing is we are working on a design that probably has two routes. A normal everyday play golf course, and then kind of hopping a little bit across land, re-using a couple of holes again with double greens, things like that, to create a tournament golf course where we can stretch it to 6,800 yards, which is still short by tournament standards, but long by Bermuda standards.

"So that's one of the things we are working on, and there's going to be quite a serious bit of engineering work to make it all happen."

In the past the old St George's course would have been considered one of the least demanding on the Island.

Faldo, however, intends to turn it into a challenge for all golfers.

"It's going to be challenging on all sorts of levels, but the most important thing is the visual challenge, that's the fun bit," he added.

"We want to create something as beautiful as possible and challenging for as many different levels as possible."

Although a danger exists of resort courses appearing much the same the world over, Faldo insists his design will be special and he's determined to use the geography to give the course its own unique feel.

"I've stored up 35 years of inspiration from walking around the best golf courses in the world," he said.

"We'll come up with a theme and that's the exciting thing for me. I don't come with any pre-conceived ideas for any of my projects, otherwise I don't need to come. That's my opinion.

"There isn't really a Faldo signiture, again I'm not really looking for that. I like to enhance each piece of land where it sits on the globe. Don't bring anything to somewhere that isn't already here.

"There are features we can use, obviously the natural Bermuda stone, we've got that wonderful big old wall, the gunpowder wall, which is kind of a feature as well. And there will be a significant wall created to create one of the holes early in the round, so again that will be a feature.

"So the Bermuda stone will become a feature, and we can enhance that with little waterfalls and vegetation, that sort of thing. I'm all about making golf courses beautiful as well as strategically beautiful."