England | Courses & Resorts
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Brocket Hall
Unless blessed with sufficient stamina to take on 36 holes in a day or the wherewithal to stay the night and play two courses over two days, visitors to Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire have an agonising choice – the Melbourne…
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The Oxfordshire
When you’ve got a course that consistently ranks among the best in the country, with some of the world’s leading golf holes, it could be churlish to want more. But that’s exactly what The Oxfordshire coveted after a very successful…
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Woodhall Spa
A colleague of mine once shamefully referred to Lincolnshire as something of a “golfing backwater”. While curious, it was a bizarre, unfortunate and unfair label for a county blessed with a wide range of quality courses as big as befits…
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Moortown
The first time Samuel Ryder’s eponymous event was held in the UK it was held at Moortown, near Leeds, on a course designed originally by Dr Alister MacKenzie, of Augusta National fame. The appropriately named Moortown – a fine example…
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Southport & Ainsdale
Despite staging the second and third Ryder Cup competitions on these shores, Southport & Ainsdale tends to be overshadowed by its more auspicious neighbours, Birkdale and Hillside. But, almost 80 years after its moment in the sun – if Merseyside…
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Ganton
If there is such a thing as an inland links – and purists will fight to their dying breath that there isn’t – Ganton could claim to be the epitome of one. Or of course, you could call it a…
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Wentworth
Wentworth’s West course is not for the faint-hearted, the high-handicapper or those without deep pockets. But its history speaks for itself. In addition to the 1953 Ryder Cup, it has hosted the Canada Cup – the forerunner to today’s World…
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Heythrop Park
Tom Mackenzie knows a bit about course architecture. After all, he’s helped design or refurbish most of the very best golf courses in the world, including four Open Championship venues in recent months.
So when he said the prospect…
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Hanbury Manor
It was a bracing December morning in the Hertfordshire countryside, and I found myself lost in the sprawling grounds of an English stately home, plotting a route around a picturesque golf course, with only the occasional swish of club on…
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Yelverton
Five miles from Tavistock, and situated on Roborough Down within Dartmoor National Park, Yelverton Golf Club is a delightful 18-hole course with great character that is challenging and yet fair to all standards of golfer.
Founded in 1904…
