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		<title>Beautiful four-bedroom bungalow for sale in England that comes with an 18-hole golf course and clubhouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2023 06:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Spofforth Golf Course and Manor Farm in North Yorkshire are up for sale for over $2.5 million</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1"><span style="color: #999999;"><em><strong>Lister Haigh</strong></em></span></p>
<p class="p1">Very rarely does a chance like this come along. All you need is a passport, a love of golf and a boatload of cash.</p>
<p class="p1">Spofforth Golf Course and Manor Farm in North Yorkshire are up for sale for over $2.5 million (around £2 million), which doesn’t just feature a four-bedroom bungalow but also a 6,176-yard, par-72 course, six-bay driving range and clubhouse, all located on an “undulating and part-wooded property” on 130 northern England acres.</p>
<p class="p1">“While Spofforth Golf Course’s potential for commercialisation is obvious, this attractive property will undoubtedly also appeal to buyers seeking a rural, ring-fenced property for residential, amenity or other uses,” said Ben Allen of HMH Golf &amp; Leisure. “HMH currently has 11 golf courses under offer at various locations around the country and, as always, expect strong interest in Spofforth Golf Course.”</p>
<p class="p1">The course will have its 30th birthday next year, so this is a great time to buy in right before the big ceremony. Originally a family farm, Spofforth Golf Club features a greenkeeping complex and car park with a four-bedroom abode that includes tremendous views, a garden and an additional private driveway. There’s a one-bedroom cottage on the property as well. It seemingly never ends.</p>
<p class="p1">“Spofforth Golf Course/Manor Farm offers an incredible opportunity to purchase land and property of a scale that is rarely seen in a location this close to Harrogate,” added John Haigh of Lister Haigh.</p>
<p class="p1">There aren’t any memberships as this is a pay-and-play facility, so this is your opportunity to really mesh with the locals while getting some good golf in. Prices range between £15-20 depending on what day you can tee off.</p>
<p class="p1">You’ll also be near “a range of amenities including a popular primary school, village shop and post office, church, two public houses and a cricket club.” It really doesn’t get better than this.</p>
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		<title>Take a look at this &#8216;crazy pothole golf&#8217; course on a street in England</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Infuriated by ‘disgraceful’ potholes, Englishman sets up ‘crazy pothole golf’ to get local council’s attention</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1">It takes forever for anything to get done — especially when it comes to the local councils in the UK. A man so infuriated by the way his local council has dealt with “disgraceful” potholes on a busy street has decided to actually do something about it to speed up British construction.</p>
<p class="p1">Part-time gardener Ben Thornbury has ingeniously set up some “crazy pothole golf” on Malmesbury High Street in Wiltshire to showcase how brutal the stretch of road has become and force the hand of the Wiltshire Council.</p>
<p class="p1">“Wiltshire Council, you’re a disgrace,” reads a sign welcoming “golfers” to the unique course. “Fix the potholes. High street crazy potholes golf now open.”</p>
<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-65489 aligncenter" src="https://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/pot-3.jpg" alt="" width="740" height="500" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/pot-3.jpg 740w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/pot-3-300x203.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px" /></p>
<p class="p1">The street, chockful of small independent businesses, hasn’t been patched up for months and Thornbury said that people have been injured due to this neglect. He even went on to acknowledge that stones from the road have been getting kicked up by traffic with one hitting a shop window.</p>
<p class="p1">Wiltshire Council responded to the gesture by telling Thornbury that they’d “been working hard to tackle the issue”, and that the Department for Transport’s Pothole Fund had recently awarded it £3.6 million to begin renovations.</p>
<p class="p1">Thornbury has been pushed to bring the tongue-in-cheek courses on the road “playing golf in all the potholes” across the country. First things first, though, the innovative golf course architect wants to fix his “lovely” local high street.</p>
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<p class="p1">“I have heard from a local shopkeeper that they have begun taking measurements and they plan to resurface the road, although Wiltshire Council hasn’t confirmed this,” said Thornbury.</p>
<p class="p1">That most likely means that things are heading in the right direction, and until the potholes are fixed, you at least have a new golf course to test out.</p>
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		<title>Here is the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series in London</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2022 06:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Here is the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Series in London</p>
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</strong></span>It’s been the foundation of nearly everything written, spoken and otherwise uttered about the LIV Golf Invitational Series. The idea from its inception is that these tournaments would be limited-field, 54-hole, no-cut events but, most importantly, that they would be contested for massive prize money payouts. On Saturday at The Centurion Club outside of London, that will come to fruition for the first time when a winner of the inaugural tournament emerges and is awarded the largest pay day in pro golf history — $4 million.</p>
<p class="p1">Overall, the purse for the individual competition in this first event in the Saudi-backed series is $20 million, with the last-place finisher (48th) guaranteed to make $120,000.</p>
<p class="p1">Additionally, the three top four-man groups in the team competition will split another $5 million among then, the winning squad divvying up $3 million among the foursome.</p>
<p class="p1">Here’s the prize money payout for the field at The Centurion Club.</p>
<h4 class="p1"><strong>INDIVIDUAL</strong></h4>
<p class="p1">Win: $4,000,000<br />
2: $2,125,000<br />
3: $1,500,000<br />
4: $1,050,000<br />
5: $975,000<br />
6: $800,000<br />
7: $675,000<br />
8: $625,000<br />
9: $580,000<br />
10: $560,000<br />
11: $540,000<br />
12: $450,000<br />
13: $360,000<br />
14: $270,000<br />
15: $250,000<br />
16: $240,000<br />
17: $232,000<br />
18: $226,000<br />
19: $220,000<br />
20: $200,000<br />
21: $180,000<br />
22: $172,000<br />
23: $170,000<br />
24: $168,000<br />
25: $166,000<br />
26: $164,000<br />
27: $162,000<br />
28: $160,000<br />
29: $158,000<br />
30: $156,000<br />
31: $154,000<br />
32: $152,000<br />
33: $150,000<br />
34: $148,000<br />
35: $146,000<br />
36: $144,000<br />
37: $142,000<br />
38: $140,000<br />
39: $138,000<br />
40: $136,000<br />
41: $134,000<br />
42: $132,000<br />
43: $130,000<br />
44: $128,000<br />
45: $126,000<br />
46: $124,000<br />
47: $122,000<br />
48: $120,000</p>
<h4 class="p1"><strong>TEAM</strong></h4>
<p class="p1">Win: $3,000,000<br />
2: $1,500,000<br />
3: $500,000</p>
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		<title>Asian Tour stars can’t wait to get started in historic International Series England event</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2022 10:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>By Matt Smith</strong></span><br />
History will be made at Slaley Hall Hotel this week as the Asian Tour hosts its first ever tournament in the UK with the International Series England just outside Newcastle — and the players cannot wait to get started. .</p>
<p class="p1">“I think it’s a great opportunity for the Asian Tour players,” said Gaganjeet Bhullar – the most successful Indian on the Asian Tour with nine victories.</p>
<p class="p1">“In the past we have of course played in Switzerland, but I think playing in the UK is going to be a great experience. I’ve played a lot of golf on the DP World Tour in the UK but playing on the Asian Tour and representing our Asian Tour flag on the UK soil, I think that’ll be great. And it’ll be a great boost for all the youngsters, all the people who are getting ready to move on to the next level.”</p>
<p class="p1">A full field is expected for the historic Asian Tour event, and Sweden’s Bjorn Hellgren is raring to go.</p>
<p class="p1">“I have played quite a few tournaments in this part of the world, but I have not played this golf course,” he told the Asian Tour website. “But seeing pictures of the course, looking at the conditions, I think it’s going to be a fair set-up. We would definitely expect a lot of low numbers. Of course, in the UK, it depends a lot on the weather actually.</p>
<p class="p1">“So, depending if you’re on the good side of the draw, if we get to see some sun, then definitely the boys are ready to take on the best players in the world. So definitely, I’m really, really excited.”</p>
<p class="p1">Also playing this week is Thailand’s Nitithorn Thippong, who claimed The DGC Open in March.</p>
<p class="p1">“For me, it’s amazing, the Asian Tour is going to have an event in England!” said 25-year-old Asian Tour rookie.</p>
<p class="p1">“I’ve never been to England before. It’s going to be awesome and it’s a $2 million purse, it’s a lot. So, I’m just going to have fun. I mean, I never expected that the Asian Tour was going to be in Europe, because it is the Asian Tour. I don’t know how to say it, but for me I am so excited to play.</p>
<p class="p1">“I think it is great that we are playing in UK. The DP World Tour are playing on different continents including Asia, so it is great that Asian Tour are able to host in UK.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>When I heard the rumours about the International Series going to UK I got real excited.”</p>
<p class="p1">Asian Tour prize money has been boosted significantly in recent years thanks to with investment from Saudi Arabia.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1"><span style="color: #ff6600;"><strong>By Matt Smith<br />
</strong></span>Veteran golfer Richard Bland insists he will play at the inaugural LIV Golf Invitational Series event in London next month &#8211; even if he is slapped with a ban from the DP World Tour.</p>
<p class="p1">The 49-year-old Englishman is playing the best golf of his long career since winning the 2021 British Masters and finishing runner-up at the Slync.io Dubai Desert Classic in February.</p>
<p class="p1">The Saudi-funded LIV Golf series begins at the Centurion Club just outside London on June 9, with the three-day event the first of eight competitions each offering prize money worth $25 million.</p>
<p class="p1">The DP World Tour has warned golfers that they could ban anyone who competes in the event, and prevent them from playing in competitions such as the Ryder Cup and Open Championship.</p>
<p class="p1">“I am going to play. If I get banned, I get banned,” Englishman Bland told the BBC. “Most of my career is behind me now as regards playing at the very highest level. I’m 50 years old in six months.</p>
<p class="p1">“I’m a realist. Mother nature does tend to catch up on you. I have an opportunity to play these events and secure my future and I’d be pretty foolish to turn that down.</p>
<p class="p1">Bland, the world No. 48,<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>has requested an exemption to play the 54-hole event.</p>
<p class="p1">“I haven’t been granted the release; I pretty much knew that a couple of weeks ago,” he said.</p>
<p class="p1">“Everybody has their own opinion and are they going to play or not going to play; you can only do what’s best for yourself.</p>
<p class="p1">“I understand some people might not like that but it’s an opportunity for me to make the next stage of my life very comfortable and how can I turn that down?”</p>
<p class="p1">Bland is competing at the US PGA Championship in Oklahoma this week. “The talk of the town is the LIV event; it’s all the players are talking about,” he said.</p>
<p class="p1">“I plan to play those events. That’s the decision I’ve taken and some people will agree with it and some won’t and that’s fine.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>By Robbie Greenfield It is time to challenge the assumption that the famous links courses of the British Isles provide its greatest golfing experience. For sheer enjoyment, architectural brilliance and a captivating setting, the heathland classics offer an alternative adventure that will seduce you on sight and leave you craving more [divider] [/divider] he great [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="p1"><span style="color: #f23e04;"><strong><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-1084" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/profpic_robbie-greenfield-150x150.png" alt="profpic_robbie-greenfield" width="80" height="80" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/profpic_robbie-greenfield-150x150.png 150w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/profpic_robbie-greenfield-300x300.png 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/profpic_robbie-greenfield-55x55.png 55w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/profpic_robbie-greenfield.png 303w" sizes="(max-width: 80px) 100vw, 80px" />By Robbie Greenfield<br />
</strong></span><strong><span class="s1">It is time to challenge the assumption that the famous links courses of the British Isles provide its greatest golfing experience. For sheer enjoyment, architectural brilliance and a captivating setting, the heathland classics offer an alternative adventure that will seduce you on sight and leave you craving more</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1">[divider] [/divider]</p>
<p class="p1"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-1272" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/dropcaps_t.png" alt="dropcaps_t" width="50" height="50" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/dropcaps_t.png 80w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/dropcaps_t-55x55.png 55w" sizes="(max-width: 50px) 100vw, 50px" />he great Bobby Jones was right. When you spend a day at <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.sunningdale-golfclub.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sunningdale Golf Club</a></span>, it’s extremely difficult to leave the place. “I liked [the Old course] so much I wished I could carry it around with me. It suited my game so delightfully,” Jones recalled after carding historic rounds of 66 and 68 in the 1926 Open Championship qualifying<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>that are generally considered to be among the finest ever played.</p>
<p class="p3">If golf is in your blood, you don’t need to be possessed with Jones’ unique genius for playing it to feel the same kind of affection. Today, Sunningdale &#8211; host of the 2015 Senior Open Championship and no less than four Women’s British Opens &#8211; remains one of golf’s greatest delights.</p>
<p class="p3">The mere name itself conjures images of rolling fairways meandering between swathes of heather, clumps of gorse and sandy scrub. Aesthetically, Willie Park Junior’s creation (later updated by the club’s secretary &#8211; and arguably the greatest of all the course architects &#8211; Harry Colt) has few rivals. Each hole seems to deliver a unique and equally perfect configuration of vivid green turf, wispy golden fescue punctuated by bursts of flowering purple heather, against a backdrop of pine, oak and silver birch.</p>
<p class="p3">As with all the truly classic courses, the bunkering flows with the terrain; a concealed scoop in the ground here, a cavernous trap at the base of a natural depression there. Each bunker is immaculately presented and positioned just so.</p>
<div id="attachment_2216" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2216" class="wp-image-2216 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-17-and-1-low-res.jpg" alt="Sunningdale-Old-hole-17-and-1-low-res" width="1500" height="683" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-17-and-1-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-17-and-1-low-res-300x137.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-17-and-1-low-res-768x350.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-17-and-1-low-res-1024x466.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-17-and-1-low-res-800x364.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2216" class="wp-caption-text">A panoramic view of the par 4 17th hole (left) and the opening par 5 hole (right) on Sunningdale&#8217;s Old course</p></div>
<div id="attachment_2217" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2217" class="wp-image-2217 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-five-low-res.jpg" alt="Sunningdale-Old-hole-five-low-res" width="1500" height="1125" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-five-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-five-low-res-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-five-low-res-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-five-low-res-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-Old-hole-five-low-res-800x600.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2217" class="wp-caption-text">Sunningdale Old&#8217;s brilliant par 4 fifth hole features the first ever manmade water hazard to appear on a golf course</p></div>
<p class="p3">Deep into a round at Sunningdale, you reach a state of such tranquility that only the rarest golfing gems can boast, lost in your own private battle with the course and cut off from the rest of the world by the silent wall of trees on either side. And this magic does not only apply to the celebrated Old course. Colt’s New course is perhaps not quite so charming, but it brings a different set of strategic challenges to a more traditional open heathland setting, making the playing of both courses on the same day an unbeatable combination.</p>
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<p class="p3">Together, the Old and New courses at Sunningdale comprise the best 36-hole golfing experience in the UK</p>
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<p class="p3">So good, in fact, that 36 holes don’t seem like enough. As we sat on the clubhouse terrace having played the Old and then the New on a warm, sunny day in mid-July, even the club’s famous afternoon tea couldn’t entirely persuade us that the day’s golfing action was over.</p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">“Do you think they would mind if we snuck out for another nine?” asked my rambunctious American playing partner, Mike, ruminating on a mouthful of scones and jam, before adding: “I’m a heathland guy now. Don’t ever take me to one of your so-called ‘championship’ links courses again.”</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2218" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2218" class="wp-image-2218 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-New-hole-12-low-res.jpg" alt="Sunningdale-New-hole-12-low-res" width="1500" height="1125" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-New-hole-12-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-New-hole-12-low-res-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-New-hole-12-low-res-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-New-hole-12-low-res-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sunningdale-New-hole-12-low-res-800x600.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2218" class="wp-caption-text">Harry Colt&#8217;s New course at Sunningdale is more open and traditionally heathland in style than it&#8217;s sister course the Old. This is a view from the fairway of the long par 4 12th hole</p></div>
<p class="p5"><strong><span class="s2">THE FINEST FORM OF GOLF</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1">S<span class="s1">unningdale was the headliner on our trip to play the five clubs the recently established <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.golftourismengland.com/home" target="_blank">Golf Tourism England</a></span> refers to as the heathland classics, but the truly staggering thing about this collection is their depth in quality. In a combined 108 holes at Sunningdale, The Berkshire Golf Club and Walton Heath, a further 27 at St. George’s Hill and 18 at Swinley Forest Golf Club, you would be hard pressed to pick out a single forgettable shot. We also played <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.worplesdongc.co.uk/" target="_blank">Worplesdon Golf Club</a></span> near Guildford, which provided yet more evidence of the extraordinary volume of great heathland golf in the Surrey-Berkshire area. It was one of those trips where my favourite hole, and even my favourite course, changed on an hourly basis. By the time we reached the magical Swinley Forest (more on that particular gem later) I was ready to join Mike and swear a solemn allegiance only to the courses that possessed this magical combination of springy turf, heather and pine.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2219" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2219" class="wp-image-2219 size-medium" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland-map-300x223.jpg" alt="Heathland-map" width="300" height="223" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland-map-300x223.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland-map-768x571.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland-map-800x594.jpg 800w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland-map.jpg 961w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2219" class="wp-caption-text">The six clubs we visited are all located on the famous Surrey-Berkshire sandbelt to the southwest of London and are within a 25 minute drive of one another</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">You might wonder why Sunningdale’s famous neighbour Wentworth is not included in the cluster. Well, the West course originally designed by Colt but subsequently transformed by Ernie Els and his design team to cater to the requirements of hosting the European Tour’s BMW PGA Championship, no longer exhibits the hallmarks of a quintessential heathland track. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Contrastingly, the courses we played have remained largely unchanged since they were first laid out by the legendary triumvirate of classic course architects between 1901 and 1928: Park Jr, Colt and Herbert Fowler. Indeed, the proliferation of pine trees at several of these clubs has prompted strategic thinning designed to restore some of the open, rolling vistas on the original layouts. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">When you visit any of these five clubs you feel like you are stepping back in time, and I mean that in a good way. The very best parts of the game have been carefully preserved together with a serene ambience, but what was notable on our trip was the total absence of pretentiousness.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2220" style="width: 1664px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2220" class="wp-image-2220 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-Old-course-par-4-4th-hole-low-res.jpg" alt="Walton-Heath-Old-course-par-4-4th-hole-low-res" width="1654" height="1103" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-Old-course-par-4-4th-hole-low-res.jpg 1654w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-Old-course-par-4-4th-hole-low-res-300x200.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-Old-course-par-4-4th-hole-low-res-768x512.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-Old-course-par-4-4th-hole-low-res-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-Old-course-par-4-4th-hole-low-res-800x533.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1654px) 100vw, 1654px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2220" class="wp-caption-text">The Old course at Walton Heath is the closest thing you will find to an inland links. This is a view of the par 4 fourth</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Positioning the heathland classics as a halfway house between parkland and links golf is probably as good a starting point as any, and the experience that most closely resembles the latter is to be found at <a href="http://www.waltonheath.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Walton Heath Golf Club</span></a>. Founded just two years after Sunningdale in 1903 and featuring two courses designed by Herbert Fowler, famed golf writer Bernard Darwin once said: “If there is something golfers want and do not get at Walton Heath, I do not know what it can be.” Sir Nick Faldo has called this the ‘finest, and most authentic’ of all the heathland courses, and it’s got a history to match.</span></p>
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<p class="p3">The courses we played have remained largely unchanged since they were first laid out between 1901 and 1928</p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Walton Heath hosted the 1981 Ryder Cup (a contest that an American team featuring no less than 11 major champions won by a landslide), and the Senior Open Championship in 2011. Furthermore, it has been the USGA’s choice of international U.S. Open qualifying venue for the past 11 years. Comprising the Old and New courses (New being a relative term &#8211; it opened in 1907), 35 of the holes are located on a vast expanse of open land across the road from the clubhouse, practice area, and the first hole of the Old, which happens to be a rather intimidating 235-yard par 3. </span></p>
<div id="attachment_2221" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2221" class="wp-image-2221 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-new-low-res.jpg" alt="Walton-Heath-new-low-res" width="1500" height="1125" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-new-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-new-low-res-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-new-low-res-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-new-low-res-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Walton-Heath-new-low-res-800x600.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2221" class="wp-caption-text">The New course at Walton Heath occupies the same expanse of open land as the Old and is a firm, fast course with plenty of heather</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">It goes without saying that Walton Heath has bundles of charm, prompting Mike to comment on arrival (this time between mouthfuls of bacon roll) that the view across the putting green from the clubhouse patio was ‘impossibly quaint’. Allowing for the fact that being American, Mike tends to describe anything built before 1983 as quaint, he had an inarguable point. Like many old links courses, Walton Heath feels like it has been there forever. The greens flow seamlessly to the next tees just like an old links, and there is an abundance of short par 4s, a type of hole that has been criminally phased out by the modern obsession with 7,000-plus yard courses. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">At 286 yards, the first on the New is one such example, and when Mike’s 3-wood scampered onto the green and came to rest 15 feet from the pin, he turned to me with one of those unbearably smug grins that suggested the next few hours in his company would be challenging. He may have also said: “Yeah, baby.”</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">I needn’t have worried. Walton Heath hosts U.S. Open qualifying for a reason &#8211; it is tricky. Two holes later, we were given a sharp reality check when a pair of drives we had been quite happy with were eventually discovered in ankle-deep heather. By the turn, Mike’s smug grin had turned into a perplexed grimace. “I don’t feel like I’m playing badly at all,” he muttered, while tapping in for another double-bogey on the long par 4 12th.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">A suggestion for the gents when you play at Walton Heath: don’t do what we did and blindly cling to your ego from one of the longer sets of tees. This exposed, breezy heath can beat you up if you’re just a little wayward off the tee, and this form of the game is too much fun to be played from the heather (which as pretty as it is, is no fun whatsoever). <span class="Apple-converted-space">   </span></span></p>
<div id="attachment_2222" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2222" class="wp-image-2222 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Red-hole-5-and-six-low-res.jpg" alt="The-Berkshire-Red-hole-5-and-six-low-res" width="1500" height="616" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Red-hole-5-and-six-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Red-hole-5-and-six-low-res-300x123.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Red-hole-5-and-six-low-res-768x315.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Red-hole-5-and-six-low-res-1024x421.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Red-hole-5-and-six-low-res-800x329.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2222" class="wp-caption-text">The brilliant Berkshire Red course features six par 3s, six par 4s and six par 5s in its par 72 layout. This image shows the par 3 fifth green (left) and the dogleg par 4 sixth fairway (right)</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">While members at The Berkshire and even Sunningdale are often torn between which of their courses is the better, at Walton Heath there is no doubt that the Old is the superior layout. It occupies the more interesting terrain and has a greater variety of holes, together with more unusual quirks. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">From one Herbert Fowler classic to another, our next stop was the majestic <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.theberkshire.co.uk/" target="_blank">Berkshire Golf Club</a></span> near Ascot. Maybe it was the stag emblem on the front gate, or the sight of a member walking up the first accompanied by his dog, but either way we knew instantly that we had arrived at a special, unique club. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Playing the Red and Blue courses at The Berkshire either side of its famous carvery lunch </span>amounts to one of the most enjoyable days of golf you can have in the UK &#8211; or anywhere for that matter. Like Sunningdale, the courses compliment one another. Both wander off deep into the heart of a dense pine forest lined with bracken and rhododendron bushes, but the Red course takes you across higher, more undulating ground. Its unusual configuration of six par 3s, six par 4s and six par <span class="s1">5s is a delightful riposte to the standard par 72 layout, and we were soon wondering why more courses hadn’t copied the formula. “Six outside birdie chances in one round?!” exclaimed Mike rapturously. “That’s more than I have in a year.”</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2223" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2223" class="wp-image-2223 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the-berkshire-Red-hole-2-low-res.jpg" alt="the-berkshire-Red-hole-2-low-res" width="1500" height="629" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the-berkshire-Red-hole-2-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the-berkshire-Red-hole-2-low-res-300x126.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the-berkshire-Red-hole-2-low-res-768x322.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the-berkshire-Red-hole-2-low-res-1024x429.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the-berkshire-Red-hole-2-low-res-800x335.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2223" class="wp-caption-text">The second hole at The Berkshire&#8217;s Red course is a short, uphill par 3. Away to the right the par 5 third hole&#8217;s fairway plunges downhill</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1"> By the exquisite par 3 fifth hole, we were in mutual agreement that the Red course had blown us away. Sliding doglegs, uphill approach shots, fairways that plunged between avenues of pine trees and exhilirating par 3s playing across valleys of heather &#8211; this course is an assault on the senses and every hole seemingly announces itself as a candidate for the best one you’ve played yet.</span></p>
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<p class="p3">A day playing both courses at The Berkshire convinced us that we had stumbled upon some profound golfing secret</p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1">“The Blue cannot live up to that. No way,” asserted Mike at lunch, dividing his attention between this premature course review and a slice of medium-rare roast beef. Well, it did. Ok, I think we’d both pick the Red as a marginal favourite, but it’s mighty close. The Blue opens up with another par 3 and the first few holes are slightly more parkland in style, but we were soon gazing in admiration from every new tee box as the familiar blend of fescue and heather gave way to pulpit greens popping up like islands surrounded by artisitically contoured bunkers.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">The par 3 13th &#8211; one of my favourite holes on either course &#8211; was a great example of this style, with the raised green extending on a platform above a large bunker sporting a full beard of purple heather, and giving way to a steep drop-off to the left. On the rare occasion that we did hit an accurate iron shot, we watched with immense satisfaction as the ball flew above these sensationally picturesque short holes.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2224" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2224" class="wp-image-2224 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Blue-hole-13-low-res.jpg" alt="The-Berkshire-Blue-hole-13-low-res" width="1500" height="690" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Blue-hole-13-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Blue-hole-13-low-res-300x138.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Blue-hole-13-low-res-768x353.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Blue-hole-13-low-res-1024x471.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/The-Berkshire-Blue-hole-13-low-res-800x368.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2224" class="wp-caption-text">The par 3 13th hole on The Berkshire&#8217;s Blue course was one of our favourite short holes on the entire trip</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s3">It was during our day at The Berkshire when we realised that a trip to play the heathland classics could hold its own against any other golfing itinerary on the planet. We knew Sunningdale was going to be sensational, and Walton Heath’s reputation precedes it. But to visit a club where the golf is this good, and where no one there takes themselves remotely seriously, convinced us that we had stumbled upon some profound secret barely 15 miles from one of the world’s busiest airports.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><strong><span class="s2">THE GREATNESS OF HARRY COLT</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1">A<span class="s1">fter playing 72 holes of Fowler’s finest work, it was time to return to our old friend Harry Colt, first to <a href="http://www.stgeorgeshillgolfclub.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">St. George’s Hill</span> </a>and then finally to Swinley Forest. I’ll say this, the man was a genius. It is amazing to think that he designed these courses over a century ago and they are still just as strategic, just as clever and just as downright enjoyable today. From hickory clubs to the very latest titanium composites, manufacturers have poured every last drop of technological know-how into modern club design, and a Harry Colt par 3 still has the ability to make you go weak at the knees. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">You could find plenty of avid golfers in Surrey who would argue that St George’s Hill occupies the finest site Colt was given to work his magic on. As the name suggests, the topography here on this opulent estate on the outskirts of Weybridge, is varied and sweeping. Featuring three nines of Red, Blue (which together make the championship 18-hole course) and Green, the first and 10th holes tumble away in opposite directions from the clubhouse, perched imperiously on the top of the hill.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2225" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2225" class="wp-image-2225 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-hole-1-low-res.jpg" alt="St-Georges-Hill-hole-1-low-res" width="1500" height="966" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-hole-1-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-hole-1-low-res-300x193.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-hole-1-low-res-768x495.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-hole-1-low-res-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-hole-1-low-res-800x515.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2225" class="wp-caption-text">The view from the clubhouse looking up the par 4 first hole at St. George&#8217;s Hill Golf Club</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">St. George’s Hill has the most impressive clubhouse I’ve seen in the UK and I invite anyone to suggest an alternative. It’s a magnificent red-brick building with a terrace that offers panoramic views across the property. As you come up the ninth and 18th holes, the clubhouse, with its giant red and white flag fluttering above, dominates the backdrop. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">While I realise this feature is in danger of sounding like a broken record, the golf here is as fun as the holes are pretty. Colt’s legendary eye for a par 3 was as sharp as ever when he went to work here in 1911, because the third, eighth, 11th and 14th holes are all superb. There isn’t a single flat hole on the course, but the only semi-blind tee shots you face all day are at the 10th and 12th par 4s. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Every so often during the round, a giant mansion will loom up from behind the pine trees like some towering Himalayan peak, and these range from the more attractive old English red-brick style houses to hulking continental structures where presumably the oligarchs go to unwind.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2226" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2226" class="wp-image-2226 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-low-res.jpg" alt="St-Georges-Hill-low-res" width="1500" height="1125" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-low-res-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-low-res-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-low-res-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/St-Georges-Hill-low-res-800x600.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2226" class="wp-caption-text">Harry Colt is renowned for his par 3s, and the four at St. George&#8217;s Hill are all excellent &#8211; perhaps topped by the eighth</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Having played there several times now I have become a huge fan of St. George’s Hill, from its brilliant layout to its friendly and welcoming members. But on a personal note, my favourite of all has to be our final port of call, Swinley Forest. This beautifully eccentric club right next to The Berkshire was Colt’s own favourite too, a design he modestly referred to as ‘my least-bad course’, which is another way of saying it’s one of the best examples of golf course design on the planet. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Back in the early 20th century, the 17th Earl of Derby commissioned Colt to build the course at Swinley under the strict proviso that lady members would be admitted from the start &#8211; the first of so many refreshingly unusual statistics that illuminate the history of the club. The links-like burn that snakes its way across the first and 18th holes had to be moved from its original spot when it was revealed that Lady Derby had trouble carrying it on her opening drive, and so began the culture of a course, and a club, that has dedicated itself to the simple pleasures of the game, with none of the accompanying stuffiness.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2227" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2227" class="wp-image-2227 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-holes-11-and-14-low-res.jpg" alt="Swinley-Forest-holes-11-and-14-low-res" width="1500" height="1125" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-holes-11-and-14-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-holes-11-and-14-low-res-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-holes-11-and-14-low-res-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-holes-11-and-14-low-res-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-holes-11-and-14-low-res-800x600.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2227" class="wp-caption-text">Swinley Forest is a stunningly beautiful course which makes use of the tremendous natural green sites &#8211; here showing the short par 4 11th hole (foreground) and the par 4 14th holes</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">For many decades, Swinley Forest existed in its own bubble, detached from the rest of the world. It has always been a highly private club, but until quite recently, the place was shrouded in mystery. Few knew much about it, and even fewer got to play it. But thanks to the progressive attitudes of current secretary George Ritchie, Swinley has opened its doors &#8211; albeit to the discerning golfer who wants to pay homage to Colt’s greatest masterpiece. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Ritchie has also worked tirelessly to improve the condition of the course. “It deserves to be recognised as one of the best courses in the world, and with that, it deserves to be in the best possible condition,” he told us during our visit.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2228" style="width: 1290px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2228" class="wp-image-2228 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-hole-17-low-res.jpg" alt="Swinley-Forest-hole-17-low-res" width="1280" height="960" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-hole-17-low-res.jpg 1280w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-hole-17-low-res-300x225.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-hole-17-low-res-768x576.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-hole-17-low-res-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-hole-17-low-res-800x600.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2228" class="wp-caption-text">A truly outstanding collection of par 3s at Swinley Forest are completed with the 17th hole and its pulpit green</p></div>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Ritchie knows Swinley will never have the star power of Sunningdale or Walton Heath, but he and everyone at the club are happy in the knowledge that what they have is something unique. “We don’t take many new members because those that join stay here for life,” he told us. “Once you become a member here, it’s very difficult to go somewhere else and experience something better.” It was said so matter-of-factly, but he’s right. The members at Swinley don’t carry handicaps and they don’t hold competitions. Ever. Such administrative affairs merely interrupt the joy of just playing. </span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">And what a joy this course is. If Colt is known for his par 3s (among many other things), it’s here that he discovered the greatest collection &#8211; and such is their quality that he identified the sites for the five short holes first, before building the rest of the layout around them. I haven’t been lucky enough to play New Jersey’s Pine Valley (another course in which Colt had a considerable hand) but if it really does have a better bunch of short holes than Swinley, I truly hope I one day get to see them.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_2229" style="width: 1510px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2229" class="wp-image-2229 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-Hole-4-and-5-low-res.jpg" alt="Swinley-Forest-Hole-4-and-5-low-res" width="1500" height="870" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-Hole-4-and-5-low-res.jpg 1500w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-Hole-4-and-5-low-res-300x174.jpg 300w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-Hole-4-and-5-low-res-768x445.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-Hole-4-and-5-low-res-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Swinley-Forest-Hole-4-and-5-low-res-800x464.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2229" class="wp-caption-text">A view looking back down the par 3 fourth hole at Swinley Forest, with the par 5 fifth fairway in the background</p></div>
<p class="p3"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-2211 size-full" src="http://golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland_Panel.jpg" alt="Heathland_Panel" width="1200" height="1311" srcset="https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland_Panel.jpg 1200w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland_Panel-275x300.jpg 275w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland_Panel-768x839.jpg 768w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland_Panel-937x1024.jpg 937w, https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Heathland_Panel-800x874.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /></p>
<p class="p3">When you stand on the tee of the fourth, you will ask yourself if you’ve ever played a better looking par 3. You’ll be posing the same question on the 10th. The 17th caps an outrageous collection of one-shotters with a hole that must surely have inspired A.W. Tillinghast’s effort on the 10th at Winged Foot West. A pulpit green dares you to hit an accurate shot in the full knowledge that left or right is likely to result in bogey being a good score.</p>
<p class="p3"><span class="s1">Elsewhere, the layout’s endless sequence of majestic pars 4s and its two par 5s frequently cause you to lose focus and just stand there, gazing awestruck at nothing in particular. I did that on the fifth, seventh and ninth tee boxes alone, to say nothing of the occasional fleeting glimpse of other holes you’ve yet to reach, stretching out beyond a row of pines towards yet another perfectly formed crowned green. </span></p>
<p class="p3">In his playing days, Harry Colt used to talk about ‘a craving for my usual game around the Swinley Forest course’. Craving. It’s an apt word for Swinley, and it’s an apt word for the heathland classics in general. Colt’s affection for his favourite course was no different from Bobby Jones’ wish to carry Sunningdale back home with him. These two great courses, together with the others on this trip, are about more than just a rewarding golfing experience. As Mike will happily testify, once you’re bitten by the heathland bug, one visit is nowhere near enough. We’ve already started scouring dates for 2017.</p>
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