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Overview
Close to the city of Manchester, this fine course is easy to play during the week, particularly in tandem with meetings where business and extreme pleasure mix very well indeed. The layout is not very long but the tee-boxes are well placed to provide each category of player with a good challenge, and the better players will have to think long and hard and play well to card any sort of score.
On an open moorland landscape, which is unusual so close to a city, the course is very exposed to the wind which can become a major obstacle, particularly on the dog-leg holes, where, as on all Harry Colt courses, you need to think carefully about where to put your drive to get the right approach to greens protected by bunkers, bushes and trees. Strategy is to the fore again at the 12th, where hitting the driver will leave you a short approach shot but a sloping lie, while a 2 iron will leave you on a flat part of the fairway but with a longer approach to the green.
Location
England’s Golf Coast is home to 15 of the finest golf courses in Britain. With no less than seven courses in the ‘Top 100 Courses of the UK & Ireland’ and 9 listed in the ‘Top 100 Courses in England’, the concentration of championship golf available within the North-West of England is unparalleled. The three Open Championship venues of Royal Birkdale, Royal Liverpool and Royal Lytham & St. Annes have hosted The Open an impressive 33 times between them since 1897. The Open was most recently held on England’s Golf Coast by Royal Birkdale in 2017. The region boasts a wide choice of accommodation, exciting tourist…
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