Glen Gorse Golf Club

Don’t take anything for granted at Glen Gorse Golf Club, a well established parkland set-up. You can be having the round of your life but, make no mistake, the wheels can come off big-time coming down the stretch where a trio of ultra-tough par 4s await. There’s a terrific combination of holes with the downhill par-5 5th being the pick of an impressive bunch.

Hopefully, though, you’ve saved some good shots for that stirring finale. When we visited the greenkeepers were hard at work replacing all the sand in the bunkers which unfortunately meant the pivotal penultimate hole was closed.

Glen Gorse Golf Club opened in 1933 but the layout was extended to a par 72 about 20 years ago when two holes were re-designed.