Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club

Southern England in Kent, near Dover, the course was originally designed by Tom Dixon in 1895, with a redesign by Sir Guy Campbell in 1939. Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club hosted The Open Championship in 1909, won by J.H. Taylor, and 1920, by George Duncan. Two further Open Championships were scheduled to be held there in 1938 and 1948 but both had to be relocated when abnormally high tides inundated the course. Consequently the club was removed from the Open Championship rota, but remains an Open Championship Final Qualifying course (most recently in 2003). This area of Kent is appropriately named Royal Golf Coast due to the proximity of other great courses: Royal St. George's Golf Club, Princes' Golf Club, and. Littlestone Golf Club. The course is pure links, and like Carnoustie, sea views are blocked by a high sea wall. The routing of Deal is of the out and back with a loop at the end, a burn guards the 1st green the ground is full of wrinkles and creases into which bunkers were cut, and the green complexes are well and varied. Beautiful setting, must play.