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Silloth-on-Solway Golf Club
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Rating: 3.3
Pace of Play
3
Greens
4
Service
4
Value
4
Design/Layout
4
Bit of a quirky course designed by Willie Park Sr and Jr in 1894. It's located on the north west coast of Cumbria, with great views of the Galloway Hills to the north, and south to the Lakeland fells and the distant Isle of Man. Located in far northwest England, west of Newcastle. It's a challenging old links style course that hasn't been altered since it opened. It has a number of blind approaches over the sand hills and dunes, and was obviously designed with the land. Hazards consist of heather and bent; whin and broom; bunkers and sandy waste areas. Fairways are always wider than they seem from the tee, and the greens are subtle, firm, fast, and deadly true. Wind is most always a factor here.
Posted by: AlanMcP
Jul 8th, 2010
Silloth may have the best site of any links course I have played, the most beautiful, and is near certain the most consistent course I have played.Located about as far north and west as it is possible to get and still see the St George's Cross flying from the clubhouse flagpole Silloth should be pictured in the dictionary as the definition of remote, but no detour could be more worthwhile in GB&I than the left turn off the M6 at Carlisle. For those who appreciate value - and don't we all - myself, Mark Pearce and Andrew Mitchell paid the princely sum of £55 to play at 2pm on Saturday and what's more the pro allowed us to play from the members' competition tees. Golf World rates Silloth at 48 in GB&I. I think that does it a disservice. It holds its own in a head-to-head comparison with any golf course I have played. The course opens with a 380y (all distances unless stated otherwise are from from white [second to back] members' tees) par four to a dell green - the first of many blind shots, but the blindness is typically combined with some space and an absence of hazards. An out of place drive can use the front slope to get on the green or therabouts, while the putting surface falls gently from left to right, where balls will feed off if pushed slightly or putted too boldly.
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Sep 29th, 2008
Traveled down from Edinburgh, a very good golf course and a beautiful setting. From the 8th elevated tee, we could see across the Solway Firth to Scotland, and to the southwest, the Isle of Man. The course narrows a bit as it winds its way through the valleys created by the dunes to greens set on plateaus or in small coves. Very friendly club and accomodating.