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Southerndown Golf Club
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Rating: 3
Pace of Play
3
Greens
3
Service
3
Value
3
Design/Layout
3
The course is a collaboration of Willie Fernie, Willie Park, Herbert Fowler, H.S Colt, and Donald Steel, starting in 1905. One of the best downland courses in the British Isles, partly due to the talent employed in all the design work as well its location on the Bristol Channel, close to Porthcawl in Wales. It's plenty long at 6,615 yards on the ‘limestone-heath’ outcrop rising over 70 metres from the sea. The course has more than enough heather, bracken and gorse; and at least most of the front nine is routed through dunes for a links like experience.
It's a downland course, due to it links type of land, but miles from the ocean, and the usual wind.
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Oct 5th, 2008
Almost too severe, with the early going tough with a climb of 70 feet, but a great course overall in a great location. It's hilly and exposed, but not on the caliber as Porthcawl, nevertheless worth playing. Watch out for the sheep grazing all over the course.