Brancaster Golf Course

August 20, 2008 · Print This Article

Known more by its formal name of Royal West Norfolk Golf Club, this golf course was designed and founded in 1892 by Horace Hutchinson and Holcombe Ingleby.  The course has a par of 71 and a total championship length of 6,427 yards.  Players at Brancaster will feel isolated while playing through the course built in and around salt marshes and sand dunes.
Brancaster has been rated one of the top fifty golf courses in Ireland and Great Britain.  The greens are sleepered with excellent cross bunkers.  The area surrounding the golf course includes the sea, farmland, the sea, and marshland that are the home to many rare birds.  The biggest drawback of this gold course is part of the course is inaccessible at times thanks to tidal flooding.  You will still be able to play at the course, but the number of holes you will be able to complete will be diminished.
Golf courses are native to the United Kingdom, having been invented by the Scottish.  Brancaster is one of the true golf courses in the world with forbidding bunkers, difficult roughs to play out of, and firm and true greens.  Players start out with back to back par fours that measure over four hundred yards each.  Each hole has its own unique idiosyncrasy, like marshes and woods surrounding the greens.  Hole number eight is a short par five, but also the hardest hole on the course.  And always make sure you account for the wind coming off the ocean on the outer holes.  They can change your score in a heart beat.

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