UK COURSES A golfer’s guide to… YORKSHIRE


An area that has hosted the Ryder Cup on three occasions and can boast golf courses surrounded by heather or framed by the sea, Jeremy Ellwood explores Yorkshire…


5th hole at Ganton Golf Club


Scarborough North Cliff’s 11th hole t


Lindrick: 1957 Ryder Cup venue


he first thing you notice on a map of all Yorkshire’s constituent elements is its sheer size – North Yorkshire alone is larger than any other English county. So no


wonder it boasts more golf clubs than any other, from the moorland courses of the Dales, to some great heathland and parkland offerings, and across to the links and clifftop tracks on the coast. Any three-day trip here will clearly barely scratch the county’s golfing surface – so where best to head? Well, if golf history is your thing, you may know that the White Rose county is one of just two to


Moortown’s 18th: a grand finish


boast three Ryder Cup venues in Ganton, Lindrick and Moortown, the very first home host back in 1929 (for trivia buffs, Roses rival Lancashire is the other). So after brief deliberations, I decided that rather then spreading myself too thinly and really racking up the miles, I would pick off those three famous venues, then head up to Scarborough to take in the seaside resort’s two clifftop tests.


MOORTOWN par 71, 6,767 yards Heading into Yorkshire via some rather unsettled


weather in its Red Rose neighbour, I turned right golf-monthly.co.uk/subscribe 123


Scarborough South Cliff’s 18th hole


YORKSHIRE North Cliff


South Cliff Ganton Moortown Lindrick


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