Brokenhurst Manor Golf Club

Situated on the southern edge of the New Forest in the village of Brockenhurst, the 18-hole layout at Brokenhurst Manor Golf Club (if anyone knows what happened to the absent "c" please let us know) opened for play in 1919, four years after the golf club was founded. The course – one of Harry Colt’s lesser known designs – is a pleasant, unassuming, woodland track that extends to a modest 6,222 yards from the tips with a par of 70.

Fairways are not as constricted by trees as you might imagine and water plays a part on only a few occasions where small streams cross a couple of fairways. The main defenders of par on the course are the well-placed bunkers and undulating greens, particularly those on the charming par three holes.

Most unusually, the fairways at Brokenhurst Manor are configured in three 6-hole returning loops, the most interesting of which is the “middle circuit” where tough back-to-back par fours in excess of 440 yards at holes 8 and 9 are followed by a brace of challenging par threes at the 10th and 12th holes.

Paul contacted us in February 2018: "The railway company added a 'c' to the village name by mistake hence the different spelling. The club has the original and correct spelling."