J.H. Turner, the professional at Frilford Heath, set out the fairways at Burford Golf Club in the mid 1930s when he routed two returning nines over a relatively flat landscape.
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J.H. Turner, the professional at Frilford Heath, set out the fairways at Burford Golf Club in the mid 1930s when he routed two returning nines over a relatively flat landscape.
Burford Golf Club
Situated just off the A40, halfway between Cheltenham and Oxford, the course at Burford Golf Club was designed by the Frilford Heath professional J.H. Turner in 1936. The first nine holes opened for play in May of that year, with the second nine following in September 1937.
Half the course was used during World War II for cereal production and once hostilities ceased the farmer who looked after the crops during that wartime period presented the club with the Harvest Cup, which is still competed for annually to this day.
The course now extends to 6,363 yards, playing to a par of 71. Laid out as two returning nines on a 105-acre property, the outward half lies on the east side of the A361 which bisects the course, with the inward half located on the other side of this road.
Feature holes include back-to-back short par fours at the 4th and 5th, along with the slightly left doglegging par five 9th. On the back nine, the 510-yard 12th in the southwest corner of the course is the longest and toughest of the three par fives on the card.
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