Cherry Lodge

You don’t often hear about a golf course with a par of 75 but that was the rating of the original layout at Cherry Lodge Golf Club when it first opened for play in 1969. The layout was remodelled in 2014, transformed into the 6,395-yard course that’s in play today.

Both nines play to a par of 36, with the last six holes routed around the perimeter of the 110-acre property. One of the bigger water hazards arrives late, at the short par four 18th, where a fountained pond protects the front left of the home green.

Other holes of note include the 446-yard par four 4th (rated stroke index 1); the shortest of the par threes at the 141-yard 8th (with a small pond to the front left of the green); and the signature par five 10th which kinks right and uphill to a right-to-left sloping green.