High Post

With stunning views over Salisbury Plain, High Post Golf Club – founded in 1922 – is an intriguing downland golf course that is named after the site of an ancient gallows-pole. Five-time Open champion J.H.Taylor, in collaboration with Fred G. Hawtree, laid out the course and it’s one of more than a dozen courses designed by this successful partnership during the 1920s.

Nowadays, the course measures a modest 6,305 yards from the tips. With only two par fives on the card, both appearing on the front nine at holes 2 and 6, the par is set at 70. The four par threes all feature well-bunkered greens and the longest of these short holes, the 183-yard 17th, has the added difficulty of playing to a semi-blind putting surface.

Peter Alliss is a big fan of High Post and his favourite hole - one that is said to have made his 18-hole dream course - is the 384-yard 9th, a handsome par four that sets off with a downhill drive to a fairway which then bends slightly right towards a back to front sloping green.