John O'Gaunt (Carthagena) - Bedfordshire - England

Located between Bedford and Cambridge, John O’Gaunt Golf Club is named after the 1st Duke of Lancaster and fourth son of King Edward III, who held the manor of nearby Sutton during the 14th century.

The club was founded in 1948 with an 18-hole course designed by Fred Hawtree and he returned in the 1960s to add another nine holes. His son Martin then fashioned a further nine a decade later, forming the Carthagena course.

Today, the layout measures 5,833 yards from the back tees, with both par and the standard scratch score set at 69. The front nine, featuring three par threes and no par fives, plays almost 400 yards shorter than the inward half.

The back nine starts and finishes with a par five, and in between those two holes there’s a lovely mix of one-shot and two-shot holes, with the tight, left doglegged 16th the signature hole, playing down over a large, centrally-positioned tree to a two-tiered green..