At the end of 2020, Lonsdale Links re-opened after an extensive re-design by OCM, the design company of Geoff Ogilvy, Mike Cocking and Ashly Mead. Five new holes were added on new land to the southwest of the old course, with a new clubhouse built close to where the old 1st green once was.
At the end of 2020, Lonsdale Links re-opened after an extensive re-design by OCM, the design company of Geoff Ogilvy, Mike Cocking and Ashly Mead. Five new holes were added on new land to the southwest of the old course, with a new clubhouse built close to where the old 1st green once was.
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Bravo for being bold.
The course has already been described in detail below so I'll just say that I played this course 15 years ago and rated it three balls, so fair to say I appreciate the modern (olden?) changes.
My personal notes from a recent round: A housing development at the top end of the property where the clubhouse was, has given the club liquidity and they've used it to have a new shorter and design-focussed layout developed. The course is now a links style with many well known features and is much more highly rated, nationally. Great fun to play, with swales, bumps in the greens and plenty of short par 4's. Some holes from the old course remain, but refreshed.
One of my favourite courses in the world is Prestwick, so there was probably never any doubt I'd appreciate the quirkiness of the use of template holes. It's been done well.
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