Founded with a 9-hole layout in 1893, Lyme Regis Golf Club extended its golfing layout to eighteen holes in 1931, with Syd Easterbrook from Devon and the Parkstone professional Reg Whitcombe (who later won The Open in 1938) playing an exhibition match to inaugurate the new course.
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Founded with a 9-hole layout in 1893, Lyme Regis Golf Club extended its golfing layout to eighteen holes in 1931, with Syd Easterbrook from Devon and the Parkstone professional Reg Whitcombe (who later won The Open in 1938) playing an exhibition match to inaugurate the new course.
Lyme Regis
The club was established with a nine-hole course in 1893. Lyme Regis Golf Club expanded its golfing course to 18 holes in 1931. It was a great day for Syd Easterbrook of Devon as well as the Parkstone pro Reg Whitcombe (who later won The Open in 1938) playing in an opening match in the new course.
The course is now extended up to 6,264 yards over a 100-acre clifftop location in the Jurassic Coast, and holes are designed as two return nines. Par measures 70 (35 out and 36 in) and there is only one hole that is a par five on the outside half (at the 4th, left doglegging) and two additional holes playing back-to-back between the 14th and fifteenth.
Highlights include the doglegging left 1st (rated stroke index 5) and one of three par 3s, the 8th which is 147 yards (played with a two-tiered green) as well as the long sixteenth, a par 4, (rated stroke index 2,) with fairways stretching along the coast to the green that is shaped like peanuts.
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