Oake Manor Golf Club is set in lovely Somerset countryside and the course is genuinely memorable. The 15th, called Waterfall, is perhaps the club’s signature hole which is a cracking risk-and-reward par five to a green surrounded by water.
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Oake Manor Golf Club is set in lovely Somerset countryside and the course is genuinely memorable. The 15th, called Waterfall, is perhaps the club’s signature hole which is a cracking risk-and-reward par five to a green surrounded by water.
Oake Manor
Located six miles west of Taunton town centre, the 18-hole layout at Oake Manor Golf Club is an early 1990s design from Adrian Stiff which was built on a former farmland property owned and operated by Managing director Mike King.
Stretching to 6,105 yards from the back markers and playing to a par of 70 (35 out then 35 in), the course features five par threes on the scorecard. Water hazards, in the shape of brooks and ponds, come into play at half the holes on the scorecard.
Highlights on the front nine include the par four 5th (rated stroke index 1) with water to the left of a narrow fairway, and the short par four 9th which sports several bunkers on either side of the hole as the fairway bends left to a heavily sand-protected green.
The 248-yard 10th is a beast of a par three (rated stroke index 8) with a small pond positioned front right of the green, and the Hillfarrance Brook slashing across in front of the green at the par five 17th, makes this a really tough hole to take on so late in the round.