Seahouses Golf Club is a traditional Northumberland links founded in 1913, expanded from nine holes to eighteen in 1976. Situated on the clifftops south of Seahouses village, the layout combines coastal holes with an inland section and features two of northern England's most distinctive par threes — Logan's Loch and The Cove — on a compact, par-67 layout.
Seahouses Golf Club is a traditional Northumberland links founded in 1913, expanded from nine holes to eighteen in 1976. Situated on the clifftops south of Seahouses village, the layout combines coastal holes with an inland section and features two of northern England's most distinctive par threes — Logan's Loch and The Cove — on a compact, par-67 layout.
Seahouses Golf Club
Seahouses Golf Club delivers two par threes, the 10th over Logan's Loch and the 15th across a clifftop cove to the North Sea, that few courses anywhere in northern England can match for drama and originality.
The compact layout, set within the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, sits just seven miles from the A1 and within easy reach of Bamburgh Castle Golf Club, Dunstanburgh Castle Golf Club, and Goswick Links.
Seahouses Golf Club was founded in 1913 as a nine-hole layout on the clifftops south of the village, making it one of Northumberland's longest-established coastal clubs. The course remained nine holes for more than six decades before a significant expansion in 1976 brought the layout to its current eighteen holes. The expansion incorporated land on the inland side of the coastal road, creating a routing that moves between links terrain on the seaward holes and a more sheltered inland section.
A central figure in the club's development was George Logan, a past president of both Seahouses Golf Club and the Northumberland Union of Golf Clubs who went on to serve as president of the English Golf Union. Logan's name is permanently attached to the club's most celebrated feature: a former quarry on the seaward side of the layout that filled with freshwater in the 1920s to form what became known as Logan's Loch. The loch provides the hazard for the par-three 10th hole, one of the two signature holes for which the course is primarily known.
Since the 1976 expansion, Seahouses has hosted numerous Northumberland County competition events, establishing itself as a regular fixture in the county's competitive calendar.
Seahouses Golf Club measures under 5,600 yards from the men's tees at par 67, making it one of the shorter eighteen-hole layouts on the Northumberland coast. The routing divides into two distinct characters: the inland section occupying the first half of the outward nine, and the clifftop links holes that dominate the back nine and provide the course's most memorable golf.
The outward nine opens with an elevated par-three tee shot to a well-protected green with views across the beach, before moving inland to a stretch of holes where several fairways are shared — the 2nd and 17th share one corridor, the 4th and 7th another — a consequence of the compact land available when the course was extended in 1976. Water features recur through the inland section on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th holes.
From the 10th onwards the course reveals its clifftop character. The 10th, named Logan's Loch, is a par three of around 120–125 yards played entirely over the freshwater loch to a narrow green. The hole plays into the prevailing coastal wind and leaves no margin for an under-hit tee shot.
Five holes later comes The Cove, the par-three 15th, where the tee shot carries across a cliff chasm to a long, thin green with the North Sea beyond. At around 120 yards the hole appears straightforward until the wind arrives, at which point club selection becomes considerably more complicated.
The 14th is a contrasting long par three along the coastline, requiring a long iron or fairway wood, with the sea providing out-of-bounds down the left.
The round concludes back on lower ground, with the 18th sharing the 9th fairway and featuring pot bunkers guarding the approach to a well-defended green in front of the clubhouse.
Seahouses Golf Club is a course of two distinct halves, and visiting golfers should arrive knowing that. The inland section, whilst functional, lacks the quality of the clifftop holes that follow. What redeems Seahouses entirely — and for many golfers makes it unmissable on any Northumberland itinerary — are Logan's Loch and The Cove, two par threes with the kind of individual identity that courses many times its length struggle to produce.
As a compact, publicly accessible links on one of England's finest stretches of coastline, within a few miles of Bamburgh Castle Golf Club and Dunstanburgh Castle Golf Club, Seahouses earns its place in any multi-course visit to the north-east.
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