Established in 1907, Walsall Golf Club started out with a 6-hole course which was expanded to fifteen holes just two years after the club’s formation. Alister MacKenzie was engaged in 1920 to design a new 18-hole layout then he returned eight years later to make modifications when the club lost land to a local road project.
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Established in 1907, Walsall Golf Club started out with a 6-hole course which was expanded to fifteen holes just two years after the club’s formation. Alister MacKenzie was engaged in 1920 to design a new 18-hole layout then he returned eight years later to make modifications when the club lost land to a local road project.
Walsall
In 1907, Walsall Golf Club started out with a six-hole course that was enlarged to 15 holes in the two years following the club's founding. Alister MacKenzie was hired in 1920 to create a brand new 18-hole course, and he came back eight years after to modify the layout after the club lost its the land to a road construction project in the area.
The current course length is 6,259 yards from the markers at the back with 70 holes (34 out, then 36 in) The holes are laid out in two retuning nines. The smaller outward half (with none of the par fives) is a course that runs around the entire property, completely covering the holes in the inner portion.
The highlights of Walsall include the slightly right-doglegging 5th par 4 (rated stroke index 2,) The longest one-shot hole, the 190-yard 7th hole; the challenging, left-bending 14th par four (rated stroke index one) and The par five 18th that veers left from the tee and features an open ditch that cuts diagonally across fairways in front of the green that is home.
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