The Bracken course is the foil to the famous 18 holes of the Hotchkin at Woodhall Spa. Respected architect Donald Steel sympathetically routed the Bracken across a rolling landscape of woodland and farmland in the late 1990s.
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The Bracken course is the foil to the famous 18 holes of the Hotchkin at Woodhall Spa. Respected architect Donald Steel sympathetically routed the Bracken across a rolling landscape of woodland and farmland in the late 1990s.
Woodhall Spa Golf Club (Bracken)
Neil Hotchkin, son of Stafford Vere Hotchkin, sold Woodhall Spa to the English Golf Union in 1995 and within a short space of time Donald Steel was engaged to design a new course called the Bracken which was intended to complement the Hotchkin course in a 36-hole National Golf Centre.
Even though it’s located immediately next to the Hotchkin, the Bracken occupies a contrasting landscape of woodland and former arable farmland, where the fairways and greenside bunkers are a good bit more forgiving than the corresponding elements on its older sibling.
Highlight holes include the par five 4th (rated stroke index 1), which has its green tucked behind a small pond, and the adjacent par four 15th, which is routed in the opposite direction with the two fairways separated by a tree-lined stream that runs the length of the holes.