Bedfordshire

John O'Gaunt Golf Club stands as the county's headline act. Its John O'Gaunt course is a magnificent parkland layout, the fairways lined with majestic specimen trees that create a sense of scale and grandeur rare in English inland golf. The Carthagena, the club's second course, complements it with its own character — designed by F.W. Hawtree, with Martin Hawtree completing the second nine in the 1970s, and a memorable split-fairway 16th dropping down to a double-tiered green framed by trees and bunkers.