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longer at weekends. the water that features on at least half the which makes a long putt almost a certainty.A buggy is not compulsory but it holes. Finally you reach the eighteenth, which will
provides a comfy seat if waiting to play The first encounter with the water is on either leave you laughing or weeping intobetween shots and shelter from the rain the 538-yard third, also the first of three your beer.The tee shot at this magnificent
if you are unlucky enough to have par 5s on the Brabazon. A lake to the front 423-yard par 4 dogleg left is over waterbooked on a rainy day. And at the left of the green proves a hazard to long which then runs all the way down the left
Brabazon it is a really useful tool. Just hitters tempted to go for the green in two of the fairway and across the front of oneabove the windscreen is an electronic and to the rest of us mortals whose third of the toughest greens in golf.It is a great
display giving the yardage from where shot will be the approach to the green. The closing hole and a fitting finale to a fineyour ball lies to the pin position for the sixth hole,a395-yard par 4 dogleg left, was championship course.
day – almost as good as a local caddy. new in 2007 and is set to become one of Your golfing experience does not have toThe 411-yard par 4 first is an inviting the best holes on the course.Along lake end at the eighteenth. The Belfry boasts
opening hole with little to trap any but lines the entire left hand side of the fairway one of the largest golf shops in Europethe longest hitter,who may encounter and would provide a great source of lake (selling around 700 sets of clubs a week, so
either of the two enormous bunkers on balls if it were ever dredged. prices are keen) and the PGA Nationalthe right. The Brabazon fairways are The first of the three par 3s is the 177- Golf Academy, offering a 34-bay floodlit
all wide and in immaculate condition, yard seventh, with a massive bunker driving range,tuition from one of moredue in no small measure to a small catching all who are short of the upturned than 20 Belfry-based pros and a custom
team of ground staffwhose sole job it saucer of a green. The eighth and ninth, fitting service to find the perfect clubs tois,day after day, to fill in the fairway both par 4s,see yet more water,bringing suit your individual swing and physique.
divots with a mixture of sand and grass you to the famous tenth where Ballesteros Be warned, however,there is at least a two-seed. The sand in the bunkers is fairly was the first tour golfer to hit a perfect fade week booking time for the custom-fitting
shallow and the rough is kept short to over the trees and water into the centre of service.speed up play. There is also plenty of the green. This is a delightful hole and well Current offers include a round of golf on the
room to manufacture a shot between worth the visit in itself. Brabazon, a round on The Derby and an overnightthe well-spaced trees that border each The best of the par 3s is the 208-yard stay at The Belfry for £140. For further details
hole.The way most players lose balls twelfth, entirely tree lined with water call 08708 000066 or visit the website aton the Brabazon is in guarding the front of the
www.thebelfry.co.uk
huge green
The Belfry’s putting green in front of the main club View from the tee down Fantastic view of the Belfry’s 10th green
house the 1st
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