Formby Golf Club

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Par: 72	Weekday Round: ££££
Yards: 6698	Day Ticket: ££££
Type: Links	Weekend Round: N/A
Holes: 18	Day Ticket: N/A

Hole	White Yards	Par	Yellow Yards	Stroke Index	Ladies Yards	Par	Stroke Index
1	415	4	394	11	368	4	11
2	381	4	372	9	330	4	9
3	518	5	449	3	483	5	3
4	312	4	310	15	306	4	15
5	162	3	153	17	148	3	17
6	402	4	385	7	372	4	7
7	377	4	368	13	350	4	13
8	493	5	480	1	439	4	1
9	450	4	444	5	410	4	5
	3510	37	3405		3206	37
10	188	3	178	16	170	3	16
11	384	4	376	12	367	4	12
12	405	4	385	4	320	4	4
13	380	4	370	10	356	4	10
14	417	4	417	6	340	4	6
15	403	4	393	2	378	4	2
16	127	3	115	18	115	3	18
17	494	5	486	8	430	4	8
18	390	4	380	14	370	4	14
	3188	35	3100		2846	34
	6698	72	6505		6052	70

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Founded in 1884, originally as a nine-hole course designed by Willie Park, and it was extended to 18 holes by the turn of the century. James Braid remodelled the layout in the 1920s and Hawtree and Taylor added their changes in the 1930s. More recently, Donald Steel lengthened the course and it now measures 7,028 yards from the tips.

Formby is a unique course as the holes are routed in a huge anti-clockwise circle around the Formby Ladies’ Club which sits slap bang in the middle of the men’s course. The first three holes follow the railway line, the 4th turns and heads out towards the Irish Sea and at the turn, we meander back home, zigzagging up and down along the way.

Play Formby when you have been sufficiently beaten up by the other windy links courses around Liverpool and Southport, but don’t be fooled into thinking that this course is easy. It certainly is not. Bunkering is strategic, the undulating fairways are very much links-like, the rough is strewn with heather and the pines provide an element of park-like protection from the wind. Formby will suit both links lovers and the player who prefers the softness of inland golf; both these camps will arrive contentedly at the 19th watering hole.

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