Played at Silloth on Solway last week - in the extreme NW of England, just across the solway firth from Southerness in Scotland. It's not an easy course to get to but at £35 pounds for a day it represents the best value golf course I've ever played as it is top class links golf.
1st hole - hugely inviting opening shot 380 yards
1st green in a dell
2nd hole - forgot to take a picture - shame. Lovely hole bending right through a valley to a sloping green. 319 yards par 4
3rd hole 358 yards - great hole blind drive over a ridge into a valley
that swings left and steeply up to the green - don't be short or left!
4th hole 372 yards - superb hole. Another blind drive.
To a fantastically difficult approach. Don't be left or right - must be very precise down the prevailing wind in fast and firm conditions.
4th green from the side
5th hole - 482 yards par 5, swinging left along the firth. Lovely views across to Scotland and of the Lakeland hills.
6th hole - 187 yards par 3 downhill
7th hole - 403 yards. Steeply uphill drive - blind second to another green in a dell
green
8th - 371 yards
9th -134 yards - the English postage stamp
Back nine to follow