Another lesser known Colt course in the English Midlands. Harry Vardon designed the original course and this was heavily redesigned by Colt who was responsible for the heavy use of bunkers. The course looks a bit "vertically challenged" and so I think Colt added all these bunkers to spice things up a bit. Like many of Colt's current parkland courses (as we saw with Edgbaston) the bunker edges are sharp and the sand flashed up. I think that some of the shape and size of these bunkers may have been lost over the years, but overall the course is well preserved.
Looks like the trees need to be cut back and there's absolutely no sign of a "heath", apart from the odd gorse bush.
On the plus side, it looks like it plays nice and fast (a brownish sheen in some places) and the fairway bunkers are true fairway bunkers i.e. surrounded by fairway!
Hopefully I'll check it out one day.
Like the Edgbaston thread, these photos are nicked from the Warwickshire Golf Union website, I'm sure they don't mind!
1st Fairway Bunkers
2nd Fairway Bunkers
3rd Green Complex
4th Fairway Bunkers
4th Green Complex
5th
6th Approach
7th Fairway Bunkers
7th Approach
8th Fairway Bunkers
Further back
10th
11th bunkers short of green
12th Cross Bunkers
13th Green
14th Green Complex
14th-showing severe slope
15th Staggered Bunkers
17th Approach
Bank behind 17th green
Bunkers at 18th
Other side
From behind 18th.