Royal Lytham & St.Annes (pics)

[Ben Stephens]

I played Royal Lytham & St. Annes with my local golf society last week here are some pics
All yardages are off championship tees - I played the visitors tees 500 yards shorter overall

Hole 1   206 yards   par 3


Tee shot


Approach to green


Rear view of green with clubhouse and dormy house in background

Hole 2   436 yards   par 4


Tee shot


Approach to green


Greenside bunkers

Hole 3   457 yards   par 4


Tee shot


Fairway


Fairway bunkers


Approach to green


Front of green


Greenside view from 4th tee


Rear view from 7th tee

Hole 4   391 yards   par 4


Tee shot


Rear view of green

Hole 5   210 yards   par 3


Tee shot


Approach to green


Bunkers


One severe bunker!

Hole 6   494 yards  par 5


Tee shot


Fairway


Massively deep fairway bunker!


Approach


Rear view of green

[Ben Stephens]

Hole 7   555 yards   par 5


Tee shot


Fairway


Approach to green


Rear view of green

Hole 8   417 yards   par 4


Tee shot


Fairway


Rebuilt fairway bunker - a lot of bunkers have been re-revetted throughout the whole course


Cross bunkers 50 yards short of green


Approach to green


Rear view of green

Hole 9   164 yards   par 3


Tee shot


View to green from 10th tee

OUT   3330 yards   par 35


Hole 10   334 yards   par 4


Tee shot


View to green from left rough


Rear view of green

Hole 11   540 yards   par 5


View of forward tees from 10th green


Fairway bunkers


Approach to green

Hole 12   196 yards   par 3


Tee shot


Approach to green


Greenside bunker

[Paul Jones]

Ben,

Were all the rakes inside the bunkers?  I wonder if the R&A will give the same recommendation as USGA for rakes being place outside the bunkers.

Great Pics. Thanks for posting.

Paul

[Ben Stephens]

Hole 13   340 yards   par 4


Fairway


Approach to green


View to green from 14th tee


Rear view of green

Hole 14   443 yards   par 4


Tee shot


Fairway


Rear view of green

Hole 15   464 yards   par 4


Tee shot


Fairway


Photomontage of undulating fairway

Hole 16   358 yards   par 4


Tee shot


Approach to green

Hole 17   467 yards   par 4


Tee shot


Fairway


Fairway bunkers


My ball in the thick stuff!


Bobby Jones plaque


Bobby Jones miracle shot - marked out by little hole before fairway bunker the flag is just visible over the 'rubbish'


Pot bunker 70 yards short of green

Hole 18   410 yards   par 4


Tee shot


Fairway bunker


Rear view of green


View from Gary Player's 'wall'

IN   3552 yards   par 36

TOTAL   6882 yards par 71


The club is considering lengthening the course for the 2012 Open - Mackenzie and Ebert are the design consultants. It has been suggested that Hole 7 and 11 will get new greens. I would have converted 6 into a 490 yard par 4 rather than a par 5. Hole 15 and 17 could be lengthened to just over 500 yards. That would bring the course to over 7000 yards with a par of 70.

The 2008 Lytham Trophy takes place in early May.

[Ben Stephens]

Paul,

The bunker rake head should be inside the bunker and the handle outside it as at most courses in England. This particular rake was put back in bunker wrongly as I was actually in that bunker!.

Ben

[Mark Chaplin]

Ben,

A nice set of photos looks like you had a perfect early spring day. I love the photos of #8 which is a great shortish par 4. RL&StA look like they keep their revetting up to date the usual life span of a bunker is around 10 years so most clubs need to do between 10 and 20 a year to keep everything looking good.

Mark

[Michael Whitaker]

Ben - Great photos! I played there in a driving rainstorm with Andrew Mitchell (the Baildon Butcher)... it's lovely to actually see the course in the sunlight!!!

[Andrew Mitchell]

Ben
A great set of pictures.  The bunkering at Lytham is superb (although perhaps excessive).  The first nine is a tough ask into the wind.

Mike
I still have happy memories of that day at Lytham despite the soaking.  At least the weather was consistent when we were there - we went out in a rainstorm and it didn't relent!