Notts Golf Club - England

Notts Golf Club is a fine and demanding moorland course located in Hollinwell in Nottinghamshire. The course owes its inception to a meeting called in 1887 by the Reverend A. Hamilton Baynes at his home, to which he invited all those in Nottingham interested in golf. Only five hardy souls answered the call, but that was enough to get things going, and the club settled at its present site in 1898. The course was designed by Willie Park, Jr. through a forest of oak, silver birch, and pine. A course of varied terrain, the fairways are surrounded by several varieties of gorse that bloom a bright yellow at different times throughout the year. A rock formation behind the second green is known as "Robin Hood's Chair," since it was here according to legend that Robin sat waiting for Maid Marian. Below the eighth fairway is the holy well or "Hollin well" at the source of the River Leen from which the town takes its name, and which once supplied the drinking water for the monks in the nearby abbey.

Burnham and Berrow Golf Club - England

Burnham and Berrow Golf Club is located by the little seaside resort of Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset in the southwest of England. The course dates from 1891, with J.H. Taylor, one of the great "Triumvirate," serving as the first professional. Over the years, the course was lengthened and holes added to make a full 18, so that it now stretches beyond the Berrow Church that is surrounded by the course. The most distinctive feature is the massive sandhills, with several of the blind shots eliminated over time, so that there is now a mix of holes over the sandhills and along the plain. From the peaks of the dunes around the course there are views across the Bristol Channel and the islands of Steep Holme and Flat Holme out to the Glamorganshire coastline, while turning inland the golfer gazes across the rolling green hills of Somerset with Cheddar Gorge beyond.