Ganton Golf Club Course Review - One of Britain's great inland courses, Ganton, the former Ryder Cup host, is steeped in history
Ganton Golf Club Course Review
Green Fee Range: £55-£85
Medal Tee: Par 73 – 6,739 Yards
Visitor Times: Any day of the week, including weekends, by prior arrangements & subject to availability
Website: www.gantongolfclub.com
Significant Changes
Major bunker refurbishment programme started in the winter of 2015 to renovate all 113 bunkers, 18 done last year & 15 being done this year – changes to upgrade the presentation of the course & the look & playability of the rough started summer 2016 – practice facilities updated to provide improved short game facilities as well as providing better focus for long game practice through the creation of a fairway & semi rough – clubhouse renovation programme started in 2015 & continuing through winter 2016 to improve facilities for all golfers using the Club
Ganton Golf Club Course Review
Yorkshire’s finest, which oozes old-school class, dates back to 1891 when Tom Chisholm of St Andrews first laid out a course that would go on to host every major event a non-links course can host, including the Ryder Cup and Walker Cup.
It remains the only inland course to host the Amateur Championship, with golf’s unpaid elite visiting in 1964, 1977 and 1991.
In part, this may be due to the land being blessed with many links characteristics, since many aeons ago it was right by the North Sea.
It may also be down to nearly every bygone golfing great lending a design hand over the years, including Harry Vardon (club professional from 1896 to 1903), James Braid, JH Taylor, Harry Colt, Dr Alister MacKenzie and Tom Simpson.
The heathland layout in the Vale of Pickering boasts deep bunkers to rival Woodhall Spa’s, and swathes of gorse courtesy of a planting programme in the 1930s, so it can defend itself admirably when the wind sweeps in as it often does.
There are too many great holes to list, but the 6th, with a hint of Gleneagles, stands out, as does the very pretty par-3 10th, where the green is heavily bunkered and contoured, but also slightly concave, meaning that only the worst of miscues will suffer, while minor ones may gather back in.
When you play the 17th and 18th, which both cross the entrance road, marvel at the vast pit between the two… and then marvel even more when you learn that this was once a vast bunker maintained by horse-drawn rakes or ploughs!
Ganton Golf Club Course Review – Golf Monthly Verdict
A course with great history that will test all facets of the game
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