Reddish Vale Golf Club

Rich in natural features, the course plays a figure of eight shaped layout that requires you to negotiate ravines, gullies, escarpments, and a river, as well as the usual things like bunkers during your round. Flat, boring, tree lined holes which go back and forth and all blend into one? – not here. There are very few inland courses where you could remove every tree and still have a great golf course, but you could here. The magical contours that shape this course explain how it has survived for the last 100 years almost unchanged, and without ever being lengthened. At 6000 yards in length and with a par of 69, Reddish Vale is not a test of who can hit the ball the farthest; it is a far more intriguing and strategical challenge than that. This is a thinker's course where you need to plot your way round…