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Crowborough Beacon Golf Club Golf Course Map /Crowborough Beacon Golf Club Golf Holes Map
Crowborough Beacon Golf Club Golf Course Review in Crowborough, EN in TN6 1UJ
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Hole MAP
Hole 1
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From The Tee The 1st Hole at Crowborough is a “once played, never forgotten” experience. Bernard Darwin said in 1926 “The first thing that will strike the golfer who comes fresh to Crowborough is the view - I do not suppose there is a wider or more beautiful one in all England”.
From The Fairway
On The Green
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Hole 2
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From The Tee The 2nd at Crowborough is a challenging and demanding hole, classified as Stroke Index 1 and arguably the hardest hole, maybe equal to the difficult 18th.
From The Fairway
On The Green
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Hole 3
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From The Tee The short uphill par three 3rd has changed somewhat over the years. It was once surrounded by four large bunkers to the left and right, front and rear, it was similar to short holes at Sunningdale or Walton Heath and with the addition of the hillside to the right and heather in the carry, it would have provided a visual feast to the discerning golfer.
From The Fairway
On The Green
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Hole 4
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From The Tee As you follow the path through the trees from the 3rd to the 4th, you are greeted with the sight of a challenging looking tee shot, as described by Architect Donald Steel in 1988, “a fine looking hole from the tee where the longer the drive, the straighter it has to be”.
From The Fairway
On The Green
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Hole 5
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From The Tee Almost 100 years ago the 5th was known as Spion Kop and Bernard Darwin said it ”gives us another cheerful drive from a most spectacular tee”. The iconic picture of Henry Cotton driving off in a challenge match in 1937 is a classic portrait of one of the golfing legends playing on our course and it has hardly changed today.
From The Fairway
On The Green
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Hole 6
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From The Tee The 6th hole offers a spectacular short hole named after Speaker Gully of the House of Commons. It is one of our signature holes, yet these days is a different hole than as originally designed. Longer in yards, but not as long a carry due to a change in angle from the original tees.
From The Fairway
On The Green
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Hole 7
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From The Tee The 7th hole is the first par 5 you encounter on the course, and presents a left-right dogleg featuring the unusual challenge of playing across Sweethaws Lane, a Public Highway.
From The Fairway
On The Green It requires a demanding drive to the right hand side of the fairway to allow for the inevitable bounce left on the sloping fairway. Then follows a blind second shot, whether you are attempting to simply find the fairway or attempting to reach the distant green.
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Hole 8
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From The Tee The 8th hole represents part of the major changes from the 1957 alteration to the course layout,
From The Fairway
On The Green with the most significant element being that the green is now approached from a completely different angle than originally designed.
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Hole 9
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From The Tee
From The Fairway The 9th hole is played to a fairway sloping gently from left to right,
On The Green the second shot being played uphill on a left hand dog leg to a sloping green rising from front to back.
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Hole 10
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From The Tee The 10th hole is the second of three par fives at Crowborough Beacon and offers a genuine birdie opportunity.
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On The Green
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Hole 11
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From The Tee The 11th hole was altered in 1957, playing from a new tee to
From The Fairway
On The Green the existing green and changing from a longer, straighter, uphill par 4 to a sharp left-hand dog-leg around some 60 year-old pine trees.
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Hole 12
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From The Tee The 12th hole is unique at Crowborough as almost the only entirely flat hole
From The Fairway
On The Green from tee to green, with the exception of a severe area of deep cross rough at about 260 yards from the back tee. This depression, filled with deep heather and gorse, presents a prO-Blem for the longer striker as the cross rough must be avoided at all costs and in the summer the fast-running fairway will make it tricky to lay up too close.
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Hole 13
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From The Tee The 13th is a short, flat par three played to a green surrounded by 3 bunkers –
From The Fairway 1 on the left and 2 on the right. The bank on the left edge of the green will kick the ball away towards the heather and trees. Sweethaws Lane is a public highway on the right separating the 13th from the 14th fairway.
On The Green
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Hole 14
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From The Tee The 14th hole is the last of our three par fives and offers a magnificent view of the South Downs every step of the way.
From The Fairway Driving out of a tight avenue of trees over a grass, gorse and heather rough you should be able to find the generous, slightly undulating 'links-style', fairway. The prevailing south-westerly wind can blow the ball to the left hand side where the grass rough can be deep although it will normally hold the ball before the tree lined boundary.
On The Green
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Hole 15
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From The Tee The 15th hole is played from slightly elevated tees, driving directly across Sweethaws
From The Fairway Lane to a left to right sloping fairway, which was once upon a time made up almost entirely of closely mown heather. Now it’s disappeared it has been replaced by the finest of heathland grasses which invariably results in a very tight lie.
On The Green
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Hole 16
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From The Tee In 1926, Darwin wrote;- “The 16th brings an opportunity to the long bold driver who can hold his ball well up to the left. It also brings terror to him who tops for there is a gully to carry, and at the bottom of the gully, a stream called Slaughterham Ghyll, the scene of a once famous and bloody fight, so I am told, between the Revenue men and the smugglers.”
From The Fairway
On The Green
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Hole 17
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From The Tee The 17th hole is an uphill Par 3 to a banked, flat, but firm green. Considered by some as a simple hole, it does enjoy simply the best viewpoint on the golf course, second only to the view from the terrace. Back in the 1920’s it was surrounded by bunkers to the right, the left and the rear with Bernard Darwin describing it then as “tricky, tempting us to go for the pin over a bunker and a bank, wh
From The Fairway
On The Green
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Hole 18
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From The Tee Bernard Darwin wrote in 1926: “Finally, the home hole, a really difficult finishing hole with its carry over heather from the tee, and its narrow opening between bunkers, through which the perfectly struck second shot must be steered. And so we are at home again with the restful terrace – or is it a balcony (!!) – close by, waiting to receive us and enjoy the view, as beautiful as ever.”
From The Fairway
On The Green
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