Lanhydrock Golf Club, Bodmin, Cornwall

Lanhydrock Golf Club

Cornwall is a county renowned for its beautiful beaches, dramatic coastline and mystical moorland. In a sheltered wooded valley in central Cornwall lies countryside of a softer hue, concealing one of the finest golf courses in the South West. Beautifully moulded into the landscape, Lanhydrock is a favourite for business and pleasure.

Lanhydrock Golf Club is an eighteen hole parkland course with a splendid clubhouse where the warmest of welcomes awaits you. It would be foolhardy to underestimate the challenge of this comparatively short course where one can be lulled into a false sense of security by the gently undulating countryside until you are caught out by one of the distinctive Lanhydrock bunkers or intimidated by a lengthy drive over water. It is a very strategic golf course where poor shots will rarely result in total disaster, but where intelligent strokes will be fully rewarded, and where the local rule is to enjoy.

Play at Lanhydrock can commence from the 1st or 10th tees (both are beside the magnificent clubhouse) but the best place to begin your visit is at the 19th hole. Stand on the clubhouse veranda and drink in the view. Rolling hills and patchwork fields fill the horizon. Stretching out below, amidst a beautiful wooded valley is the golf course; lush undulating fairways, splashes of dazzling white sand and slick, subtly contoured greens framed sometimes by bunkers, sometimes by hazards and nearly always by a splendid mix of trees.

A course not to be missed, Lanhydrock is sensitively designed and maintained to co-exist with nature and is located one mile South of Bodmin.

The Club has been owned and managed since 1993 by the Bond family, creators of St Mellion Golf & Country Club. A warm welcome and hospitality awaits you upon your visit to the club.

Hotels

Carlyon Bay Hotel
Royal Duchy Hotel

The Card

COMPETITION
DATE				TIME				Entry No.	H'cap	R'cd	Indicate Tee Used
A												Par	SSS
B											White	70	69
C											Yellow	70	69
D											Red	71	70
Marker	No.	Yards	Par	Yards	S.I.	A	B	C	D	Points	Yards	Par	S.I.
	1	314	4	302	12						296	4	9
	2	381	4	320	6						312	4	5
	3	423	4	383	3						377	4	1
	4	481	5	469	17						427	5	3
	5	331	4	317	14						306	4	13
	6	187	3	175	4						156	3	7
	7	408	4	405	5						332	4	11
	8	317	4	297	15						294	4	17
	9	309	4	265	10						219	4	15
	Out	3151	36	2933							2719	36

	10	454	4	432	2						397	5	8
	11	185	3	173	11						173	3	10
	12	392	4	385	1						320	4	4
	13	407	4	395	7						334	4	2
	14	300	4	288	18						283	4	16
	15	167	3	153	16						145	3	18
	16	318	4	302	13						295	4	12
	17	201	3	189	8						149	3	14
	18	525	5	495	9						430	5	6
	In	2949	34	2812							2526	35
	Out	3151	36	2933							2719	36
	Total	6100	70	5745							5245	71

Course Description:

Hole 1 - The 1st is a short par four and with the tee shot being downhill to a generous landing area few should have trouble finding the fairway, but from the outset the visitor to Lanhydrock is lulled into a false sense of security. The difficulty comes with the approach which must be hit over a small lake to an attractively sited green, which like several at Lanhydrock, slopes from back to front - towards the waters' edge.

Hole 2 - Like all good designs, the course does not impose itself on the land and the 2nd hole is a fine example of a superbly natural golf hole. Again, at first glance it appears fairly straightforward but with an oak tree protecting the front left entrance to the green, the right side of the fairway should be favoured. There are no fairway or greenside bunkers to negotiate but the green itself gives the impression of sitting on an inverted saucer and the surrounding land is characterised by little hollows and swales.

Hole 3 - Water dominates the difficult 3rd. Two good shots are required to reach the green in two.

Hole 4 - The par five 4th introduces the first of the distinctive Lanhydrock bunkers. 'Dazzling' was the above description and they are genuinely 'Augusta-white' in colour. Moreover, like the hazards on the famous American course, they are invariably large in size, few in number and beautifully sculpted-works of art, in-fact...best avoided!

Hole 5 - Four strong holes are followed by a relatively modest 5th. Direction rather than distance is vital here as with many of the holes at Lanhydrock.

Hole 6 - Then comes the glorious 6th. Pity the golfer who doesn't relish a par three where the tee shot must be struck downhill across a lake to a target green. There may be many similarly styled holes in golf but few can have been as beautifully conceived. The hole occupies its own, almost hidden, corner at Lanhydrock. The backdrop to the green comprises a steep over grown bank, a gently cascading stream and an impressive collection of tall sentinel-like trees.

Hole 7 - Next, switching from 'theatre' to 'fairground' is the 7th and a real rollercoaster of a hole. It begins with an extremely awkward tee shot, one that has to be fired over the crest of a hill to land on a fairway that slopes sharply to the right. This would not be so bad if the hole did not now sweep down to the left. An opening in the trees reveals the green but the flag is often tucked directly behind another of those 'Augusta-white' bunkers.

Hole 8 - The rollercoaster theme continues as the 8th tumbles dramatically downhill all the way from tee to green. The town of Bodmin appears on the skyline and, most conveniently, its famous Beacon Monument helps to align the drive. A pretty journey through an ancient woodland known as Tregullan Moor leads to the next tee. The front nine concludes with a lengthy drive over water, followed by a deft pitch to a slightly raised green.

Hole 9 - Thus the 9th guides the golfer back towards the comforts of the nineteenth hole. If the situation allows, some mid-round sustenance may be a good idea for the back nine commences with a quartet of very demanding holes. In fact, holes 10-13 present arguably the finest, as well as the most difficult sequence at Lanhydrock.

Hole 10 - The dramatic shape of the 10th encourages a swashbuckling 'bite off as much as you dare' approach. From an elevated tee the fairway plunges across a valley and regains its height just as the hole doglegs sharply away to the right. The second shot is essentially a longer version of the tricky approach to the 2nd and its green is every bit as elusive.

Hole 11 - The picturesque short 11th has gained a reputation for being something of a 'wolf in sheep's clothing'. Overhanging trees and a wandering creek combine to conceal some dead ground in front of what is a severely contoured green.

Hole 12 - Tregullan Moor envelopes the 12th hole. For its entire length it is surrounded by a mass of gnarled, wizened old trees and is prickly gorse. As the fairway is only 20 yards wide in parts, accuracy is vital! Like the celebrate 6th, the green enjoys its own secluded cover.

Hole 13 - The long, cleverly bunkered 13th takes the golfer to the highest point on the course. The views are naturally the most spectacular from here and where else do you get an opportunity to contrast a strikingly modern clubhouse with an 18th century Cornish tin mine?

Hole 14 - After such a demanding stretch of holes, the next trio offer some respite: with a helping wind, the par four 14th is just about drivable for long hitters.

Hole 15 - The easiest of Lanhydrock's excellent short holes is played into the prevailing wind which can make club selection difficult.

Hole 16 - The 16th is almost a carbon copy of the downhill, tumbling 8th. You might be tempted to go for the green. However, the reward is rarely worth the risk.

Hole 17 - The penultimate challenge is a par three measuring 200 yards-plus from the back markers. And it plays every inch of its length. One of those ubiquitous creeks and a deep greenside bunker compound the difficulty.

Hole 18 - The par five 18th can offer the chance of closing birdie - but only if the largest inland bunker in Cornwall is successfully avoided. This giant stretch of sand (Lanhydrock's version of 'Hell's Half Acre') occupies most of the land between the 9th and 18th greens. Any hope of impressing those 'bewitched' folk on the verandah with a sneaky 'up and down' from the back of this monster? Certainly ... in our dreams.

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