Wentworth Golf Club
An Oasis in Virginia Water Surrey
Wentworth Golf Club is a magnificent golfing Oasis set
in Virginia Water Surrey in the UK, surrounded by ancient woodland of
pine, oak and birch.
Wentworth Golf Club boast 3 championship courses on the
Wentworth estate, and living a mere 30 miles away in Surrey myself, I
have had the opportunity to have played the most famous of the 3
championship courses, the illustrious Wentworth West Course.
It's such a thrill to have walked the hallowed fairways
and to have played the same magnificent holes such as Ben Hogan, Sam
Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros,
Greg Norman, Nick Faldo, Ernie Els and Tiger Woods.
Club
House Wentworth Golf Club
Picture Courtesy of www.amateurgolfnet.co.uk
Wentworth Golf Club West Course annually host the BMW
PGA
Championships, won this year by Paul Casey, and the HSBC World Match
Play Championships won this year by Angel Cabrera. The West Course has
recently been modernized by Ernie Else thee time major winner and
resident on the Wentworth estate and club member. When he last won the
World Match Play on the Wentworth West Course, he picked up he's
£1million prize, made he's exception speech and walked home!
1st Fairway West
Course Wentworth
Having played Wentworth West Course myself I can tell
you how difficult it really is, particularly for someone off 18
handicap. The first tee is right in front of the magnificent club
house, a 19th Century house which resembles a Castle. All the
fairways are tree lined by the ancient oaks and pines, you must land on
the fairway. The fairways undulate, hardly leaving you a flat lie for
your next shot.
The greens are frightingly quick and difficult to read,
lots of them being two teared greens, so it's imperative to land the
ball close to the pin.
18th hole, West
Course Wentworth
The par 5's are all dog
legs making it extremely difficult for mid to high handicappers to get
there in 2, although the pros look to make birdies on all 4 par 5's on
the West Course with both closing holes par 5's, the 17th measuring 610
yards!
A green fee for
Wentworths West Course is £285.00. Wentworth does boast 2 other
championship courses, the East Course and the more recently designed
Edinburgh Course. But it is the famous West Course which is the jewel
in the crown of Wentworth Golf Club.
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