Sport Hull | Golf | Club guides | Hornsea
ESTABLISHED in 1898, Hornsea Golf Club offers a fine parkland course that provides a challenge to golfers of any ability.
Easy to walk, the course has plenty of generous fairways and well-maintained greens.
Relatively close to the coast, the course often picks up the sea breeze that can make the course somewhat more difficult – especially toward the final few holes.
The course is wide open, with lots of space between holes.
It also has two lakes and several smaller ponds, making water features a slight concern on this course.
The first hole is a 326pyard par four; that has five bunkers down the left fairway and with two more on the right of the green.
The second is a long drive and iron shot to a sloping green, before heading into the third – a right side dog-leg that shields greenside bunkers.
Out of bounds lines the right side of the fairway at the fourth, which had a sloping green protected by three bunkers.
The 300-yard par-four fifth hole has a snaking fairway that hides a guarded green with a small pond, and the sixth is a challenging par four with a stepped green.
The short seventh is guarded by five bunkers, while the par five eighth requires a careful shot to avoid a large bunker in the middle of the fairway.
Hole nine runs parallel against hole eight, and the 10th has a ditch and small pond 90 yards from a green that is surrounded by bunkers.
The 11th green can be reached by a drive, but only by avoiding the large pond to the right of the hole. Three bunkers beyond it make the approach to this hole a difficult decision.
A narrow sunken green causes problems on the 174-yard 12th leads to a dog-leg 13th that bunkers either side of the corner with a lake to the left of the green.
a long drive on the 14th will need a good shot to the green to avoid the bunkers, and the 15th has bunkers lined across the fairway 90 yards before the green.
the 532 yard par five 16th has bunkers lined up on the right of the fairway.
Because of that, it is important to keep the ball to the left of the fairway.
the short 17th is 170 yards to the green that is enclosed by four more bunkers, and the 18th needs a good drive to avoid the out of bounds area on the right, before taking on the sloping green that is defended by three bunkers.
It is the bunkers that cause the most trouble on the course at Hornsea, but despite this, Hornsea can prove to be an enjoyable round of golf.
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