L'Ancresse Golf Links, L'Ancresse Rd,
Vale, Guernsey, Channel Islands GY3 5BY
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Phil Sykes (PGA, Club Professional)The Course:
18 holes. Seaside links. Gently undulating terrain - a few slopes to climb.
Surroundings:
Coastal duneland.
Designer:
Scottish course architect Philip Mackenzie Ross made several significant design changes to the original layout.
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By air, or by ferry from St Malo (Fr) or Portsmouth, Weymouth and Poole (Eng).
Royal Guernsey
Royal Guernsey Golf Club (and the L'Ancresse Golf Club) play on a classic open links golf course, known locally as the L'Ancresse Golf Links. With the front-nine playing alongside Chouet Bay, and the back-nine bordering L'Ancresse Bay, sea views and wonderful scenery are a given.
The out-and-back layout criss-crosses the open gently-undulating terrain of L'Ancresse Common. Dotted with defensive "loophole" towers (built in the 1770s), as well as Bronze Age burial sites, the layout's firm and fast fairways (very firm in summer months) place a premium on accuracy and straight hitting. Don't be surprised if the wind also tries to influence your game.
Visitors welcome on weekdays, and after 3pm on weekends.
Must book in advance. Proof of handicap required.
Players generally walk this course.
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L’Ancresse links in Guernsey is home to two prestigious and long standing golf clubs, namely Royal Guernsey GC (est. 1890) and L’Ancresse Golf Club (est. 1895).
Royal Guernsey is one of two golf clubs in the Channel Islands honoured by exercise of the Sovereign's royal prerogative. The Royal titles were conferred on Royal Jersey (1879) and Royal Guernsey (1891) by Queen Victoria.
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