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The National Golf Centre Golf SchoolThe Course:
18 holes. Heathland course. Gently undulating terrain - easy to walk.
Surroundings:
Woodland.
Designer:
Original nine-hole design by Harry Vardon (1903), with bunker design by J.H. Taylor (1904). Extended to 18-holes by Harry Colt (1911); significant modifications during 1920s by Major Cecil K. Hutchison & Colonel Stafford V. Hotchkin (the then owner).
Above distances are for the Hotchkin course. Also at Woodhall Spa is the 18-hole Bracken Course (par-72; 6735 yds from back tees).
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19 miles E of Lincoln
Head east on the B1191 from Woodhall Spa town centre; golf entrance is on the left.
Woodhall Spa (Hotchkin course): Many golfers and golf writers rate the National Golf Centre's Hotchkin course at Woodhall Spa as one of the finest heathland layouts anywhere in the world. It's certainly not one for the faint-hearted, with relatively tight fairways, long carries over heather, and some of the deepest and most fearsome greenside bunkering you’ll ever experience.
The wonderfully natural environment here at Woodhall Spa is home to fairways lined by large tracts of heather that stretch away into the distance. This relatively flat area of heathland is not characterised by prodigious elevation changes and rolling fairways, making the Hotchkin an easy walking course.
The front-nine is played in a relatively open landscape, with wonderfully challenging golf holes demanding good shot-making and solid course management. More trees become evident as you head for home on the inward nine; the course takes on a distinctly tighter and more restricting feel as you hit the finishing stretch. These closing holes demand even greater precision from the tee, with a mix of birch and pine trees hugging the fairways and accounting for anything hit too far offline.
Woodhall Spa's newer Bracken course, is not quite in the same elevated league as the Hotchkin course, but it does provide a gentler and more forgiving outing than its ever-challenging big brother.
Visitors welcome on weekdays and weekends.
Must book in advance. Maximum handicap (Hotchkin course): men 24; women 36. Proof of handicap required.
Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc. [Last updated: 2023].
Players generally walk this course. The club has two one-seater buggies available for hire if required on medical grounds (book in advance).
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The National Golf Centre at Woodhall Spa is the home of England Golf. At the start of 2012 the English Golf Union (EGU) merged with the English Women's Golf Association (EWGA) to form England Golf, the governing body for all amateur golf in England. England Golf is one of the largest sports governing bodies in England, looking after the interests of over 1,900 golf clubs and 713,000 men and women club members.
Hotchkin course:
England's 4th best course (Golf World, 2023).
Britain & Ireland's 18th best course (Golf World, 2024).
World's 58th best course (GOLF Magazine, 2023/24) and 26th best public access course (Golf World, 2023).
Stixwould Rd, Woodhall Spa, Lincs LN10 6QG
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