Historic Woking
Added on November 14th, 2009 by Lorne
Posted in New courses reviewed
Posted in New courses reviewed
As the Old Course at St Andrews has influenced the design of links golf, so Woking’s has influenced the design of heathland golf.
Woking, built in 1893 and designed by Tom Dunn, was the first of the great Surrey heathland courses. Founded by a group of London barristers, the Club in its first years played an enormously important role in the development of English golf.
The new bunkers at Woking in 1901 had seismic implications and ’strategic’ golf architecture was born.