Course Map
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Professional’s Tip
The opening tee shot often creates additional pressure; so don't automatically pull out your driver. Aim to the right half of the fairway as the ground falls away to the left. From there, it's a medium iron for most into a slightly elevated green cut into the hillside slope.
Professional’s Tip
The first of our challenging par 3s can, depending on the wind, be anything from a medium iron all the way up to a utility. The jungle of ferns and heather between tee and green contains many a lost mis-hit, so keep your head down and trust your swing.
Professional’s Tip
Aim your tee shot right to compensate for the slope. Long hitters can reach this par 5 in two, but the green is long, undulating and one of the trickiest. Better to be close to the hole and below it in three shots than a long way away and above it in two.
Professional’s Tip
The yellow tee presents a tougher challenge than the white, being above the green and to its left. This brings the left hand bunker into play and demands a crisp medium iron that will stop in a hurry. The medal tee provides a more open approach, but take enough club – there's a lot of dead ground after the bunker right.
Professional’s Tip
A tough hole that has been the ruin of many a promising scorecard. A tee shot that avoids the heavy rough in the gully front and right sets up a long approach. There's no sand; it's not needed. The green features a strong left to right slope that has seen many a three-putt, especially from above the hole.
Professional’s Tip
A tee shot that requires length and accuracy to avoid the heavy rough, and an approach from an undulating fairway to a narrow elevated green, make this one of the toughest. Most players walking off this (and the last) with no worse than a bogey are likely to have a promising score on their hands.
Professional’s Tip
Provided your tee shot avoids the copse to the right – a hazard with magnetic properties – you should have a medium to short iron in to a wide flat green protected by bunkers front left and front right. Although the dips in the fairway commonly make this a blind approach, it often sets up a birdie opportunity.
Professional’s Tip
Bunkers to the front right and left side protect the third of our par 3s. Anything further left risks being thrown down the slope into the heavy rough and hawthorn trees. The long narrow green widens out towards the back, but from the tee the distance is deceptive; so check the flag colour for the pin placement.
Professional’s Tip
Just to the left of the pine tree that gives the hole its name is a good line from the tee. For most players it's then a long iron to a hilltop green guarded by two bunkers left and one back right. The latter is not visible from the approach and being above the hole, sets a difficult challenge if encountered.
Professional’s Tip
Many visitors cite this par 3 as Matlock's signature hole. An elevated tee gives a panoramic view of the task – a medium iron across a ravine of ferns, heather and gorse to a green cut into the hillside and protected by bunkers front right and side left. Out of bounds is to the right and anything left risks clattering into the woods.
Professional’s Tip
After a tee shot that avoids the left-hand woods and right-hand out of bounds, the Cuckoo Stone and hawthorn bush that comprise our club logo guard the right hand approach to this shortish par 5. Long hitters can reach in two, but if you're laying up, keep to the left for an easy pitch in that avoids the bunker front right.
Professional’s Tip
It looks simple from the tee, but the approach shot makes this a tough par 4. It's uphill and longer than it looks to a green cut into the hillside. Club selection is key. The slope and bunker front left is protection enough against anything short, but go through the green and you face an almost impossible shot back down the gradient.
Professional’s Tip
This hole vies with the 10th as the most memorable. The downhill shot from an elevated tee tempts. After the humps of the buried field walls the fairway does widen out, but then there's a 'do you/don't you' dilemma. Go for the big shot across the Bentley Brook ravine to the small green cut high into the hillside, or lay up – you choose!
Professional’s Tip
If confidence on the tee is justified, this short par 4 offers the chance of a birdie or even an eagle. If not, left lies a steep slope into the woods. To the right waits a bunker – most of which is hidden from the tee. Even if you avoid it, an approach from the right means clearing a line of hawthorns and playing across a long, narrow green.
Professional’s Tip
The last of our par 3s involves a long iron or utility across a ravine. The elevated green is one of the most difficult on the course to catch and to hold. Even if you do, its length and contours together with the pin position will influence whether two putts will be sufficient.
Professional’s Tip
The elevated tee shot across a valley to a tree-lined fairway is challenge enough, but it's then uphill all the way. Other than in high summer, only long hitters have a chance of being on in regulation. Check the flag colour to determine which of the green's two tiers houses the pin and watch out for the centenary ponds hidden to its left.
Professional’s Tip
Another elevated tee and downhill fairway encourages you to 'open those shoulders', but it's towards the end of your round and you might be a little tired, so take care. Trees to the left will limit approach shot options and even a slight curl to the right risks the ground carrying your ball off to the out of bounds.
Professional’s Tip
Our closing hole is an uphill dogleg threaded past copses left and then right. From the tee, the club flagpole is the line for all but the longest hitters. The approach is longer than it looks to a green that slopes from back to front and is guarded by four bunkers, two of which are hidden to the left.
