ABOUT THE CHAMPIONSHIP
The English Senior Men's Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship is open to golfers aged 55 or over on the first day of the championship and is played by 54 holes of stroke play over three days at Woodhall Spa Golf Club.
18 holes are played on each of the first two days on two courses. After 36 holes the leading 80 competitors and all those tying for 80th place shall play a further 18 holes on the third day on the Hotchkin.
NEXT YEARS VENUES HOTCHKIN COURSE
In 1902 it became clear that the Golf Club would have to find another home as the land was required for town expansion once again. Local landowner and prominent member, Stafford Vere Hotchkin, offered a sandy tract of land off the Horncastle Road for the building of an 18 hole course (this is the site where the course remains today).
BRACKEN COURSE
Created by Donald Steel, one of Britain’s foremost golf course architects of the modern era, The Bracken Course, which opened in 1998, has evolved into a course of exceptional finesse that is appreciated and enjoyed every day by golfers of all abilities.
Hewn from a contrasting landscape of woodland and arable farmland, the fairways and greenside bunkers are more generous than those of The Hotchkin Course, while the large, welcoming greens are more approachable, yet require thought and touch to master the true-rolling putting surfaces.
