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Woburn Golf Club Duchess’ Course Key Information
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| Address | Little Brickhill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK17 9LJ |
| Phone | 01908 370756 |
| Website | woburngolf.co.uk (opens in new tab) |
| golf.enquiries@woburn.co.uk | |
| GFs | £209, packages available |
| Visitor Times | Weekdays, check with club for details |
| Par | Men 72, Women 74 |
| Slope | White/M 139, Red/W 136 |
| Opened | 1979 |
| Architect | Charles Lawrie & Donald Steel |
Woburn Golf Club Duchess’ Course
Golf Monthly Verdict
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For anyone who is intimated by a tree-lined prospect from the tee, the Duchess’ at Woburn will sound a rather loud alarm. Put this to one side, and you can enjoy a beautiful but clearly demanding pine-lined design where accuracy is essential. Scarily narrow at times, the reward for keeping it straight will be the chance to score well and have a real sense of golfing achievement.
Reasons To Play The Duchess’
– Give your driving and long game accuracy its toughest test
– Enjoy 18 very individual, secluded and separate tree-lined holes at this welcoming club
– Decide which of Woburn’s three Top 100 courses is your favourite
Rankings
UK & Ireland Top 100 Golf Courses 2023/24 – 93
The Woburn Golf Club Duchess’ Course is one of three lovely layouts on this expansive estate. If you asked anyone who has played them to sum Woburn up in one word, that word is quite likely to be ‘trees’. Majestic pine dominates the estate and lines and frames just about all of its 54 strong holes of golf which make up the three best golf courses in Buckinghamshire.
And it is on the Duchess’ that trees are at their most imposing and narrow-minded! Here, they hug the holes so tightly at times that golfers may experience a touch of claustrophobia. There are few leading courses anywhere that place quite such a premium on straight hitting. And while you might imagine that the counterbalance for this would be less of a demand for length, that’s not really the case here. On several holes, you also have to drive it long enough to be able to get a sight of the green.
The course opens with a particularly strong and good-looking par 4 that calls for a long approach over a dip and where encroaching trees are an ominous threat. Any tee shot too far from the optimum line here, as well as on other holes, can result in an impeded second. This is followed by a par-3 that sums up Woburn in the space of 188 yards. It appears so narrow from…
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