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Drax Golf Club
Played On 05/21/2017Yorkshire's Hidden Gem? They names it right!
Visiting the Drax website they refer to the course as "Yorkshire's Hidden Gem" and to my surprise, they were right!
Tucked away south of Selby I was very surprised at the course I had stumbled upon. The presentation of the course was fantastic with nicely manicured fairways and greens. the greens were a little slow but when speaking to a member of the committee who was very helpful in showing me around, I was made aware that a lot of maintenance had taken place in the past couple of weeks to get the greens in shape for the height of the season.
My honest opinion is that the greens were some of the best I have played thus far in 2017 so I would love to see what they are like in the summer!
This course turned out to be very quirky with some tight shots off the tee to nice wide fairways playing into difficult greens with very subtle movements that certainly tested you. The second hole is a great example of this where the green looks relatively flat, was I wrong! looking at the hole everything rolls left to right, and fast, even single handicappers would do well to stop a ball on that green, it is a real beauty.
Another nice touch is the practise putting green and driving net which I didn't expect to see. It certainly helps blow off any cobwebs in a morning!]
In all, I could go on about my amazing day at Drax, but in short, this is a must play course and one that I would come back to again and again
Drax Golf Club
Played On 01/07/2017Little Beauty!
You may think a 12 hole, ex Power Station course may be short of great challenges. Drax is a real hidden gem, lovely course with some testing holes. There are some lovely walks & even the towers added some "atmosphere" to the surroundings but it is great how the trees now camouflage them in the middle of the course.