Seaton Carew Golf Club

Dr. Alister MacKenzie's re-design moved parts of the course eastwards into recently created dunes and most of those holes remain relatively unchanged to this day.

Seaton Carew has another claim to fame in being probably the only club to have 22 holes, although only 18 are ever in play at any one time. This quirk of fate allows the club to create two different course layouts, the Old & Micklem, the latter combing most of MacKenzie’s holes with the more recent creations of another great designer, Frank Pennink.

Apart from one or two minor changes of direction the course is basically an out and back layout, with relatively narrow fairways threading their way between low-lying dunes to well-bunkered, fast-running greens. The two signature holes, which feature on both layouts are the 3rd (Doctor), a par-3 of 173 yards played to an elevated green surrounded by eight enormous bunkers; and the 17th (Snag), a 398-yard par-4 where both tee and green are offset from the fairway by about 40 degrees. Whilst there are no fairway bunkers the narrow, two-tier green is guarded by five, all awaiting any stray shot.