Bradnor Hill,
Kington, Herefordshire HR5 3RE
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Keith Preece (PGA Head Professional)The Course:
18 holes. Parkland/moorland course. Undulating terrain - several slopes to climb.
Surroundings:
Moorland and woodland.
Designer:
Major Cecil K. Hutchison.
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1.5 mi N of Kington / 58 mi W of Birmingham.
Kington
Kington Golf Club: located a stone's throw from the England-Wales border, England's highest 18-hole golf course climbs its way to the top of Bradnor Hill (391 m, 1283 ft above sea level). From here you'll enjoy magnificent panoramas overlooking the Brecon Beacons, the Black Mountains, Malvern Hills, as well as the Shropshire and Clee hills.
Renowned golf architect, Major Cecil Hutchinson showed great vision and skill when he converted the unpromising terrain of Bradnor Hill into what is now acknowledged as a fine inland-links course. Plenty of sheep keep the relatively narrow tilted fairways trimmed, while ever-present gorse and ferns lie beyond the short grass should you stray too far offline.
You'll not find any sand bunkers (or water hazards) on this immensely scenic and exposed layout, but there's grass hollows and depressions guarding several of the not overly large greens. A well-known walkers' trail, Offa's Dyke Path, cuts across a couple of holes close to the clubhouse.
Visitors welcome on weekdays and weekends.
Must book in advance.
Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc. [Last updated: 2023].
Players generally walk this course. Golf carts available for hire.
Limited
Kington's designer Major Cecil K. Hutchison (1877-1941) was educated at Eton College, becoming an excellent cricketer and amateur golfer in the process. He represented Scotland at golf. In the 1909 Amateur Championship he lost by one hole to Robert Maxwell, who had beaten the great golf writer Bernard Darwin in one of the semi-finals. After Eton, Hutchinson served with distinction in the Coldstream Guards, seeing active service in the Boer War. In World War One he became a PoW when his trench was overrun, and saw out the war from January 1915 until December 1918 in PoW camps in Germany and Switzerland.
Following the war Hutchinson became one of a group of emerging designers led by the famous Willie Park Jr. The group included legendary course architects Alister MacKenzie, Harry Colt, James Braid, Herbert Fowler and Donald Ross. Hutchinson had already worked with Braid at Gleneagles and Carnoustie and later with Col. Stafford Vere Hotchkin to redesign Woodhall Spa.
Hotchkin and Hutchison were then joined by Sir Guy Campbell (also a major in the British Army) to form the renowned Ferigna company (possibly Feringa? ... after the "morning glory" plant) that covered all aspects of golf courses, including design, construction, maintenance, equipment, turf dressing and seeding.
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