Great Yarmouth & Caister Golf Club

Great Yarmouth & Caister Golf Club: here at the "Home of Bogey Golf" you'll find a pure links golf course. Perhaps not the best known of England's seaside links courses, but one that has all the ingredients to fully test your game in an eclectic seaside setting. Linking Gt Yarmouth at the course's southern end, with Caister-on-Sea at the top end, for most of your front-nine you'll be playing inside the boundary rails of the Great Yarmouth horse-racing track.

Set back from the sea, the course fans out from the clubhouse in three loops, from 1 thru' 10, 11 thru' 13, and 14 thru' 18. At times the race track hugs the course, at others you simply won't know its there. On two occasions (at 2 and 3, and 17 and 18), the rolling layout darts inland, only to return to the racetrack just as quickly on the returning hole. The only glimpse of the sea you'll get during the round is from the tee of the par-3 12th hole.

You may find the course a tad confusing at first, but you'll surely warm to it as you get further into your round. The opening short-4 will certainly get your attention, with two carries over the race track en route to the small circular green. Also eye-catching, are the many railway-sleepered bunkers that defend the generally small greens.

During dry periods and hot summers the course, like many links layouts, is prone to become dry and firm. In May the generous scattering of fairway lining gorse bushes glow with their bright yellow flowers ... easy to see but not always easy to avoid. One or two blind tee and approach shots are in the mix, together with good-width fairways, some rolling, others flatter.

Pick of the holes: the par-3 14th plays to a blind green, once you've carried a large railway-sleeperd bunker that looms large in front of the green.