Silloth-on-Solway Golf Club

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A true hidden gem!
One of the R&A Regional Qualifying Courses for the Open Championship, Silloth-on-Solway is regularly ranked among Britain's very best golf courses, and deservedly so.
Situated on the north west coast of Cumbria, you can enjoy striking views of the Galloway Hills to the North, and south to the Lakeland fells and the distant Isle of Man.
It is perhaps best known as the course that produced one of Britain's finest ever female golfers, Cecilia "Cecil" Leitch, who dominated the women's game around the time of the First World War and changed the way women played the game. She is said to have developed a distinctive, more athletic swing in order to reach Silloth's "handkerchief-sized" greens from long and narrow fairways. It's no wonder then that the club has produced a stream of county champions.
The North British Railway Company founded Silloth-on-Solway Golf Club in 1892 and it hired Davy Grant to design the lay-out with subsequent revisions and improvements by Willie Park Jnr, Willy Fernie and the great Dr Mackenzie to achieve today's challenging holes. Vardon, Taylor and Braid, amongst others, played exhibition matches at Silloth which helped to publicise the course during the early 1900's.
It was laid out over the sand-hills west of town and features plenty of hazards such as heather, whin, deep pot bunkers and sandy wastes.
Keep on the fairways, however and you'll be rewarded. The springy Cumberland turf invites fairway woods and crisp iron approach shots. The greens are full of subtle borrows and as at all great links are usually firm.