Hole 1
A difficult par 3 starts your round at Davyhulme. Playing from an elevated tee to an elevated green, normally with a right to left breeze, the 1st is a starting hole that whilst only 167 yards tests your ability and nerve.

Hole 2
The second is a straight forward par 5 and gives you a brief respite before playing stroke indexes 7, 3 and 1 holes in quick succession. There are fairway bunkers to catch the tee and second shots and a further two bunkers greenside guard a slightly raised but relatively flat green. (Check out the 3rd and 17th pin positions to your left as you approach the green!)

Hole 3
The third is a short but tricky par 4 around the only pond on the course. Putting your drive in the right position is essential if you are going to open up a relatively narrow green at its front and middle. The farther up the fairway you go, the easier the second shot. (Check out the pin placements on the 4th and 6th from the 3rd tee vantage point !)

Hole 4
The fourth is a long dogleg to the right. The hole is heavily bunkered on the corner of the dogleg and has thick rough if you drive too far to the right. The green is sloping from right to left and has two bunkers greenside. Check your flag on the 7th as you walk around the dogleg.

Hole 5
The fifth is stroke one, a long but straight par four invariably played into the wind. Left side of the fairway provides a better angle to a green guarded by two bunkers, one slightly short of the green and one greenside. Two good hits into the prevailing wind.

Hole 6
The sixth hole is the second par five on the front nine. The tee shot is played slightly uphill to a wide fairway. The hole narrows as you approach the green with fairway bunkers short and large bunkers surrounding a narrow entrance to the green.

Hole 7
The seventh is a short par 4, which at stroke 17, should not prove too difficult. The green is however heavily bunkered and there are dangers from thick rough and the course boundary if your tee shot is not accurate.

Hole 8
Golf course architects have described the eight as the best golfing hole on the course. With the boundary of the course again on your right you ideally need to fade the ball to a narrow fairway. Unless you’re in the right half of the fairway, you are then required to play a shot to the green over a large sycamore tree. The green is bunkered greenside and slopes away if you are too long.

Hole 9
You finish the front nine as you started, with a par 3. The ninth has often been described as the hardest hole on the course. You are required to play to a very narrow raised green with bunkers short, left and right. Miss the putting surface and you have very little green to play with.

Hole 10
The tenth at stroke two is a difficult start to the back nine. This is a long dogleg right par 4 with a thick wooded area to your right and small trees and bushes to the left. Once at the corner you are required to play to a green that is slightly raised so judging the correct pin position on this large green is important. The green is bunkered short left and right.

Hole 11
The eleventh is the first of two short but tricky par 4’s in succession. A well-placed long drive opens up a green that slopes from back to front. A short drive will require you to play over large trees, whilst a drive too long could put you in sand. (Check you pin for the 12th from this tee!)

Hole 12
The twelfth ideally requires a left to right tee shot to avoid high trees down the right hand side of the hole. You are then required to play over a bunker short of the green that obscures your view of the long Mackenzie green.

Hole 13
The thirteenth is the first par five on the back nine and has a sharp dogleg right. The right of the hole is tree lined and fairway bunkers guard the approach to a green that is also bunkered left and right. (Check your flag placement on 16th from this tee!)

Hole 14
The fourteenth is the first par 3 on the back nine. Normally played into the wind and into a corner of the course where its boundary is close to the back right of the green. A large relatively flat green will reward a good tee shot. Club up here, there’s little for being short.

Hole 15
The par 4 fifteenth brings you back towards the clubhouse. An accurate tee shot short at the right hand bunker will leave the best approach angle down to a long narrow green. Tee shots left will leave you having to play over large trees or blocked out completely and in deep rough. The farther you drive, the narrower the fairway. A genuine risk and reward hole. If you have a score going, club down off the tee to ensure you hit the widest part of the fairway.

Hole 16
The stroke four sixteenth is a tree lined par four at just over 400 yards. A good drive will leave a relatively straightforward shot to a green-bunkered short right and greenside on the left. If you miss the fairway on the left, the trees will normally prevent you finding the green.

Hole 17
The seventeenth is the final par three on the course and the second time you are required to play over the water. Whilst only 131 yards the green is well bunkered and the wind can frequently swirl and affect your tee shot. You are always glad to find the putting surface here.

Hole 18
The eighteenth is the final par five on the course. Played from an elevated tee to a slightly uphill fairway guarded by trees down both sides of the fairway, a bunker on the right and a series of grass bunkers right and left. Your second shot is played over an imposing sycamore tree in the middle of the fairway towards a very difficult green-bunkered left and right. The green has a ridge running down its length so finding the correct side of the green is imperative if you’re to avoid a costly 3 putt finish.