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But fewer will have heard of another heathland ‘W’ just five miles away that’s also worthy of your attention and which celebrated a centenary of sorts in 2022, 100 years after perhaps wisely changing its name from Bleakdown to West Byfleet.
The course’s connection with the Three Ws runs a little deeper too. Cuthbert Butchart, who designed it back in 1906, also laid out West Hill, where he was the first professional. The layout, with its often tree-lined and occasionally narrow fairways, is largely still true to Butchart’s design, although the improvements over recent winters overseen by Mackenzie and Ebert have sought to take it to a new level.
This story is from the June 2023 edition of Golf Monthly.
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