Prudhoe Golf Club

Prudhoe stands on the south bank of the Tyne in Northumberland, a town above the river valley west of Newcastle, known for the Norman castle that held out during the twelfth-century sieges. The course puts a premium on placement early: the second runs under 300 yards with out of bounds all along the right, while the fifth offers 260 yards of risk against reward. Mature trees crowd both sides of the sixth, where the fairway falls from right to left. First of the short holes is the seventh at 175 yards, played blind from the tee. The ninth changes shape depending on the markers, a 405-yard par four from the whites becoming a 495-yard par five off the yellows, doglegging either way. Downhill ground carries the tenth over 460 yards. A ditch crosses the eleventh around the 200-yard mark ahead of a small raised green among trees, and the thirteenth is played from a tee hemmed in on all sides. Blind again at the fourteenth, a long par five drops away downhill. The club also runs the Tyne Valley Golf Lounge, an indoor facility.