Three Locks Golf Club

Three Locks Golf Club was founded in 1992 and takes its name from its position alongside the Grand Union Canal, between Leighton Buzzard and Bletchley in Buckinghamshire. The eighteen-hole course runs through parkland shaped by the River Ouzel, which crosses the site and, together with the adjoining canal, brings water into play at multiple points around the layout. This stretch of the Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire border sits within the wider Milton Keynes area, a landscape reshaped since the 1960s and 70s by the new town's development but still threaded through by older waterways such as the canal and the Ouzel that predate it by more than a century. Bletchley, now part of Milton Keynes, and Leighton Buzzard just across the county line in Bedfordshire, give the club a location straddling two counties and two distinct town identities. As one of the newer clubs among this set, founded in the early 1990s rather than the Victorian or Edwardian era, Three Locks reflects the later twentieth-century expansion of golf provision around Milton Keynes as the new town's population grew.