Verulam Artisans Golf Club

Verulam Artisans Golf Club plays over an 18-hole, par-72 course measuring 6,429 yards at St Albans in Hertfordshire, with roots going back to 1905. St Albans grew up around the Roman town of Verulamium, whose remains still lie in the park just below the medieval abbey that gives the modern cathedral city its skyline, and the surrounding countryside sits within the belt of chalk and clay hills that separates London's northern edge from the flatter Bedfordshire plain further north. The city has long combined this Roman and medieval history with a role as a commuter centre for London, reachable in under half an hour by rail, and its green belt setting has kept farmland and woodland close around the built-up centre despite that pressure. At 6,429 yards over par 72, the course represents a full-length test by the standards of clubs founded in the early twentieth century, from an era when St Albans was still a comparatively small cathedral city rather than the expanded commuter town it has since become.