Story of a Golf Club - Alwoodley

This is the OG MacKenzie course, a club founded by a number of members from nearby Leeds, one of which was an ambitious Dr who would later go on to design Cypress Point, Royal Melbourne and of course Augusta National. This was the firts course he ever worked on, and his nervous co-members were keen to get the only real household name in the design of golf courses up from London to inspect his work and provide his seal of approval. HS Colt would do just that, and it started a long period where the two worked on courses either collaboratively or at times in competition with one another. For more on the work of Alister Mackenzie we highly recommend looking at the MacKenzie society website, and tkaing some time to visit one of his designs, perhaps his first... Alwoodley.