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Tucked into the Eden Valley on Brackenber Moor, Appleby Golf Club is the kind of place that makes you question why you ever bother with expensive, over-hyped venues. This is golf the way it was meant to be — wild, windswept, utterly honest, and completely unforgettable. The welcome committee at Appleby — electric fence or not, they'll find a way to be in your shot. I've played over 60 courses since taking up golf seriously in June 2024. Links, parkland, heathland — I've cover

Bites, stings, ticks and horseflies — the rough has more residents than you think. A first-hand account and a practical guide to staying safe on the course. On one of those unexpectedly warm mid-March days that makes you feel like the season has finally arrived, I played the Valley Course at Greetham Valley — the shorter par-68 layout, with six par 3s that kept me honest with my irons and, as it turned out, well acquainted with the rough. What I didn’t expect was to come home