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ENHANCINGA CLASSIC

One of golf’s great holy trinities is the three Ws; West Hill, Woking and Worplesdon. These glorious, timeless Surrey courses are extremely close neighbours in an area that is richly adorned with top-quality golf. Their furthest extremities are less than two miles apart, but they are nonetheless quite different from one another. It is also a matter of endless debate as to which is the best, with plenty of golfers regularly changing their mind. For the record, positioned at 61, Worplesdon is the highest-ranked of the three in Golf Monthly’s UK & Ireland Top 100.

The course dates back to 1908 and was a collaboration between two great architects, one not so well known and the other a household name. The layout and routing is the work of JF Abercromby, and this was his first foray into

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