North Hants Golf Club has received solid reviews in all established rankings in England’s top 100 courses, but has completed a £1.5m refurbishment of the championship layout.
The 120-year-old club, which hosts the Hampshire Pigs, Hampshire Rose and Open Championship Qualifying Tournament, appears to further enhance its position among England's top clubs.
The most notable change is the bunker, which is now upgraded in every danger in the 18-hole wasteland course after the master plan drawn by international golf course architect Mackenzie & Ebert.
The strategic challenge of the layout has improved some new bunkers, while others have been repositioned or removed throughout the course, and on the 10th, the grand new feature bunker will be created, which will make it one of the most watched golf holes in Hampshire.
Several green space bunkers have been converted into grass runoff areas with the goal of providing golfers with one of England’s best quality short-season challenges.
In total, the course now has 55 bunkers, 21 fewer than the previous layout. Rob Climas, general manager of the club, said: “We reduced the total sand area by 18%, but there are seven brand new bunkers there, which will improve the strategic challenges. Using the latest construction process, high quality and consistency of all bunkers are now guaranteed to be presented with our traditional Heathland Golf Fold Course.”
In addition to Blunkering, a comprehensive computer-controlled irrigation system now monitors moisture levels across the entire 18 holes, allowing the club to deploy water accurately when needed. With the fit with golf clubs that have won multiple sustainability awards, the new irrigation system is more efficient and can significantly minimize water waste while improving the competition surface, including the new runoff area.
To make the final step in upgrading the course, the club will install brand new course signage including newly designed tee markers throughout the property.
Overseeing the course is course manager Sam Evans, one of the 15 green guardians of golf in Britain today and only 90 in the world.
“I'm excited that we can now take the golf course to a higher level,” said Evans, 36. “With our old bunker, we lose 40 hours every time it rains 5-10mm, so our bunker can play again. That was 40 hours, which was 40 hours, without rolling vegetables, cutting courses, approaches and tee and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and tees and
He added: “The new rubber crumb base we have now in all bunkers will be a complete game-changer who can free up time to complete other tasks. The green will be better presumptive, and all the play surfaces around the green will be greatly improved.”
Course architect Tom Mackenzie said: “In re-bunkering North Hants we sought to stiffen the challenge for elite players: it is now a far better tournament course than before. At the same time we have given the club's members and visiting golfers who don't hit it as far as the pros a fairer crack of the whip. By converting some greenside bunkers into grass run-off areas, we have added some doubt to the minds of the better golfers, Whereas premium videos will be glad they didn't end up falling on the beach.”
“North Hans is now hitting a lot bigger than its length suggests.” “The golf club has done some extraordinary work to restore the golf course to its place and can now be regarded as a great wasteland race in southern England.”
Jeff Wollen, captain of North Hants club, said when the renovation plan began in 2024: “Our 580 members can’t wait to experience the rejuvenating golf courses that Sam and the team are so skillfully managed. The end of the course. The end of the course also means we can now have five modern clubs, and we’ve gotten away from five phenomena, but five modern phenomena. TEE now has the option of playing North Hans in a variety of yards (from suitable for the National Championship) to our shortest 5,000 yards in order to play North Hans in a variety of yards.
“Our members play an important role in the program; not only by providing funding, but also by demonstrating our patience to implement course engineering within six months of the winter. Their rewards will be a highly respected competition experience.”
Krass concluded: “This massive investment will help North Hans achieve its true status among the top 100 golf courses in England. The combination of new irrigation systems and upgraded bunkers has taken the English classic golf course to the next level. Our improved surface surface and revised challenges will inspire our strategic challenges, and we will compete in the future and re-competition in the North, perhaps North, and push the North to the North and push the North to the North and the North partners;
