The Course
Tom Williamson, 1923, on parkland.
Par 71 over 6,430 yards. Rolling Nottinghamshire parkland with a century of mature trees, slick greens, and a closing stretch worth keeping a card on.
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Beeston Fields is one of Tom Williamson’s better-preserved layouts. Williamson was professional at Notts Golf Club for almost six decades and laid out clubs across the Midlands during the boom of inter-war club construction; his Beeston Fields routing has been refined but not rewritten.
The numbers
Par 71 from the white tees at 6,430 yards. The yellow tees play to 6,055 yards; the red tees to 5,564 yards. Course rating from the white tees is conventional for a Midlands parkland.
The character
The first six holes climb gently away from the clubhouse; the middle stretch winds through the most mature parkland and demands strategic golf rather than length; the closing three return uphill to the clubhouse over ground that has finished more rounds than the membership cares to remember. The greens are not large, are properly bunkered, and run quickly.
The bones
Williamson’s era believed in fair, strategic golf rather than punishing it. The dog-legs are real but reachable for the longer hitter. The trees have grown up around his original lines and now define rather than narrow the play. The course is honest: play your shots and you will score; spray the ball and the trees will find it.