2014 saw one of the most dramatic alterations to the Course in the history of the Club when Network Rail undertook a £ 1,000,000 project to construct a bridge over the Railway and close the unmanned crossing forever. (There had previously been a footbridge over the crossing but this was removed in the early 1960’s as it was deemed unsuitable and unsafe.)
The only site available for safe construction of a structure able to take vehicular access was further away from the original crossing and so it was necessay to alter the playing order of the holes to accomodate the new location. This necessitated a minor alteration to the course with the slight shortening of the 6th hole from the Gent’s tees, removing the previoulsy blind tee shot and allowing the opportunity of a “risk / reward” drivable par 4.
