Whitehaven Golf Course
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The views of the Lakeland fells are just part of the pleasure of playing a round of golf at Whitehaven's new golf course.
Set in sprawling 163-acre parkland above Whitehaven, the club has really taken off thanks to former Keswick pro Craig Hamilton.
After Copeland Council failed to exploit the golden opportunity they were handed by British Coal in a landscaped course, 32 year old Craig Hamilton (pictured left) has successfully taken the plunge by throwing in his comfortable life as professional at Keswick to take over a course no one wanted. He accepted the 125-year lease from Copeland Borough Council on the Harras Moor course. Hamilton predicts Whitehaven will eventually develop into one of Cumbria's best course. "In three years, it will be on a par with other courses in the county but in five years time it will be the best inland course in Cumbria," he said. "I think in the next couple of years it could host county events and progress from there into staging big professional tournaments." The course had been built in 1992 on an old open-cast site by the Coal Board, but as it had never been managed, it had turned into a wilderness of waist-high grass and weeds. In November 1998 Craig stood up at a public meeting in Whitehaven and told council leaders he wanted to take over the golf course.
Carlisle-born Hamilton had worked on the design of Dalston Golf Club and Silsden in
West Yorkshire, and has always been fascinated by course design and construction."The only way it would have back-fired would have been if people didn't join. We budgeted for 350 members in the first year but we have got nearly 600. We are the central course on the west coast, which is why we've had such a big response."