This is our review of our Annual Charity Golf Day - the NISH Invitational, where this year we raised nearly £800 for the British Liver Trust

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WeI've never dedicated a whole episode to a clubhouse before. Walton Heath Golf Club changed that.

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We played this Surrey Heathland course in a back-to-back pairs event — old course one day, new course the next — but by the time I'd walked its corridors, I knew the clubhouse itself needed its own feature. This episode isn't about the golf (that's part two). It's about everything that happens before you even put a tee in the ground: a king who served as club captain, four former Prime Ministers on the wall, a hidden museum dedicated to James Braid tucked behind the pro shop, and a hospitality standard — the "Walton Way" — that actually lives up to the name.

Inside this episode:

• Why Walton Heath's reputation is more intimidating than the reality
• James Braid: five Open wins, 46 years as the club's professional, and why he refused to change a single thing about the course design
• The museum most visitors walk straight past
• Prince Edward, four Prime Ministers, and the 1981 Ryder Cup
• The terrace, the giant putting green, and one genuinely odd walk to the driving range

Part two — the actual golf — is coming in a couple of weeks.

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We didn't expect Formby Golf Club to feel like this. After playing our way through England's Golf Coast, we assumed we knew what to expect — heather, gorse, that classic Southport links look. Formby threw that out the window.

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In this episode we review Formby Golf Club, ranked among the Top 100 Golf Courses in the UK and Ireland, and now sitting at 39 in our list (up from 52). We talk through the tree-lined, almost heathland-meets-links character that makes it stand apart from its Golf Coast neighbours, the story behind the club's famous hippo head trophy (stolen luck, a warship, and a letter to the Admiralty), our Signature Hole Challenge on the par-five 8th, and why a £320 green fee might just be worth it.

We also cover:

• The Donald Steel-redesigned 7th and why it's one of the best strategic holes on the course
• Hole 3's reputation as one of the best tee shots in the Northwest of England
• The stretch from 12 to 14, including why you should always play 14 from the championship tees
• Our verdict on whether Formby cracks the top five golf courses we've played so far

Formby Golf Club joins our ongoing challenge to play every course in the Top 100 Golf Courses UK and Ireland ranking in 10 years, alongside nearby links and heathland courses like Hillside, Wallasey, and Royal Birkdale.

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