https://www.halphillips.net/fowlers-beau-desert-a-typically-hidden-heathland-gem?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fowlers-beau-desert-a-typically-hidden-heathland-gem Small-Batch Journalism & Comment Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:34:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.halphillips.net/fowlers-beau-desert-a-typically-hidden-heathland-gem#comment-332 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:02:16 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1276#comment-332 A fine article, rightly singing the praises of a splendid course and a visionary architect. Fowler’s naturalistic approach seems now to garnering suitable recognition and courses are now promoting his involvement in their layout far more tahn in the past. I might also draw your attention to Delamere Forest Golf Club in Cheshire. In spite of its name(which describes its location but not its style) this is a sandy heathland course whose layout and style is pure Fowler. I believe he designed the course in 1912 and also redesigned the course 10 years later. It has hardly been altered since and recent work by McKenzie and Ebert has been specifically designed to remain faithful to Fowler’s style.
In fact Delamere and Beau Desert are two of the best British courses of which most golfers have never heard.

]]> https://www.halphillips.net/fowlers-beau-desert-a-typically-hidden-heathland-gem#comment-331 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:00:03 +0000 http://halphillips.net/?p=1276#comment-331 Well said Hal. It’s inconceivable that Fowler isn’t named in the same sentence as the greats you mentioned. Even if he’d designed Walton Heath alone, he should have been accorded the same status as Fownes, Crump, Neville and Grant, but his list of courses, new and redesigned, stretches far beyond WH.

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