Belvoir Park Golf Course
Newtownbreda, County Antrim
Belvoir Park is a Harry Colt classic located just outside Belfast, a city blessed with four highly rated parkland courses. Largely unaltered since its opening in 1927, Belvoir Park is characterised by rich green fairways forming avenues through magnificent trees, wonderful bunkering and some of the best putting surfaces to be found anywhere in Ireland. Harry Bradshaw (Portmarnock) won the Irish open here in 1949 and considered it the best inland course he had ever played. Belvoir Park is particularly noted for its fine collection of short holes.
Belvoir Park Course Description
The first two holes are relatively straightforward and flat before arriving at the first gem - the long par-4 third hole. The first of the fine collection of par-3s follows, a 184 yard
As tough a finish as anywhere follows. The feature hole is the 439 yard seventeenth, a real two-shot challenge. It is what is known as a delayed dogleg, with the forest along the left-hand side and the second is then a full carry over water to a raised green. This hole sandwiches the 204 yard par-3 sixteenth and the shorting but difficult eighteenth that climbs up to the clubhouse.
