Cavendish Golf Club

Dr Alister MacKenzie, the celebrated course designer, was commissioned by the Duke of Devonshire in 1923 to lay out a new 18-hole course, replacing a 9-hole course in nearby Buxton. The course at Cavendish Golf Club was ready for play two years later and it has remained virtually unchanged in character for more than three quarters of a century. With an overall length a modest 5,721 yards and a par of 68, Cavendish holds true to a couple of MacKenzie’s…