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Golf Monthly
Golf Monthly
Sport
Jeremy Ellwood

INSANE: The british seaside town where traditional resort meets first class links golf | Rare Historical Photos

Looking down on the 16th green at Seacroft Golf Club.

Mention Skegness and you’ll always get some sort of reaction, whether a wry smile about this good old-fashioned British seaside resort, a mention of Butlin's or a reference to the famous early-20th-century ‘Skegness is so bracing’ GNR railway posters.

But for golfers, just a few miles south of town lies the top seaside offering in any 'best courses in Lincolnshire' ranking. Seacroft, a thoroughly deserving mainstay of our Next 100 courses list, plays over a sometimes slender links strip down to Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve, though the sea is rarely visible.

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