Woburn Golf and Country Club
Woburn Golf Club is a golf club located at Little Brickhill, near Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England, about northwest of central London.
There are three courses at the property: the "Duke's Course", which opened in 1976; the "Duchess Course", both designed by Charles Lawrie, which followed in 1978; and the "Marquess Course", designed by Peter Alliss and Clive Clark, European Golf Design and Alex Hay, which dates from 2000. The courses are situated amid mature woodland on the Duke of Bedford's Woburn Abbey estate.
European Ryder Cup player and PGA Tour golfer Ian Poulter is the club's "touring professional".Tournaments
The European Tour's British Masters was played at Woburn many times between 1979 and 2002, initially over the Duke's Course, and later over the Marquess Course. Another European Tour event, The Heritage, was staged at Woburn in 2004.
Woburn has hosted the Women's British Open, one of the women's majors, ten times between 1984 and 2016, and will host it again in 2019. The first nine editions of the Women's British Open at Woburn were on the Duke's Course, whilst the 2016 edition was the first on the Marquess Course. The 2019 edition will also be on the Marquess Course. The club has hosted many other Ladies European Tour events. The Ford Ladies Classic was played on the Duke's Course from 1982 until 1985 when it moved to the Duchess Course with the final tournament, won by Catrin Nilsmark in 1994.
Woburn has also hosted the Travis Perkins Masters on the European Senior Tour since its foundation in 2001.
