
Seacroft Course
Seacroft Golf Club
About this course
Seacroft Golf Club sits on the Lincolnshire coast at Skegness, occupying linksland along the North Sea. Willie Fernie, a Scottish professional and course designer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, laid out the course. Fernie competed in The Open Championship and designed several courses across Britain during his career. The club was established in the early 1900s, making it one of the traditional seaside courses along England's eastern coastline. The course runs over classic linksland terrain characterized by sandy soil, natural undulations, and the wind patterns typical of coastal golf. The routing takes advantage of the property's relationship to the sea, with holes playing through dunes and along relatively flat stretches where the wind becomes the primary defense. The turf drains quickly and provides firm conditions that reward ground game and strategic positioning. Natural grasses and minimal tree cover maintain the open, windswept character common to British links courses. Seacroft serves as an accessible links option along the Lincolnshire coast, a region less traveled by international golfers than Scotland or northwest England but home to legitimate seaside golf. The course offers traditional links golf without the formality or expense of championship venues. Members and visitors encounter the fundamental challenges of coastal golf: reading wind, managing firm turf, and navigating natural hazards shaped by centuries of weather and tide.
Quick facts
- Location
- Skegness, Lincolnshire, England
- Access
- Public
- Year built
- 1895
- Designer
- Willie Fernie
- Holes
- 18
- Par
- 71
- Length
- 6,835 yards
- Difficulty
- 74.4/128
Getting there
The journey to Seacroft Golf Club begins most naturally through East Midlands Airport or Humberside Airport, each roughly ninety minutes by road from Skegness, though many visitors route through London and make the two-and-a-half-hour drive north into Lincolnshire's coastal flatlands. The approach traces the edge of The Wash before turning toward the North Sea, where the landscape opens into wide skies and salt-touched air. As the road enters Skegness, the Victorian seaside resort gives way to quieter dunes and marram grass, and soon the links of Seacroft reveal themselves along Gibraltar Point - a windswept, elemental arrival at one of England's most authentic and unspoiled stretches of golfing ground.

FAQ
Common questions about Seacroft
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Seacroft was designed by Willie Fernie.
Yes. Seacroft is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.
Par at Seacroft is 71.
Seacroft plays 6,835 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Seacroft is 128.
Seacroft is a 18-hole course.



