It is my privilege on behalf of the English Golf Union (EGU) to welcome all Teams and Officials to Hillside Golf Club for the 2009 Home Internationals.
As a Lancastrian, it is particularly pleasing for me that the competition is being held on one of the finest courses in Lancashire. The Raymond Trophy was last competed for at Hillside in 1977 and I know we will be presented with a well prepared and challenging course for this year’s competition and our thanks are due to The More >
Hillside's links golf course is surely one of the best links courses never to have hosted The Open. Situated next door to Royal Birkdale ("a wild-looking links" according to Jack Nicklaus), it provides a peerless test of golf, which tests all the shots in a majestic More >