Old Nene

Ramsey sits deep in the Cambridgeshire Fens, a landscape so flat and wide-open that the sky dominates everything — a setting that strips golf back to its essentials. This is farming country, reclaimed from ancient wetlands over centuries, and the golf here reflects that honest, unhurried character. The town itself is a quiet market settlement, far from the resort circuits, and Old Nene is very much a course for the local game.

With a par of 67, Old Nene plays as a shorter, more compact layout — the kind of course that rewards accuracy and course management over power, and where local knowledge counts. That lower par typically means a generous helping of par 3s and short par 4s, making it an accessible track for a wide range of players while still offering enough variety to keep regulars engaged round after round.

The River Nene, which gives the course its name, winds through the Fens in this part of Cambridgeshire, and the surrounding landscape almost certainly brings a flat, open exposure to wind — a factor that can quietly turn a benign-looking card into something far more demanding.