{"id":225352,"date":"2018-05-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/the-highest-golf-courses-in-great-britain\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T10:48:15","slug":"the-highest-golf-courses-in-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/the-highest-golf-courses-in-great-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Highest Golf Courses in Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article\">\n<p><b>The Highest Golf Courses in Great Britain<\/b><\/p>\n<p>West Monmouthshire Golf Club, founded in 1906 and overlooking the Brecon Beacons in Gwent, is officially (ie according to the Guinness Book of Records) the highest in Britain, rising to 1518 feet above sea level on the 14th tee. <\/p>\n<p>Leadhills Golf Club in Lanarkshire is the highest in Scotland at 1500 feet above sea level, making it the second highest in Britain, a mere 18 feet lower than the record holder.<\/p>\n<p>Among full 18 hole courses, <a href=\"\/clubhouse\/coursedir\/herefordshire\/kington.html\" class=\"Normal_Link\">Kington Golf Club<\/a> in Herefordshire is the highest in England, rising to 1280 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n<p>Substantially higher,  but with only 10 holes at present, is <a href=\"\/clubhouse\/coursedir\/cumbria\/alstonmoor.html\" class=\"Normal_Link\">Alston Moor Golf Club<\/a> in Cumbria, which peaks at 1476 feet. Work is however in progress to complete a full 18 holes, and scheduled for completion in summer 2010.<\/p>\n<p>August 2010<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/thin_green_line.gif\" width=\"494\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Highest Golf Courses in Great Britain West Monmouthshire Golf Club, founded in 1906 and overlooking the Brecon Beacons in Gwent, is officially (ie according to the Guinness Book of Records) the highest in Britain, rising to 1518 feet above sea level on the 14th tee. Leadhills Golf Club in Lanarkshire is the highest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":136,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-225352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-hole","tag-january"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.8 (Yoast SEO v23.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Highest Golf Courses in Great Britain - Golf Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/the-highest-golf-courses-in-great-britain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Highest Golf Courses in Great Britain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Highest Golf Courses in Great Britain West Monmouthshire Golf Club, founded in 1906 and overlooking the Brecon Beacons in Gwent, is officially (ie according to the Guinness Book of Records) the highest in Britain, rising to 1518 feet above sea level on the 14th tee. 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