Water hazards are a particular feature of the splendid course at Hazel Grove golf club, so players in the same mould as Jean van de Velde beware! The obstacles are dotted all around the course and so it is certainly recommended you pack a few extra balls in your bag before you tee off just in case.

It is a truly challenging parkland course with undulating greens that will trouble even the steadiest of short games. It is not a long course in comparison to others in the region - measuring only 6310 yards from the tee on the first to the pin on the eighteen - but it is still a fine test of ability, as the par of 71 would certainly suggest.