Hole by Hole Guide
On Par Ely
9 Hole Course
On Par has a short but cunningly designed nine hole golf course with a fiendishly challenging layout. Each hole is set inside sloping boundaries that make you feel that you could be playing by yourselves with no other golfers in sight.
Heron’s Haunt
Take on the ponds at your peril and beware of the out of bounds to the left bordering the driving range.
Kingfisher Corner
The next hole is a dogleg left unless you take the direct route over the poplar trees but be wary of the pond that eats into the left hand side just short of the green.
Magpies Hideaway
A slight dogleg left unless one is tempted to take the direct route over the rise.
Woodpecker’s Knock
The last and longest of the par four holes.
Blackcaps Song
A testing par three with a bunker guarding the approach to the green.
Buzzards Rise
One then climbs to the top of the bank to survey the superb panorama in front of Little Downham and the surrounding countryside.
Kestrel’s Hunt
From the back tree one can only see the left hand side bunker of the two that gate post the green.
Crow’s Nest
Another climb to the top of the bank will then reveal the ship of the fens, Ely Cathedral.
Blue Tit’s Hangout
The final hole can bring joy or despair, a pond waits to swallow any ball falling short of the green