Later addition -
Later edit - here are a GC-Atlas IMO piece about the old MacKenzie green and the history of the club and a condensed version of the story as published in GC-Architecure Magazine issue 59, Jan 2020 -
https://golfclubatlas.com/in-my-opinion/thomas-david-sphinx-in-your-back-garden/ and ...
http://digital.tudor-rose.co.uk/golf-course-architecture/issue59/46/Later edit - for a podcast discussion about the history of the club and its links with the likes of Sayers, Paxton, Rolland, Brown plus Colt, Mackenzie, the effect of WW2 etc see episode 203 of the CookieJar podcast -
https://cookiejargolf.com/203-course-diaries-worcestershire-golf-club/Sean's edited introduction does generally correspond more to how the course is viz-a-viz MacKenzie and Hawtree, although the current 6th green is MacKenzie (it was his original 1st green), the 11th hole is an all Hawtree hole and Harry Colt lived in Malvern as a young child rather than just visiting during prep school holidays.
As mentioned in the other thread, 1927 was when MacKenzie's 18-hole course opened and was played as he designed it until WWII when circumstances intervened and 9-holes only were then played until 1972.
As to the current 18-hole course, the conditioning of which is outstanding, there are indeed a lot of trees these days, but as we know, some folk like trees and some folk don't, which is important at a member owned private club such as WGC. Some trees have however, been given a decent trim recently (Sean's photos are pre-trim).
Here is a montage of photos of the original 1879-1927 course on Malvern Common, the course where Harry Colt learnt to play. The routing changed a few times - 9-holes initially below the railway lines, then 18-holes above/below and yes, over and between, the railway lines. There was also a 9-hole 'Ladies Course' plus a separate Ladies Clubhouse. Even after the Club formally moved to the new MacKenzie course golf continued to be played on the Common until circa WWII.

Here is MacKenzie's 1927 course routing, built from new on a farm a couple of miles away from the original course on the Common.

Below are montages of some of the MacKenzie holes that were in play from 1927 to WWII
First montage - 1st tee, 2nd green and 8th green

Sccond montage - 9th green, 10th green, 11th green in distance and 13th green

Third montage - 14th green, 16th green, 17th tee and 2x18th green

And this aerial photo shows why the course was cut back from 18-MacKenzie-holes to only 9-MacKenzie-holes from WWII until 1972 - the US 55th Army General Hospital camp, after WWII used for other military purposes.


This is the present 18-hole course - a combination of MacKenzie and Hawtree

For cross reference purposes, the other thread mentioned, about the lost/rediscovered unused for 78 yrs MacKenzie green is -
http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,64557.0.html - there is also a summary of the clubs eventful history here -
http://www.theworcestershiregolfclub.co.uk/page.aspx?pid=5606Edit - 2018 - Here are some recent photos of the course -
Below - a moody scene looking down on the course from the ridgeline of the adjacent Malvern Hills during the
exceptionally dry summer of 2018. Where once there was an open aspect course there are now mostly significantly tree lined holes.

Below - Two photos of the short par-4 1st hole after some rear tree clearance and bunkering upgrades


Below - the severely uphill par-4 2nd hole. The once central greenside bunker is now positioned to the left side

Below - par-5 4th hole. A ditch has recently been installed in front of the green to alleviate storm water runoff from the hills and to improve safety for the immediately adjacent public footpath. Also show in action (in this instance for photo purposes) is the recently installed new irrigation.

Below - the par-4 7th hole as seen from the fairway and the rear right side. This is a very severely sloped double-tier green.


Below - Three photos of the 8th hole. Firstly from the tee, then from the rear of the green and finally from the left side. Alister Mackenzie really did design some cracking par-3's



Below - the par-4 9th hole

Below - par-4 9th hole at left, par-4 10th hole at centre, rear of par-4 14th green in the foreground

Below - the par-4 9th hole at right, the par-4 10th hole at centre and the par-4 11th hole at left

Below - Three photos of the highly regarded par-4 14th hole



Below - the par-3 15th during the
exceptionally dry summer of 2018. The rear of the green has recently had a stream re-opened and some tree clearance undertaken. The flag in the second photos is actually on the 17th green.


Below - Two photos of the par-5 17th hole


Below - Three photos of the par-4 18th. Short on the card, uphill and narrow with an evil/wonderful green. A hole not to be taken for granted.



During a recent course visit a celebrated GCA poster described the courses conditioning as "outstanding". A comment much appreciated when relayed to the Course Manager, his staff and the main club committee.
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Later edit - a 1927 painting by Rowntree and a photo taken from the same location in 2018.

