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Portal Golf and Spa Resort
Golf Monthly
|August 2025
Jeremy Ellwood takes in 27 of the 45 holes at this lovely Macdonald Hotels property set in the Cheshire countryside just half an hour from Chester
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The golf
Premier: par 71, 6,517 yards
Arderne: par 31, 1,916 yards
I had played the Championship course here 11 years ago so this time tackled the short Arderne nine-holer as a warm-up, then the Premier course a short drive up the road early next morning. The Arderne is compact and pretty with mostly tiny greens that are handsomely protected by testing slopes.
This story is from the August 2025 edition of Golf Monthly.
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