The Northumberland Golf Club — heathland golf inside a racecourse There is nowhere quite like it in English golf: The Northumberland Golf Club is laid out inside the loop of Newcastle Racecourse, its fairways crossing the running track and its holes framed by the old...
Royal Automobile Club Old Course — Fowler’s downland at Woodcote Park Hidden behind the gates of the Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Park estate, the Old Course is one of Surrey’s quiet treasures — a Herbert Fowler downland layout that sweeps through mature trees on...
King’s Lynn Golf Club — woodland golf in the Castle Rising woods Turn off the road at Castle Rising and King’s Lynn Golf Club unfolds through the trees, its fairways carved into rolling woodland where the corridors of oak, pine and silver birch make every drive feel...
Burhill Golf Club — Old Course parkland golf on the Guinness family estate Few Surrey courses can match the sense of arrival at Burhill Golf Club, where the drive sweeps up to a Grade II listed Georgian mansion built in 1726 on the ancestral estate of the Guinness...
Thorndon Park Golf Club — Harry Colt's parkland classic in an Essex deer park Stand on the first tee at Thorndon Park Golf Club and you are playing through five centuries of English landscape. Ancient oaks, some dating from the 1580s deer park, line fairways...
Essendon Country Club (Old Course) — classic Hawtree parkland in the Hertfordshire hills Stand on the second tee of the Old Course at Essendon Country Club and the round opens up beneath you: a long, downhill par three tumbling towards a two-tiered green, framed by...
Brampton Golf Club — James Braid's heathland jewel in Cumbria Stand on the first tee at Brampton and the Pennine fells roll away to the horizon, with the Lake District peaks and even Scotland visible on a clear day. Brampton Golf Club, on Tarn Road just outside the...
Beaconsfield Golf Club — Harry Colt’s Chiltern parkland classic Step off the train at Seer Green & Jordans and you are, quite literally, in the golf club’s car park — a quirk of history that tells you everything about the ambition behind...
Coxmoor Golf Club — championship heathland golf above Sutton-in-Ashfield Stand on the high ground at Coxmoor and Nottinghamshire rolls away beneath you, the fairways threading through heather and gorse on a sandy plateau that has hosted golf for more than a century....