The best golf clubs near Surrey
Surrey, SW London and Berkshire contain an embarrassment of riches regarding incredible golf courses. William Gadsby Peet looks at the best in the business for yelling fore!
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Chiddingfold Golf Club
With panoramic views across the Surrey Downs, Chiddingfold's pretty course provides a challenging game of golf in a relaxed and friendly environment. Shorter than some in the area, the course is ideal for those wanting to get a quick round in before enjoying a bacon roll or cheese ploughmans in the clubhouse. Chiddingfold offers great value for money for those looking to pay to play over 18 holes, as well as a number of membership deals catering a variety of ages and backgrounds.
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Royal Ascot Golf Course
Situated on Ascot Farm in the south-west corner of Windsor Great Park, Royal Ascot is a challenging course set in a unique area of outstanding natural beauty. With four different tee positions and some excellent feature holes, golfers of all standards can look forward to a great round of golf on a modern par-70 course.
Having moved from the heath in the centre of Ascot racecourse back in 2004, the new course is maturing rapidly in an area populated by local wildlife, established oak, birch, beech and pine trees, and newly maturing saplings lining the fairways. The USGA-standard greens are in exceptional condition and with great draining, RAGC boasts all-year-golf for members and guests.
Currently, new members receive one lesson with the course pro, James Crawford, and three complimentary green fee vouchers for guests.
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Clandon Regis Golf Club
Set in 170 acres of gorgeous Surrey parkland, Clandon Regis Golf Club offers a challenging par 72 course that traverses a number of natural and man-made lakes and, with no temporary tees or greens, is playable in all but the most extreme weather conditions. Attracted by Clandon's drive to live up to the moniker of ’Surrey’s friendliest golf club’ its membership has swelled in recent years and it now boasts one of the largest ladies’ sections in Surrey. Combined with an active calendar of tournaments and social events, an excellent academy run by a slick team of professionals and a thriving junior section, the club provides a golfing haven for all ages, abilities and genders.
Clandon Regis Golf Club has a special membership price category for those under the age of 40 and also offers a six-month taster membership for only £500.
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Hoebridge Golf Centre
Excellent for beginners, Hoebridge offers three separate courses in varying length on which to hone your technique. The centre also provides a driving range, a brilliantly named crazy golf circuit (Mr Mulligan's Pirate Golf), and the chance to play the new football/golf hybrid game – FootGolf. Catering for all, this exclusively pay to play venue is the perfect place to take the whole family for a fun golf experience.
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Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club
Royal Mid-Surrey Golf Club lies within a bend of the river Thames in south-west London next to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. Golf has been played on this stretch of royal parkland since 1892, but the club’s great professional, JH Taylor, five times Open Champion, set about transforming the landscape into one of the finest golf courses in Surrey.
Royal Mid-Surrey is a members’ club, but visitors can play on both the JH Taylor Course and Pam Barton Course, availability permitting. Guests of members and golfing societies (with a minimum of eight players) are welcome, and the club is happy to organise company golf days, except at weekends. Visitors without an introduction from a club member can play from Monday to Thursday after 10:00 a.m. Handicap certificates are preferred, whilst golf competency is a must. Men should be able to play to a handicap of 24 and women to 32.
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Hurtmore Golf Club
If it's a fun, fast paced round of golf you're after, then Hurtmore is for you. The challenging and interesting 18-hole course is perfect for the higher handicappers wishing to enjoy a short course. The green covers 5,530yards and features an undulating landscape with several beautiful lakes. With a number of excellent offers available, golf at Hurtmore is accessible to everyone.
Hurtmore offer a number of different memberships – from flexi packages for those who can't commit to a full membership and don't mind paying green fees, to extensive year-long memberships that eliminate green fees and offer discounts on food and drink. There's also a fab golfing simulator onsite that can help you work on your swing come rain or shine.
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Brush and Bubbles
With an abundance of water hazards, be sure to keep it straight at Milford on a challenging and enjoyable course. The superb drainage provides virtually all-year round golf for those who just can't get enough. Some excellent offers are available and cater for all the family.
Membership includes discounted access to 32 other Crown Golf courses in the country and a 50% discount on green fees at 40 courses in France and Spain.
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Pine Ridge Golf Club
Pine Ridge is a very popular 18-hole course that offers challenges for all ability levels. The course ranks among the best pay to plays in the country with a fairway that undulates through a majestic mature pine forest, so why not treat yourself to a round in a picturesque setting? An all-weather driving range with automated PowerTees also make Pine Ridge the perfect place to improve that rusty swing whatever the weather.
Green fee rates are £29 Monday-Friday and £38 for weekends and bank holidays. Primarily a pay to play, memberships are limited to five days (Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays) for adults and seven days for juniors during term time.
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Silvermere Golf and Leisure
Set against lake Silvermere, some fantastic views can be enjoyed on a testing par-71 course that is seen as one of the best in the area. Suited more to the moderate to experienced golfer, playing to your handicap is a real achievement at Silvermere. Barnes Wallis tested his Dambuster bouncing bomb on the lake so your ball will find good company at the bottom if you fail to beat the water hazard!
Facilities include a 52 bay driving range and the respected Robert Rock golf academy, suitable for complete beginners looking to learn the sport for the first time and seasoned golfers who want to take their game to the next level. The club's wonderful Inn On The Lake overlooks Silvermere Lake (clue is in the name) and is a great spot to watch the sunset, glass of vino in hand, after a hard day's work.
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Hampton Court Palace
With the enviable accolade of being the only golf course in the country set within the grounds of a Royal Park, the Hampton Court Golf Course does not disappoint. There are no water hazards, but the course's 70 bunkers force players to engage in a strategic round of golf. Free roaming deer provide the backdrop for a peaceful and interesting game in a unique setting. A must play – just to say you have!
Another Crown Golf club, membership includes access and discounts to a number of other domestic and international golf courses.
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Foxhills Club and Resort
Foxhills Stonehill Road, Ottershaw, KT16 0ELFoxhills has three great courses to choose from suitable for golfers of every level and is home to one of the country’s first par-three nine hole courses, The Manor. Pay to play on both the Longcross and Bernard Hunt courses is also available and open to visitors seven days a week. The gorgeous tree-lined, Longcross was ranked one of the top 100 golf courses in England for 2015/2016 and hole 14 of the Bernard Hunt course was named one of the greatest holes ever played by BBC Radio 5 listeners.
The green fees for adults visitors Monday-Thursday are £90 and Friday to Sunday £100. Membership can be customised to include access to some of the other facilities at the Foxhills complex like tennis, squash and a cutting edge health spa.
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Sutton Green Golf Club
Located between Guildford and Woking and established in 1994, this 6,480 yard course was co-designed by former Women’s world number one Dame Laura Davies and David Walker. The par 71, 18 hole course gives golfers an opportunity to enjoy manicured fairways, greens tees and complete fairway irrigation with some beautiful lakes on the course added to provide a further challenge on eight of the holes.
Green fees start from £17.25. Visitors can book online 10 days in advance using the online booking facility which allows you to reserve tee times. The best rates available are online. Members can book their tee time 30 days in advance and there's a variety of different memberships available including traditional 5 and 7 day, junior, intermediate and black card.
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West Surrey Golf Course
Designed in 1910 and upgraded in 2002, the West Surrey Golf Club is set in a beautiful location reaching a high point of 440 feet above sea level, with stunning views down to the clubhouse and of the Hogs back from the 18th tee. Whilst visitors are welcome, please note that WSGF visitors will need to provide a handicap certificate. Green fees for weekdays are £60 and weekends £75. There are a limited number of tee times which can be booked online, to play outside of these times call the office for availability.
Membership costs vary with significant discounts for those under the age of 30. Full members are required to purchase 200 West Surrey GC Ltd Ordinary £1 shares.
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Comment FeedMissed a great course in the heart of Surrey!
Simon more than 9 years ago