Below you will find our golf course reviews from venues in the South East of England including London, Surrey, Sussex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Hampshire and Kent.
In my mind Royal St. George’s at Sandwich is a championship links golf course with few, if any, superiors.
I always enjoy my visits to play Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club at Deal, the Kentish town that the course is often referred to by name.
Sunningdale is a great golf club with two fantastic heathland golf courses.
Prince's is a truly superb 27-hole links complex that makes for a great play & stay venue but the emphasis is certainly more on the play side of things, it's all about the golf here.
As long as golf is played the debate about which is the best Surrey heathland course will rage.
Walton Heath, a club with a rich history and distinguished membership, is an oasis of pure heathland golf situated a mere 20 miles outside the city of London.
Before I even begin to tell you how good this golf course is I want to let you know just how perfect the entire set-up at West Sussex is.
It’s safe to say there’s a lot more to Rye Golf Club than the actual golf course.
Hankley Common is a heathland paradise played over a sprawling tract of land on the North Surrey Downs where the texture of the property is utterly divine. Pastel colours, sprinkled with tints of purple, give the course a wonderful character which perpetually changes on a seasonal basis.
Swinley Forest is a delectably English golf club set in the heart of the Berkshire sand-belt on a secluded parcel of land boasting beautiful heather, gorse and pines.
A full day of golf (and lunch) at The Berkshire is one of life’s little luxuries and definitely worth saving up for.
In the summer of 2019 I returned to Woking after a 20 year absence. Much has changed over the last two decades but the atmosphere of the club and the strategy of the course have not budged an inch.
I played Blackmoor on a beautiful summer evening, paid just £35 for a twilight green-fee and had virtually the entire property all to myself.
Hayling is an extremely fast running golf course played over pure linksland.
I love pretty much everything about the intriguing and challenging links at Littlestone. There is a rustic charm to this most appealing of layouts where you enjoy all the best traits of seaside golf.
New Zealand Golf Club is one of the least heralded golf courses on the Surrey sandbelt yet it is one of the most fascinating and maximises its relatively flat terrain to great effect.
I recently took the opportunity to play Royal Wimbledon Golf Club in their 36-hole scratch open competition, The Royal Wimbledon Trophy.
Stoneham’s biggest asset is undoubtedly its superb routing over adventurous terrain which ultimately lends itself to some unique and brilliant golf holes.
In an area drenched with a bountiful number of the country’s elite courses West Hill stands proud as one of Surrey's oldest and most respected.
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Ashridge is a well-established golf course played through beautifully coloured woodland and rolling terrain.
Camberley Heath is a golf course that I think you will be hearing a lot more about over the coming years.
Coombe Hill is a thrilling JF Abercromby design that compares well with many, if not most, of the famed nearby Surrey and Berkshire courses that occupy the various top 100 golf course lists. In fact to the untrained eye you would be forgiven for thinking you are playing one of the great heathlands at this flamboyant woodland venue.
Stumbling across Knole Park on a balmy May afternoon was like finding a little golfing treasure trove. There’s lots of golfing goodness to be found at this most English of golf courses.
There’s no denying that Liphook is a very fine golf course, 18 holes played over beautiful undulating heathland with fairways that wander through mature woodland.
North Hants, home of the elite amateur Hampshire Hog golf tournament, is one of the several ‘second tier’ courses situated on the notorious sandbelt to the South-West of London.
Royal Ashdown Forest is home to two fine golf courses; the Old and the West.
I recently tagged Tandridge onto a visit of some of the very top heathland golf courses in Surrey.
The Addington is a golf course that divides opinion. Some say it is one of England's finest courses. Others regard it amongst the World's best!
At the time of writing The Grove is one of the best modern inland golf courses I have had the pleasure to play.
The London Golf Club can boast two courses that have both hosted European Tour events.
The Wisley is a very exclusive private member golf club located in Surrey and is played solely by the 700 shareholders (and their invited guests) who have purchased a stake in The Club which opened for play in the early 1990’s.
Wentworth is an exclusive private club in the heart of the Surrey heathbelt where a members invitation is required to play any of the 54 holes comprising the East, West and Edinburgh courses.
Woburn can boast no less than three golf courses that all regularly feature in the various top 100 rankings.
There's a wonderful sense of scale and grandeur to the 18 holes at North Foreland Golf Club that adorn the clifftops at Kingsgate in the North-East corner of Kent.
Bearwood Lakes is an excellent parkland course that belies its age.
On a recent visit the golf course at The Centurion Club was every inch playable, and indeed highly enjoyable, although there is still very much a work in progress feel to the entire experience. This will clearly change over the coming months as the project approaches its conclusion and there is no doubt that the finished article will be hugely impressive.
Chart Hills is a flamboyant Sir Nick Faldo designed layout located in tranquil Kent countryside that contains some excellent holes amongst its bold and lavish bunkering.
Crowborough Beacon Golf Club was founded in 1895 and boasts far-reaching views which are just as mesmerising as the golf course itself.
The inclusion of Effingham in Golf World Magazine’s recent “Top 100 golf courses of England” peaked my interest in this Surrey downland course located just outside the London Orbital.
Goodwood is a spectacular Estate in the heart of West Sussex and is home to the world famous Festival of Speed, Goodwood Revival and the annual ‘Glorious Goodwood’ horseracing meeting.
Moor Park in Rickmansworth has two golf courses attached to its classy country club style estate.
Piltdown, founded in 1904, is a quaint heathland golf course tucked away in a sleepy corner of leafy Sussex.
East Sussex National is a big hotel, spa and golf complex near Uckfield in, er... well as you might be able to guess.... East Sussex.
Beaconsfield is an enamouring wooded, parkland course situated in Buckinghamshire with a largely intact Harry Colt routing from 1913.
Located just outside leafy Ottershaw in Surrey the Foxhills resort is a high class venue with three golf courses. The Club has staged a number of prestigious tournaments since it opened in 1975, including the European Tour’s Tournament Players Championship and the Qualifying School.
The humps, bumps, swales and hollows of Berkhamsted add a real charm and help create an atmosphere for enjoyable golf on fast-running, heathy-style terrain. Couple this with the lovely contouring of the putting surfaces and it elevates this course to one that is well above the norm.
A recent trip to compete in the annual Gold Medal, a 36 hole open competition, at Frilford Heath Golf Club consisted the playing of their Green and Red courses.
No other county in England can boast such an impressive portfolio of high quality parkland golf courses than Hertfordshire.
After playing 36 holes in an open competition at Frilford Heath I decided to quickly dash across the Oxfordshire countryside to Huntercombe for an evening round rather than sit in what mostly likely would have been rush hour traffic on the M40.
Designed by an experienced Harry Colt the Old Course at Leckford opened for play in 1929 and the layout has largely been preserved since then. This is a good thing, for the nine-holes at this under-the-radar venue deliver a beguiling round of golf.
In a County that is noted for its many fine parkland golf courses Old Fold Manor is certainly up there as one of the best and undoubtedly one of the most interesting.
They say that nice things come in small packages and that is exactly what Reigate Heath is and does.
I wasn’t supposed to like The Oxfordshire. But I did.
Essex is a county with many golf courses but it is not really renowned for having any venues near the top of the pyramid when it comes to discussing the best of golf in Great Britain.
Wildernesse is a real Kentish treat located just outside the M25 near Sevenoaks.
Planning a round of golf in late October can be a dicey affair, especially in my home county of Yorkshire where the vast majority of courses are built on heavy soil or clay, so it was very refreshing to discover when venturing down south how well East Berkshire played at this time of year.
Brocket Hall boasts two fine golf courses.
Denham is a traditional private members golf club tucked away in Buckinghamshire countryside where you will find a lovely parkland layout.
Oxford Golf Club, formerly called Southfield and designed by Harry Colt in 1922, is an interesting parkland course situated close to the historic City Centre.
Sandy Lodge is a course with tight, firm fairways and lots of interest throughout its 18 holes.
The adjacent Jubilee course at Rye was also a real surprise, not only in terms of the quality but also the unusual configuration.
The JH Taylor golf course at Royal Mid Surrey makes the best use of its pancake flat property and with 18 new USGA specification green complexes now in play there is plenty of interest at this thriving venue located just 20 minutes from Central London.
Located high on the Sussex Downs above the seaside town of the same name Seaford is a fine downland golf course with superb views.
Situated a short drive from the town of Banbury this delightful fast running course was a joy to play in mid-May when the plentiful gorse was in full canary-yellow bloom.
The Blue is a mix of American-style design and traditional English parkland. It's an unusual combination which makes the most of the terrain available. It was designed by Simon Gidman and opened in 1994.
Littlehampton has one of the best starts to any links course I have played. The opening two holes really are of the highest order.
London Scottish Golf Club plays over the fast-running, gravel-based course on the busy Wimbledon Common where a blend of heath and woodland converge to provide a delightful and natural golfing experience.
The most striking point from a golfing perspective at Temple is the number of holes that sit close to the edge of par.
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