Addington Palace Golf Club is one of London’s finest hidden gems — Abercromby’s 1931 woodland heathland layout within the Greater London boundary, as characterful and atmospheric as any course in the capital.
Author: Global Golfer
Hanbury Manor combines a Jack Nicklaus II championship parkland with a Jacobean manor house hotel and spa in Hertfordshire — one of the most reliably excellent Stay · Play · Recover golf resorts near London.
The Grove Golf Course is a Kyle Phillips masterpiece within a five-star country house hotel and spa, 30 minutes from London — the most complete Stay · Play · Recover destination in the Home Counties.
Royal Blackheath is the oldest golf club in England — founded in 1608, housed in a Grade I listed manor and carrying four centuries of golf history in its remarkable clubhouse collection.
The London Golf Club delivers two championship courses in the Kent countryside — the Heritage Course a Nicklaus design of real distinction, both accessible from central London in under an hour.
Saunton Golf Club offers 36 holes of dune links on the Braunton Burrows — the East Course is the finest links in the South West and one of England’s most underrated championship venues.
Perranporth Golf Club is Cornwall’s most authentic clifftop links — wild, exposed and above one of the county’s finest beaches, delivering honest golf at outstanding value in a setting of natural drama.
The Nicklaus Course at St Mellion is the South West’s most challenging parkland — Jack Nicklaus’s signature design on the Cornwall/Devon border, a former European Tour venue of dramatic American character.
Boringdon Hall Golf Club combines an enjoyable Devon parkland with a five-star country house hotel and the acclaimed Gaia Spa — the South West’s definitive Stay · Play · Recover destination.
Trevose Golf & Country Club is Cornwall’s finest golf resort — a championship links above Constantine Bay with Atlantic drama, hotel accommodation and the restaurants of Padstow on the doorstep.
St Enodoc is Cornwall’s most characterful links — John Betjeman’s beloved course by the Camel Estuary, where a Norman church sits beside the 10th and the Himalaya bunker has humbled golfers for over a century.
Brora Golf Club is James Braid’s Highland gem — a natural links grazed by livestock, threaded with burns and set between the Sutherland mountains and the North Sea, offering some of Scotland’s most honest and affecting golf.
Royal Troon is an Open Championship links of dramatic contrasts — home of the Postage Stamp, ten Open Championships and one of the most strategically demanding courses on the entire rota.
Royal Dornoch is Tom Watson’s favourite golf course in the world — a natural Highland links of breathtaking quality where the journey north is part of the experience and the golf at the end of it justifies every mile.
The Ailsa Course at Turnberry is Scotland’s most visually dramatic links — Ailsa Craig rising from the Firth of Clyde, the lighthouse on the promontory, and four Open Championships written into its fairways.
Muirfield is Scotland’s most technically perfect links — sixteen Open Championships, two concentric loops of genius design, and a fairness that distinguishes it from every other major venue in world golf.
The Old Course at St Andrews is the most famous golf course on earth — a links that evolved over centuries, carrying a weight of history that no other sporting venue can match and a round every golfer must complete.
Fulford Golf Club is York’s finest parkland course — a former European Tour venue of mature elegance, made exceptional by its proximity to one of England’s most historically rich cities.
Ilkley Golf Club sits on the lower slopes of Ilkley Moor above one of Yorkshire’s most desirable towns — panoramic Wharfedale views, moorland character and outstanding post-round options in a single visit.
Rudding Park Golf offers two courses within a 300-acre Harrogate estate, anchored by a rooftop spa of genuine distinction — Yorkshire’s definitive Stay · Play · Recover golf destination.
Moortown Golf Club is Alister MacKenzie’s Yorkshire masterpiece — a moorland course above Leeds that hosted the first Ryder Cup on British soil in 1929 and remains one of England’s finest tests of golf.
Ganton Golf Club is England’s finest inland links — a Ryder Cup venue of extraordinary severity on sandy Vale of Pickering soil, where gorse walls and championship bunkering define every round.
St George’s Hill Golf Club is Harry Colt’s 1913 masterpiece — 27 holes of woodland heathland within a private residential estate above Weybridge, unchanged in character for over a century.
Queenwood Golf Club is one of the finest golf clubs in the world — Kyle Phillips’ modern heathland masterpiece on Surrey’s sandy soil, with conditioning that has no equal in English golf.
Foxhills Club & Resort is Surrey’s most complete golf resort — three courses, a full spa and hotel within a 400-acre country estate, making it the county’s premier Stay · Play · Recover destination.
Walton Heath Golf Club is Surrey heathland at its most exposed and uncompromising — open to the sky, the Old Course a Ryder Cup venue of genuine world standing.
Sunningdale Golf Club is home to two of the finest heathland courses in the world — the Old Course a masterpiece of natural golf architecture, the New its equal in character and challenge.
The West Course at Wentworth is European golf’s most celebrated heathland venue — home of the BMW PGA Championship and a cathedral of Surrey pine that every serious golfer must experience.
Cirencester Golf Club runs through the ancient beech woodland of Cirencester Park — one of Gloucestershire’s oldest and most atmospheric golf experiences, in the heart of the Cotswolds.
Burford Golf Club is a classic English parkland on the edge of one of the Cotswolds’ most beautiful towns — accessible, welcoming and an ideal component of a Cotswolds Golf & Spa Break.
Broadway Golf Club sits on the Cotswold escarpment above one of England’s most beautiful villages — a high-altitude parkland with views across fourteen counties and golf to match the setting.
Cotswold Hills Golf Club sits on the limestone escarpment above Cheltenham — a demanding, high-altitude parkland with panoramic views and a course that tests every part of the game.
Naunton Downs Golf Club is one of the Cotswolds’ best-kept secrets — a hidden gem set in a quiet limestone valley above the Windrush, with views that make every round memorable.
Cheltenham Golf Club is a mature parkland layout set on the edge of Gloucestershire’s most celebrated town — a precise, demanding test of golf in the heart of the Cotswolds.
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