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Everything about the top golf courses in London
The top golf courses in and around London reflect a ranking shaped by verified reviews from golfers and by the strength of the surrounding golf landscape. Sunningdale Old Course is the reference point for English inland golf and the course against which the entire London heathland belt is measured. Willie Park Jr's 1901 design on the Berkshire sandy soil, revised by H.S. Colt with the addition of the celebrated par-4 fifth, produces conditions through spring and autumn that are as close to links golf in firmness and speed as any inland course in the world. The heather is dense and real. The Scots pine and oak have grown to canopy scale that creates enclosed corridors on the inland holes. The bunkering catches exactly the shot that feels safe. Its difficulty is entirely architectural rather than topographic, the card yardage is modest and the course does not care. Walton Heath Old Course is Sunningdale's most direct counterpart and the course that differs from it most usefully for a visitor playing both in a single trip. Herbert Fowler's 1904 design on open North Downs moorland is exposed where Sunningdale is sheltered, elevated where Sunningdale is in a valley, and dominated by denser, higher heather rough than any other course in the Surrey circuit. Its openness to wind produces days that have no equivalent in the more sheltered Berkshire clubs, and the moorland character, rolling, heather-dominated, exposed, is entirely its own. The Berkshire Golf Club, near Sunningdale on similar Bagshot Formation sand, holds two of the best heathland courses in England in the Red and Blue Courses. Both were designed by Herbert Fowler in the early 1930s on naturally sandy heathland. The Red Course's six par-3s are among the most celebrated set of short holes on the English heathland belt. Visitor access is available and the two courses together provide a full day of golf that rivals any comparable pairing in the London circuit. Swinley Forest Golf Club, the most private and the least publicised of the great London heathland courses, is H.S. Colt's design on a stretch of Crown Estate forest in Berkshire. Its routing through ancient pine and birch on deep sand is considered by those who have played it to be among the finest pieces of golf course design in England. Access is by introduction only, but golfers who achieve it consistently describe it as the most natural and least ostentatious of the great courses in the circuit.
