Great courses within 2-3 hours of London

[OldMate]

I have suddenly been given Wednesday and Thursday off work and am keen to spend it playing one or two of the better courses nearish to London while I assume they will be less busy mid-week. I have a golf travel brochure at home which I will check out tonight but does anyone have any suggestions of somewhere within 2-3 hours of London (hoping for top 50-100 courses or better) that I could realistically get onto at short notice. Plan would be to head out of London tomorrow and stay Wed night wherever I end up if the distance justifies it.

Cheers
Oldmate

 

[Ethan]

Too many to count.

If you want somewhere really good, look to the Surrey sandbelt, in my opinion.

The Berkshire (36 holes), Swinley Forest, New Zealand, the three 'W': West Hill, Woking, Worplesdon, Hankley Common, Sunningdale (36 holes), Walton Heath (36), The Addington, St George's Hill.

Some of these places can be a tad sniffy with visitors, but no harm done to ring up and ask.

2-3 hours could also take you down to the coast, so Royal St Georges, Princes, Deal (aka Royal Cinque Ports) would be in reach too.

 

[pbrown7582]

Up to 3hours out of London that just about covers the whole of England!

Depending on your budget there are many to choose from quite near London sunningdale, Woburn, Walton Heath, the grove wentworth the Berkshire Hanley common.
To name but a few

 

[richart]

I would avoid Walton Heath, the greens were very poor for the US Open qualifying two weeks ago. Try Liphook in Hampshire. If you play after 4.00 the green fee is £35 from memory. There is also a Travel Lodge there which is usually cheap. You could then play my club, Blackmoor, or Hankley Common, Hindhead, West Surrey the following day. They are all within 20 minutes of Liphook.

 

[Bratty]

All of those are great courses. I have it on good authority that The Addington is playing brilliantly at the moment. West Hill would be top of my list, having never played it. Bearwood Lakes is another good one.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Get down to Bournemouth, loads of cheap B&B's and you can choose from Parkstone, Broadstone, Ferndown, Isle of Purbeck, Remedy Oak and a couple of decent public courses in Queens Park and Meyrick Park. On the way down you would also pass quite close to Stoneham and Brockenhurst Manor which are also very good.

 

[GTO NEMESIS]

The Buckinghamshire = http://www.buckinghamshiregc.com/ & http://www.top100golfcourses.co.uk/htmlsite/productdetails.asp?id=136

Stoke Park = http://www.stokepark.com/golf/index.html & http://www.top100golfcourses.co.uk/htmlsite/productdetails.asp?id=102

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Top two are very close to me (within 10 mins drive) and I have several friends who play them regularly and really rate them.

The last one (Hanbury) is where we are holding our July Company golf day and is very well rated by people I work with (Last couple were at The Grove & The Belfry and they prefer this course)

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Loads to choose from and so I'd get on the phone and see what deals you can get for twilight, etc.

 

[HotDogAssassin]

Up to 3hours out of London that just about covers the whole of England

And some of France.

 

[OldMate]

Thanks all - have know managed to convert it into a 4 day weekend so will have a bit more time on my hands and am looking into a lot of your suggestions. Apologies for the broad question - being new to the UK my knowledge of the geography is limited.

 

[matriga]

Not from England but played Sunningdale once. Great course

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Not from England but played Sunningdale once. Great course

Yes indeed......this great.................

http://www.sunningdale-golfclub.co.uk/greenfees

 

[HawkeyeMS]

I have suddenly been given Wednesday and Thursday off work and am keen to spend it playing one or two of the better courses nearish to London while I assume they will be less busy mid-week. I have a golf travel brochure at home which I will check out tonight but does anyone have any suggestions of somewhere within 2-3 hours of London (hoping for top 50-100 courses or better) that I could realistically get onto at short notice. Plan would be to head out of London tomorrow and stay Wed night wherever I end up if the distance justifies it.

Cheers
Oldmate

Get yourself down to our neck of the woods on the surrey\hampshire\berkshire borders and you could fill 2 weeks playing great courses

 

[Scadge]

If you've got the weekend, you could do a lot worse than Cromer, Sherringham and Hunstanton - fine and largely unpretentious links with good B&Bs around. You could add Royal West Norfolk but forum reviews are a bit mixed

 

[RGDave]

http://www.westessexgolfclub.co.uk/pages.php/index.html

£20 twilight....

No Fila or Burberry baseball caps
Kappa tracksuit tops (his and hers)
Shell suits (as if )

 

[RGDave]

Get yourself down to our neck of the woods on the surrey\hampshire\berkshire borders and you could fill 2 years playing great courses

fixed for you. :clap:

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

If you've got the weekend, you could do a lot worse than Cromer, Sherringham and Hunstanton - fine and largely unpretentious links with good B&Bs around. You could add Royal West Norfolk but forum reviews are a bit mixed

Played all those courses, RWN is the best of the lot followed by Hunstanton then Sheringham and finally Cromer. Also worth a visit up there for 'fun' golf is Great Yarmouth inside the racecourse, a very underrated little track.