TheCourses
Twenty-seven holes on two hundred and forty acres of Surrey heath, kept as heathland first and golf course second.
The Heath Course is the championship eighteen, laid out in 1908 and largely unchanged since. The Pine Nine followed in 1931, cut through the old pinewood to the west of the clubhouse. Between them, they offer a long morning's golf or a quick nine before dinner, on turf that drains in hours and plays firm and fast for most of the year.
The Heath Course
The Heath Course was laid out by Arthur Hammond on land the club's founders leased from the Chobham estate, and it has changed remarkably little since. The routing climbs gently from the clubhouse onto the high heath, turns at the old well and returns through the pines to finish beneath the clubhouse windows.
- Holes
- 18
- Par
- 72
- Yards
- 6,864
The Pine Nine
The Pine Nine was built by the club's head greenkeeper, Walter Pryce, in the pinewood west of the clubhouse, on land too sheltered for heather and too beautiful to leave alone. It is shorter than the Heath Course and more intimate, with greens tucked into clearings and fairways carpeted at their edges with pine needles.
- Holes
- 9
- Par
- 34
- Yards
- 2,802
The Practice Ground
A full-length range with grass tees from April to October, a short game area with three practice bunkers and a putting green beside the first tee, cut to the same pace as the greens on the course.
In winter, the Academy studio offers covered bays with launch monitor analysis.
Caring for the heath
A greenkeeping team of fourteen looks after the courses and the heath around them. Heather is cut in small patches in rotation, pine and birch seedlings are pulled by hand, and the bunkers are raked each morning before the first tee time.
Lowland heath is now rarer than rainforest. Ours is home to nightjars, Dartford warblers and sand lizards, and much of the work is done with them in mind.