England | Courses & Resorts
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Bovey Castle
Think of Dartmoor and images of wild moorland, rock outcrops, granite tors and scary-eyed escaped convicts wielding axes spring readily to mind. It is a place of myth, beauty, fact and fiction.
Fans of Sherlock Holmes, for example, will be…
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The Oxfordshire
“Padraig Harrington took a 13 on the 17th in the Benson & Hedges when it was played here in 1996.”
When you’re a high handicapper, that’s not necessarily the thing you most want to hear when putting on your golf…
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Brocket Hall
Not content with two fabulous championship courses, 543 acres of ancient parkland, a 250-year-old stately home that has housed prime ministers and hosted conferences of world leaders, luxurious lodge accommodation, a stunning clubhouse and a Michelin-starred restaurant, Brocket Hall, near…
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The Belfry
One can’t talk of golf in the Midlands without mentioning The Belfry. Considered by many to be the jewel in the Midland crown because of its long association with the Ryder Cup, Benson & Hedges International and British Masters, The…
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The Abbey
Donald Steel had a hand in designing many of the region’s best-loved courses. The Abbey Hotel Golf and Country Club, like the Forest of Arden, is a relative newcomer having been built under Steel’s gaze in the late 1970s but…
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Hawkstone Park
One of the hidden gems in the Midlands is Hawkstone Park, near Shrewsbury, where golfers get the best of both worlds. Those who want a real challenge can take to the Championship course – known to locals as The Windmill.…
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Forest of Arden
While Monty might have blamed an errant photographer for his chagrin, observers, myself included, knew it was the course that caused the dour Scot to unravel. The par-five seventh hole at the Marriott Forest of Arden can do such things…
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Brocket Hall
Unless blessed with sufficient stamina to take on 36 holes in a day or the wherewithal to stay the night and play two courses over two days, visitors to Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire have an agonising choice – the Melbourne…
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The Oxfordshire
When you’ve got a course that consistently ranks among the best in the country, with some of the world’s leading golf holes, it could be churlish to want more. But that’s exactly what The Oxfordshire coveted after a very successful…
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Woodhall Spa
A colleague of mine once shamefully referred to Lincolnshire as something of a “golfing backwater”. While curious, it was a bizarre, unfortunate and unfair label for a county blessed with a wide range of quality courses as big as befits…
