Golf Courses in Berkshire
Bearwood Golf Club
Founded: 1986
Location: Berkshire , Sindlesham
Holes: 9
Bearwood Golf Club is situated roughly a mile and a half from Arborfield Cross. It is a parkland course that is relatively easy walking, meaning players of all ages and abilities, and with all pockets and persuasions will enjoy their time. Water does, however, come into play on several of the holes and a super 40-acre lake on the sixth and seventh holes will test your club selection and accuracy to the limit. Get it wrong here and you could be heading for a watery grave. The members are a very friendly bunch and are well known for making visitors feel welcome.
Bearwood
Lakes Golf Club
Founded: 1996
Location: Berkshire, Wokingham
Holes: 18
Bearwood Lakes Golf Club is an oasis of calm and beauty set in the midst of one of the most commercially vibrant areas of Europe. With a backdrop of mature oak, lime and beech and surrounded by Scots pine, it's undulating terrain rolls along the banks of Bearwood Lake, with dramatic views of the whole Bearwood Estate. The course is maintained to the highest possible standards by an exceptionally dedicated and knowledgeable green keeping team using the most modern equipment. The finest bent and rye grasses, coupled with the latest irrigation systems have been used to provide superior playing surfaces all year round. Bearwood Lakes Golf Club has been created to be challenging for all levels of play, from beginners to professionals
The Berkshire Golf Club
Founded: 1928
Location: Berkshire , Ascot
Holes: 18 + 18
The Berkshire Golf Club is one of England 's more exclusive golf clubs and can be a bit pricey for a round. But, if you're prepared to pay for quality (and this is sheer quality in every sense of the word) then The Berkshire is the very place. Some of the best amateur players in the history of golf have played The Berkshire as it is home to the annual Berkshire Trophy. Recent winners of the 72-hole stroke-play event are England team member Ross Fisher and Walker Cup star and former British Amateur champion Gary Wolstenholme. There are two courses on offer, the Red Course and the Blue Course.
Billingbear Park Golf Club
Founded: 1994
Location: Berkshire , Wokingham
Holes: 9 + 9(par3)
Originally one of the oldest golf courses in Southern England, golf has been played at Billingbear Park since the late nineteenth century. The land was then farmed during the two world wars before being rebuilt as a golf course in 1989. Since then a new nine hole course has been added, so that there are now two, nine hole golf courses on this medieval site.
Bird Hills Golf Club
Founded: 1985
Location: Berkshire , Maidenhead
Holes: 18
Bird Hills is set in the heart of Berkshire 's picturesque countryside, with open fairways, plenty of water hazards and well placed bunkers, the par 72 course is carefully designed to provide an enjoyable round of golf, for every level of golfer.
Blue Mountain Golf Centre
Founded: 1992
Location: Berkshire , Bracknell
Holes: 18
The Blue Mountain Golf Centre boasts an 18-hole, 6,097 yard course situated 10 minutes from the M4 and M3. It also includes excellent teaching and practice facilities. The parkland course features water hazards and the centre also has a golf shop, buggies, driving range and clubhouse with bar and restaurant.
Burnham Beeches Golf Club
Founded: 1891
Location: Berkshire , Burnham
Holes: 18
Founded in 1891, Burnham Beeches Golf Club is situated on the edge of the Thames Valley with the old town of Beaconsfield to the north and Burnham village to the south. The course measures 6,458 yards, has a Par70 (SSS 71) and offers a true and challenging test of golf.
Calcot Park Golf Club
Founded: 1930
Location: Berkshire , Reading
Holes: 18
Situated on the outskirts of Reading in Royal Berkshire, Calcot Park is one of the most picturesque parkland courses around with an abundance of woodlands and downs and a daunting signature hole that requires the utmost of accuracy from any golfer in that there is a small matter of a lake to be cleared from the tee!
Castle Royle Golf & Country Club
Founded: 1994
Location: Berkshire , Reading
Holes: 18
Set in rolling Berkshire countryside, Castle Royle is one of the finest Golf Clubs in England where you will enjoy year-round play on a superb, 18-hole par 72 Championship Golf course designed by Neil Coles to exacting USGA standards. The course, established in 1994, has been configured in two loops of nine holes combining the characteristics of a links and parkland course. Castle Royle has hosted a number of tournaments, most recent of which was a PGA European Seniors Tour.
Caversham Heath Golf Club
Founded:
Location: Berkshire , Reading
Holes: 18
Nestling on the borders of Berkshire and Oxfordshire 3 miles from Reading , in the grounds of the historic Mapledurham Estate, lies Caversham Heath Golf Club . Boasting a truly challenging Championship Length course of 7,151 yards, with superb clubhouse and function facilities. The 18-hole golf course , built to exacting USGA standards, is unusually dry in winter whilst fully irrigated in summer, and therefore offers dependable year round play. The course has matured well, and rewards golfers of all levels, who enjoy golf in a breathtakingly beautiful heathland setting.
Datchet Golf Club
Founded: 1890
Location: Berkshire, Slough
Holes: 9
You may be forgiven for thinking that Datchet Golf Course is ‘an easy track'. Since 1890 Datchet Golf Club has been providing a tough challenge for its members and visitors alike. Discreetly tucked away just a lob wedge from the centre of the village, you'll be warmly welcomed by its members and staff alike.
Deanwood Park Golf Club
Founded: 1995
Location: Berkshire , Newbury
Holes: 9
Deanwood Park Golf Club, a treasure in England 's most beautiful county: Royal Berkshire, with rolling downs, tranquil rivers and friendly people. Our lovely course is situated only two miles from historic Newbury. Deanwood Park provides a challenge fit for all standards of golfer, with small well built contoured greens coupled with tight winding fairways.
Donnington Grove Country Club
Founded: 1993
Location: Berkshire , Newbury
Holes: 18
The Donnington Grove Estate is set in a delightful and secluded position on the outskirts of Newbury and is overlooked by the historic Donnington Castle . It runs to 550 acres and is a mixture of parkland, farmland and woodland, with the River Lambourn running through it. In November 1991 work began on building a championship golf course and the conversion of the house into a hotel. The course architect was Dave Thomas, the Ryder Cup player, who has been responsible for several well known courses, including the Brabazon at the Belfry and Bowood in Wiltshire. Donnington Grove Country Club opened in June 1993. Formally known as Parasampia Golf Club.
Donnington Valley Golf Club
Founded: 1988
Location: Berkshire , Newbury
Holes: 18
The Course, re-designed and lengthened between 1998 and 2000, is set in beautiful rolling countryside, and is now a challenging 6353 yards, 18 hole, par 71 from the back tees. Although some of the holes are quite forgiving the closing four holes are regarded as one of the toughest finishes in the country, with water featuring prominently on 15th, 16th and 17th holes. The clubhouse, Snelsmore House, a Grade II listed Victorian building, commands magnificent views over the 9th/18th green and offers members exceptional golfing and social facilities.
Downshire Golf Complex
Founded: 1988
Location: Berkshire , Wokingham
Holes: 18
With a reputation as one of the finest Pay and Play courses in the country, the Downshire Golf Complex in Wokingham offers a range of top quality facilities in a delightful setting, including a hugely popular parkland course. Rated in the top ten municipal courses in the country, the superb 18 hole course is well established, and benefits from the best of the Berkshire countryside, with its firm, tree-lined fairways and lush, even greens. The Downshire's parkland setting also makes good use of water features, offering interesting and varied challenges to golfers of all standards.
East Berkshire Golf Club
Founded: 1903
Location: Berkshire , Crowthorne
Holes: 18
The Course stands on the North Downs near the western end of that glorious belt of pine and heather country that was once the Forest of Windsor . An ancient Roman road, known to later superstition as the Devil's Highway, traverses the southern edge of the course, but little signs of it remain, and the visitors attention is more likely to be caught by the beauty of the surroundings, the brilliant orange of the gorse in spring time standing out against the dark green of the firs, or in autumn the rich purple of the heather contrasting with the varied tints of the magnificent old oaks and beeches.
Goring & Streatley Golf Club
Founded: 1895
Location: Berkshire , Streatley-on-Thames
Holes: 18
Founded as a 9 hole course in 1895 and eventually, following acquisition of additional land in 1928, extended to the present 18 holes measuring 6,355 yards, Goring & Streatley Golf Club has established itself in the hearts of members & visitors alike, as a mirror of the traditional and evolutionary trends in the game. The course has magnificent views of the Ridgeway & the River Thames winding like a silver ribbon on its way from Oxford to Reading and is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, which almost consoles the ravages of a bad round of golf!
Hennerton Golf Club
Founded: 1992
Location: Berkshire , Wargrave
Holes: 18
Hennerton Golf Club is set in some of the most beautiful and tranquil countryside in Berks overlooking spectacular views of the Thames Valley . Hennerton originally opened as a 9-hole course in 1992 and after four years of planning and construction opened as an 18-hole course on 3rd June 2006.
Hurst Golf Club
Founded: 1979
Location: Berkshire, Reading
Holes: 9
Hurst Golf Course is set in the beautiful Berkshire countryside adjacent to Dinton Pastures waterways. The Club enjoys some shared facilities with the local sailing club and as you can imagine, water is a feature of the Hurst Golf Course.
Maidenhead Golf Club
Founded: 1896
Location: Berkshire , Maidenhead
Holes: 18
Set out in 150 acres of splendid wooded parkland previously owned by Lord Desborough, less than half a mile from the town centre, Maidenhead Golf Club first opened for play on 12th December 1896. The course architect was Alex Simpson, a Scot from Forfar, whose design was enhanced in 1908 when the legendary J.H.Taylor, five times winner of The Open Championship, was commissioned to introduce improvements. These included constructing 17 new bunkers and lengthening the course by 700 yards. Maidenhead Golf Club is a Private Members Club established in 1896 and management prides itself on the welcome that members and guests receive at the Club.
The Club at Mapledurham
Founded: 1992
Location: Berkshire , Reading
Holes: 18
Opened 1992 the golf club is set in the heart of the Oxfordshire Countryside in the Chiltern Hills, an area of outstanding natural beauty, and offers panoramic views across the Thames Valley. The interior of the Club has a relaxing atmosphere with the Pulse Café offering everything from sandwiches to three course meals.
Mill Ride Golf Club
Founded: 1990
Location: Berkshire , Ascot
Holes: 18
At Ascot's Mill Ride Estate, you are greeted by a landscape of perfectly manicured and cross cut fairways intermingled with lakes and the mounding and hollows which give this championship golf course a unique parkland design coupled with an inland links feel to the starting and closing holes. Designed by international course architect Donald Steele, golfers must contend with seven picturesque lakes which all come into play (some twice) and numerous copses of woodland which all help to create a variety of playing conditions. The opening and closing holes have a links type feel about them with the 1st and 17th holes sharing a St.Andrews style double green, and a relaxing half way hut well positioned to recharge the batteries for the memorable 10th and 11th signature holes that await.
Newbury & Crookham Golf Club
Founded: 1874
Location: Berkshire , Newbury
Holes: 18
Set against the picturesque backcloth of the Hampshire Downs, Newbury and Crookham offers views of enchanting woodland and beautiful parkland, a visual delight, meandering from Greenham Common to Newbury Racecourse and back. Although under 6,000 yards the course has the feel of being much longer and is a tight 18 hole challenge where accuracy is all-important. Improvements in the past few years, undertaken to modernize the course, have taken place under the guidance of the internationally known Course Architect, Howard Swan. The course offers magnificent vistas at almost every high point , at the 3rd green bluebells abound in the Spring, as do thousands of daffodils planted at the 8th green, greeting the weary golfer and lifting his or her spirits as one of the most difficult par 4s in the south of England is completed.
Newbury Racecourse Golf Centre
Founded: 1994
Location: Berkshire , Newbury
Holes: 18
Set in the Berkshire countryside Newbury Golf Centre offers some of the finest golf facilities in the South East of England.
Reading Golf Club
Founded: 1910
Location: Berkshire , Reading
Holes: 18
The course at Reading Golf Club is a great test for golfers of all levels, making splendid use of the undulating wooded terrain of the Chiltern Hills . The trees and bunkers on the course, combined with the undulating ground, place a premium on accurate driving. A golf course has been on the present site since 1910, originally known as Caversham and South Oxon Golf Club. The original 12 holes were designed by James Braid and a further 6 holes were added in 1911, although there have been various alterations throughout the years.
Royal Ascot Golf Club
Founded: 1887
Location: Berkshire , Ascot
Holes: 18
Royal Ascot Golf Club founded in 1887 was in the centre of Royal Ascot Racecourse for 117 Years surrounded by Ascot Heath. Due to the expansion of Royal Ascot Race Course a New Golf Course & Clubhouse started construction in January 2004 approximately 1/2 mile from the Old Course & within the confines of Windsor Forest . The construction of Royal Ascot's brand new 18 hole Championship Parkland Course opened for play in August 2005. The New Clubhouse opened earlier during 2004.
Sand Martins Golf Club
Founded: 1993
Location: Berkshire , Wokingham
Holes: 18
Our challenging 6,212, yard par 70 course is maintained to the very highest standards, with tees and greens built to USGA specifications. Opened in 1993, the course has been cleverly designed with two distinct and contrasting nine holes; an outward nine, set in parkland with lakes, water hazards and dog-legs and a stunning 'links style' inward nine with sand banks, broom and a host of challenges. Sand Martins is the perfect risk and reward golf course, offering a challenge to golfers of all levels.
Sonning Golf Club
Founded: 1911
Location: Berkshire , Reading
Holes: 18
Sonning Golf Club is situated in the heart of the beautiful countryside of Berkshire and its picturesque tree lined fairways will be fondly remembered by all who play here. Peter Alliss has previously described the 6th hole at Sonning, as “one of the best holes in the South of England”.
Sunningdale Ladies Golf Club
Founded: 1902
Location: Berkshire , Ascot
Holes: 18
Sunningdale Ladies Golf Club is situated in Cross Road , Sunningdale off the A30, it is a few minutes from Sunningdale Village and the Level Crossing. It is adjacent to Sunningdale Golf Course in Ridge Mount Road . Sunningdale was developed on land originally forming part of Windsor Forest , it was bought in 1524 by St John's College Cambridge who still own it today. In those days Sunningdale had few houses, the area being mostly common land covered with gorse, heather and a few trees.
Sunningdale Golf Club
Founded: 1900
Location: Berkshire , Ascot
Holes: 18 + 18
All that one would hope to find in the ideal golf club is in abundance at Sunningdale. Two magnificently conditioned courses of superb design and so pleasing to the eye, a clubhouse which provides members and visitors with an unforgettable experience of pampered comfort, accompanied by exceptional food and wine, a staff that anticipates and provides for the members' wishes, no matter now eccentric they may be, a first class professional's shop and competent instruction on hand, the most knowledgeable caddies in the game and the finest halfway house.
Swinley Forest Golf Club
Founded: 1909
Location: Berkshire , Ascot
Holes: 18 + 18
Swinley Forest is an absolutely charming golf course sited on the famous Surrey/Berkshire sand belt, but it is a club that is frozen in time, exclusive, unusual and totally eccentric. In fact you would be hard pressed to describe it as a conventional golf club: there is no captain and despite being in existence for nearly 100 years, no history, except in its members' heads. Only recently have scorecards been printed, holes allocated par figures, and competitions introduced for Swinley's distinguished gentlemen members.
Temple Golf Club
Founded: 1909
Location: Berkshire , Maidenhead
Holes: 18
Temple is a beautiful old course set on the edge of the Chilterns with stunning views across the Thames Valley . The course was designed by the 1887 and 1889 Open Champion Willie Park Junior as an inland links course and to this day the spirit of his course is maintained. Since its founding in 1909, the Club has been a private members club, which is always delighted to extend a very warm welcome to visitors.
Theale Golf Centre
Founded:
Location: Berkshire , Reading
Holes: 18
Theale Golf Club is set in the heart of the Berkshire countryside and is a course well worth a visit due to it's varied and challenging golfing holes and welcoming ambience. We have a large open clubhouse which includes a bar, lounge and restaurant.
Wessex Downs Golf Club
Founded:
Location: Berkshire , Beenham
Holes: 9
Wessex Downs Golf Course is a Pay and Play Golf Course located in the Beautiful Countryside of Berkshire. The relaxed atmosphere of the Beenham Course creates the ideal location for Golfers of varying ability. Although the overall terrain of The Wessex Downs Golf Course is moderately flat. There are enough hazards to challenge the most skilful players.
The West Berkshire Golf Club
Founded: 1975
Location: Berkshire , Newbury
Holes: 18
The West Berkshire , founded in 1975 the Club is renowned for its relaxed and friendly atmosphere. The course provides a good challenge for all standards of player thanks to a choice of tee positions, ranging from 5,450 yards to a championship length of over 7,000 yards. Set on the Berkshire Downs, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, the location offers the players a peaceful round of golf amongst tree-lined fairways and many areas of the course provide stunning views of the surrounding countryside. The modern construction techniques used on greens and tees ensure that the golf course is always presented in good condition and playable at all times of the year.
Wexham Park Golf Course
Founded: 1977
Location: Berkshire , Slough
Holes: 18 + 9 + 9
There are three courses at Wexham, the BLUE 18 hole course, the challenging RED 9 hole course and the GREEN 9 hole course which is ideal for inexperienced and novice golfers. All three courses are open 7 days a week from dawn to dusk.
Winter Hill Golf Club
Founded: 1976
Location: Berkshire , Maidenhead
Holes: 18
Winter Hill is a beautiful parkland course that's set in a curve of the world famous River Thames with wonderful views across the surrounding area and beyond. There are some particularly long par fours and a couple of par fives that will test your long iron play to its very limits. The heavily guarded greens and numerous hidden surprises mean this course is no pushover - you need to keep your wits about you at all times or pay the penalty. It is a lovely looking course and the tees and fairways are usually in great condition while the greens are some of the best around. In the summer months they can become quite fast, making those shaky three footers seem just that bit longer!
Wokefield Park Golf Club
Founded: 1996
Location: Berkshire , Reading
Holes: 18
Wokefield Park is tucked away in a peaceful and picturesque corner of the Berkshire countryside. The golf club is complemented by a range of on-site leisure facilities and there are plenty of local places of interest within easy reach of the centre. Designed to USPGA standards, the 7000-yard championship course at Wokefield Park boasts elevated tees, mature trees, streams and nine lakes providing a challenging game to golfers of all standards in a beautiful setting.
