Kent Golf Adice Please

[Dale Jackson]

A group from my club are traveling to the UK in September of this year.  We do this on a regular basis and arrange friendly matches and social activities with clubs in the area.  Our itinerary has just been thrown off a bit with the cancellation of one of the clubs in the Kent area.

Can anyone help with some recommendations for clubs near Deal/St Georges?  We will already be playing at Cinque Ports, Littlestone, Ashdown Forest and Rye.  I am aware, of course, of Prince's and Royal St Georges.

Thanks

[Melvyn Morrow]

Dale

Golf Clubs in Kent are as follows

Ashford Golf Club
Austin Lodge Golf Club
Bearsted Golf Club
Beckenham Place Park Golf Club
Birchwood Park Golf Club
Boughton Golf Club
Broke Hill Golf Club
Bromley Golf Club
Broome Park Golf Club
Canterbury Golf Club
Chart Hills Golf Club
Cherry Lodge Golf Club
Chestfield Golf Club
Cobtree Manor Park Golf Club
Darenth Valley Golf Club
Dartford Golf Club
Deangate Ridge Golf Club
Edenbridge Golf Club
Etchinghill Golf Club
Executive Golf Club At Cranbrook
Faversham Golf Club
Fawkham Golf Club
Gillingham Golf Club
Hawkhurst Golf Club
Herne Bay Golf Club
Hever Golf Club
Hilden Park Golf Course
Homelands Better Golf Centre
Hythe Imperial Golf Club
Kings Hill Golf Club
Knole Park Golf Club
Lamberhurst Golf Club
Langley Park Golf Club
Leeds Castle Golf Club
Littlestone Golf Club
Lullingstone Park Golf Club
Lydd Golf Club
Mid Kent Golf Club
Moatlands Golf Club
Nevill Golf Club
Nizels Golf Club
North Foreland Golf Club
Oastpark Golf Club
Poult Wood Golf Club
Prince'S Golf Club
Redlibbets Golf Club
Rochester And Cobham Park Golf Club
Romney Warren Golf Club
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club
Royal St George'S Golf Club
Sene Valley Golf Club
Sheerness Golf Club
Shortlands Golf Club
Sittingbourne And Milton Regis Golf Club
St Augustines Golf Club
Sundridge Park Golf Club
Sweetwoods Park Golf Club
Tenterden Golf Club
The London Golf Club
The Ridge Golf Club
Tudor Park Hotel
Tunbridge Wells Golf Club
Upchurch River Valley Golf Club
Walmer And Kingsdown Golf Club
Weald Of Kent Golf Club
West Malling Golf Club
Westgate And Birchington Golf Club
Whitstable And Seasalter Golf Club
Wildernesse Golf Club
Woodlands Manor Golf Club
Wrotham Heath Golf Club

Well its a starting point right.
Good Luck

Melvyn

[Melvyn Morrow]

Dale

Sorry missed East Sussex which read as follows


Ashdown Forest Golf Hotel
Brighton And Hove Golf Club
Cooden Beach Golf Club
Crowborough Beacon Golf Club
Dale Hill Hotel
Dewlands Manor Golf Club
East Brighton Golf Club
East Sussex National Golf Club
Eastbourne Downs Golf Club
Eastbourne Golfing Park
Hastings Golf Club
Highwoods Golf Club
Hollingbury Park Golf Club
Holtye Golf Club
Horam Park Golf Club
Lewes Golf Club
Mid Sussex Golf Club
Peacehaven Golf Club
Piltdown Golf Club
Royal Eastbourne Golf Club
Rye Golf Club
Seaford Golf Club
Seaford Head Golf Club
Sedlescombe Golf Club
Singing Hills Golf Club
The Dyke Golf Club
Waterhall Golf Club
Wellshurst Golf Club
West Hove Golf Club
Willingdon Golf Club

Melvyn

[Brent Hutto]

Consider Walmer & Kingsdown, just on the other side of Deal from Royal Cinque Ports. I played there on a wonderfully breezy afternoon in June, 2006 during their Open Week. The course has fine, firm turf atop the chalk cliffs. Wonderful views of the Channel and enough interest to the layout given how exposed it is to the wind. The members I met were highly commendable chaps, not so sure I'd necessarily recommend the bacon sandwich at the turn which left me rather...indisposed for the remainder of my round. A fine club, though.

[Scott Warren]

Dale,

I'd recommend Canterbury as an inland option, which is en route from London to Deal/Sandwich.

A humble Colt course that remains quite faithful to what he designed, with a cracking set of par threes.

North Foreland and Walmer & Kingsdown (both very close to Sandwich and Deal) are said to offer some great views, but are not top-class layouts.

Chart Hills is also in that region, a Faldo course that is in the current GW GB&I Top 100. Further inland you have Wildernesse and Knole Park.

[Jon Earl]

Dale

Sounds like you have the obvious covered.

Away from the coast I enjoyed Chart Hills and, if you are willing to travel, Knole Park for a bit of Abercromby.

[Scott Warren]

Royal St George's is surely expensive at £180 for 36 and lunch, but you'd be hard-pressed, I think, to find a Buda 2009 participant who didn't think it was worth every cent.

[John Mayhugh]

Royal St George's is surely expensive at £180 for 36 and lunch, but you'd be hard-pressed, I think, to find a Buda 2009 participant who didn't think it was worth every cent.

Just avoid the bankers' outing.

Not sure which day your group will be playing Rye, but if you went to or from the London area via West Sussex, you wouldn't be sorry!

[Scott Warren]

I was thinking the same thing, John. If they are flying into Gatwick it isn't even really much of a diversion, especially if they are playing RAF anyway...

[Eric Strulowitz]

A group from my club are traveling to the UK in September of this year.  We do this on a regular basis and arrange friendly matches and social activities with clubs in the area.  Our itinerary has just been thrown off a bit with the cancellation of one of the clubs in the Kent area.

Can anyone help with some recommendations for clubs near Deal/St Georges?  We will already be playing at Cinque Ports, Littlestone, Ashdown Forest and Rye.  I am aware, of course, of Prince's and Royal St Georges.

Thanks

Would very much reccommend Canterbury.  A wonderful, rolling walk.  Some great par 3's.  And afterwards, a wonderful, scenic town with great restaurants and pubs.

Also, about a half hour from Rye, a little known course called Cooden Beach.  It was the surprise of our last trip to the Kent area, we absolutely loved that course.  Some holes were links, some were parkland, others resembled Florida like swamp golf.

Have a ball

[Mark Chaplin]

Dale,

By far the best inland courses in Kent are Knole Park and Wildernese in Sevenoaks, Knole for charm and Wildernese for conditioning. 

Wrotham Heath, Sundridge Park, Langley Park, Canterbury, Lamberhurst, North Foreland & Rochester and Cobham are all very nice member golf clubs in Kent.

Likewise Nevill, Willingdon, Piltdown and Cooden Beach in East Sussex.

Mark

[Bill_McBride]

I think I'd squeeze in another round at Deal.

Happy to see you are playing Limestone, it was the sleeper of the trip for Buda 2009.  Another round there would be fun as well.

I guess what I'm really saying is that the links courses are so much fun it's hard to exaggerate!