Golf CoursesEach course offers a different challenge with one thing in common - unhurried golf with panoramic backdrops of unspoiled countryside. Conveniently located close to excellent shopping, historic cities, towns and villages and wonderful places of interest. Your stay in the Cotswolds will be rewarded with so many memories to take home with you.
For those visiting in 2010 for the Ryder Cup the area is a perfect stepping stone to
Celtic Manor home to this historic trans-Atlantic challenge.
Broadway Uniquely located 850 ft above sea level on a Cotswold escarpment with exceptional views over the Vale of Evesham, this inland links style golf course provides a challenge for golfers of all abilities. It offers holes that with their natural and artificial hazards require drives that are skillfully placed, approaches carefully judged and the greens expertly read. Characterised by rolling fairways intersected by Cotswold dry stone walls and with undulating greens, that will test the best of golfers.
The 5th hole stands out as the signature hole, designed by Dr Alistair McKenzie of Augusta fame in the 1920's, this par 3 requires pin point accuracy onto a contoured green some 100ft below the tee. Normally a 7 iron but maybe even a driver when the elements are against you. The 19th hole is exceptional too, Broadway having won the 2007 Golf World, Whyte & Mackay award.
Chipping Sodbury Founded in 1905 and set at the foot of the Cotswold and close to the historic market town of Chipping Sodbury lies Chipping Sodbury Golf Club. The Beaufort Course was designed by Fred Hawtree and is widely acknowledged as a superb parkland course with views to rolling countryside.
It has hosted numerous championships across the years and presents a challenge to all levels of golfer.
Water hazards are a feature on many holes and the greens, though large, play smaller than their size, as many of them are raised slightly from the surrounding terrain.
Minchinhampton Set high on the Cotswolds both the Cherington and Avening courses offer scenic countryside and outstanding tests of golf. The Cherington designed by Martin Hawtree is a testing inland links course and an Open Qualifying venue. The Avening Course designed by Martin's father, Fred, is a parkland course offering a different but no less challenging experience.
Alternatively, on the opposite side to the picturesque Cotswold market town of Minchinhampton lies the Old Course. Here golf began in 1889 and has continued without interruption to the present day. Played over open grassland on common land now owned by the National Trust it represents an original test of golfing skill.
How to find Broadway Golf Club