London Golf Club

Great to play a quality course in excellent winter condition. Expensive but worth it

I've played a lot of golf courses in the last 30 years, some good, some, not so, but nothing has come close to The London Golf Club I played on Tuesday 2nd June 2015. This came about from the ill fated "SLA Golf Day" that was cancelled on the TSG Events page. I had already paid in advance so, couldn't really cancel and was really worried about the event actually taking place and hence losing my money I had paid. My fears were allayed the second I entered the gates and was met by the security guard at his hut. "SLA Golf Day" I said, "Yes, Sir, Straight to the end of the driveway and pull up at the clubhouse front doors". Now, although the weather was shockingly bad, (50mph winds and rain), and it had put me on a bit of a downer, pulling up at the clubhouse suddenly changed all that. I was greeted by several officials who took our clubs and put them ready for us on the golf buggies provided. I have to say, it's the first time I have felt like a VIP at any golf course and trust me, I'm not that by any stretch of the imagination. Once parked up, we entered reception and registered for the day and were given "Goody Bags" containing tees, pencils, stroke saver, water, bananas, choc bars and various other related items, a real bonus to me. Then, it was upstairs to the restaurant for breakfast, sausage & bacon muffins, (another first), tea & coffee; you could have as much as you fancied but I just stuck to the one, which was very unlike me. After a briefing, it was on the buggies to the practice range and a quick "WHACK" with my new clubs. The facilities here were superb, grass range with pyramids of balls to practice with, I couldn't fault it at all. A shotgun start off the 3rd tee commenced which was at the far end of the course, at this stage, I would just like to say this course is best suited for buggies with long gaps between some of the tees and a buggy path the whole way round, although we were allowed to venture on to the fairways even in the bad weather. Now, from our 1st hole to our last every tee box, fairway and green was of the highest quality, lovingly tended by the green staff and a credit to the club, no wonder it is a European Tour venue. On the times I did find the fairway, they were like playing off lush carpets, absolutely fantastic and the greens, so smooth and true, even in that wind, ( if you remember the scene from the film, "Caddy Shack", where the priest was playing the best golf of his life in a hurricane and finally gets struck down by lightning on the 18th, our game was definitely like that, although the lightning never arrived, Thank God!!) There were plenty of challenging holes with deep bunkers, lots of water and long grassy rough for the wayward shots but all in all, a great layout. After the round, we dried off and went back upstairs for the presentation and dinner, a lovely evening ensued with talks from the charities involved and from an ex welsh rugby international whose name escapes me and a wonderful 3 course meal. We left the venue at around 9pm and thought this was definitely the best course we had ever been to in Kent and, as good as The Belfry in Birmingham, which had been my No.1 for many years. To sum up, if you're looking for that special golf course and have a spare £100 or so floating about in your account, (although we only paid £67.50 for the whole golf day, I know, mad, isn't it), then go and play The London Golf Club, everything far exceeded our expectations!!!

The greens were excellent. Very slick as were the practice putting greens.
Free balls on the range was a nice touch. Shop and bar very welcoming too. Great views from the clubhouse. The only 2 gripes were the inadequate signage on the International course and no distance markers to help speed up the pace of play.

super course, but lots of hilly walking between greens and tees. and not many signs so got lost a bit.the clubhouse is beautiful and there are loads of practice facilities. would jump at the chance to play there again but i bet it would be very hard in the summer when the rough would be up and the green mega fast.

Where do I start ? I was lucky enough to be invited to a corporate day :) Thanks Mark :) We pulled up outside the Awesome club House, had our clubs taken from us and was told they would be waiting for us on our buggy :).After our Breakfast we got told that our pair we was playing with have pulled out so the Pro Shed will be taking there place, what a Bum :). First Tee we first needed to get the corporate bits out the way ( its a hard life :) )the announcer called Mark up and we was off, A Very good course, you must keep straight rough is rough was lucky to have had the pro with us so managed to get out well a few times :) Bunkers awesome greens fast but fair. Overall a very good day that I will remember for a long time Thanks Mark, The pro Did mention that they will be doing a few deals :) still just under the £100 thou maybe just dont tell the wife and go for it, you wont be disappointed.

Classy venue oozes quality, but penal rough awaits the rich and famous. The greeens are so well protected and par is an excellent score on any hole. Par 5s reachable in 2 off the yellows, but unless you make the green, you are looking at a 6 at least. Play sensibly and play well and it's a terrific day out if you have the cash.

Course is great even in winter club house very relaxed atmosphere.

Great experience

Played the international today as the Heritage is closed for a couple of weeks course was in excellent condition shame i wasn't the weather went from sunshine to wind to light rain but the greens were still like glass for this time of the year.
Food and staff onsite were excellent abit disappointed with the pro shop though.

First visit to the London Club and certainly enjoyed the round. the fairways were wide thought fairway bunkering did come into play on a number of holes so beware.
The greens were in excellent condition and the roll fast and true.

On our visit the driving range looked good but was closed, we could see no reason for this and for such a course very poor.

If you have played Charthills, East Sussex National or Dalehill (woosnam) then The London club is not different in looks or feel, where it is different is the greenfee!
We paid £65 for 18 holes in March for a friday game, this goes up to £75 (April) and £110 from May.
if you play monday-thursday in April this drops to £65 and for May £95.
And you are not playing the course used to host the european open.

It is certainly not worth this sort of money you will pay a lot less for Charthills or East Sussex and have the same standard of course