Leatherhead Golf Club

Course was very dry, good interesting course to play, with lots of doglegs and trees. Would have welcomed the half way house being open on the hottest day of the year, and couldn't quite understand why it wasn't. All in all a good afternoon's golf though and we will definitely be back.

This is the kind of course you would want to play more than once. At £35 it isn’t the cheapest but it is worth it. Even though the recent weather has made it tough to maintain any golf course, this one is in pretty good shape. And it’s interesting to play. Try it out.

A mature parkland course, well over 100 years old, well cared for, offering a great variety in all aspects: every hole has its cachet, the 2nd half is surprisingly very different from the 1st.

Not overly long but challenging for all levels, the Par 3s are all longer than usual and some Par 4s quite short !!!

Ditches and water hazards come into play. Lots of tall mature pine & others trees. Some oak trees seem to stand alone in the middle of some fairly wide fairways.

The fairways are in excellent condition, so are the bunkers with plenty of soft sand, the greens although recently spiked are superb too, with subtle ondulations & are well protected.

Some very sharp & tight doglegs where a bell has to be rung for one's safety.

Some favourite holes :

11th, (short Par 4) this is where the change of landscape starts, )with raised green, OOB on both sides. A private road amongst the Packersham Estate takes you to the 12th hole, also a favourite, with a raised Tee and an uphill green with numerous bunkers guarding it.

The 15th, (long Par 3) and the 16th (Par 5) are worth a mention as the Tee boxes are parallel, one has to walk back to the tee box where a very, very narrow fairway presents itself with lots of trees on either side.

Some stunning properties are dotted around the course make you dream, some with swimming pools, some with tree houses nearly as big as my own house !!!! Gardens bigger than football pitches!!!!

Half way hut at the 8th with a little terrace and nice garden furniture where one can enjoy a well earned & delicious bacon roll + cup of tea ordered previously through a "talkie-walkie" attached to a tree by the 7th Tee box.

Large open driving range and also 2 nets. A Pitching/chipping area. A splendid putting green by the Clubhouse, in between the 1st tee and the 18th green.

Friendly Proshop with all that is needed for your golf. A small selection of clothing for Men & Women.

Stunning Ladies room with shiny marble floor & tiles, very chic sanitary ware & Dyson blades hand driers. Ladies changing room is large and chic too, with huge walk-in showers.

Pleasant, light Clubhouse overlooking practice green. An glowing open fire add to the Christmas feel so does the sparking Xmas tree.

Friendly bar staff. Members seem happy & friendly too.

Large well laid out Car Park.

Leatherhead Golf Club is within easy access of the M25 J9 (I think).

The design is clever, it will keep you interested & will surprise you too. Not sure who the Architect is.

A very enjoyable place to play golf where Visitors are made to feel welcome. Will return and hope many TSGers will try the course, if they have not done so already.


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Being my closest club I do play this a fair bit and I really enjoy it.

The club house offers everything you could want without being flash. Staff are friendly and helpful. Practise facilities are all there. I think the putting green is harder than normal which is great for practise. Also a small warm up net which I haven't seen that often. The range is on grass, always good.

I love this course and enjoy every hole but today it was a bit hard going as very soggy in more places than not. They did shut it over the Christmas period because of the weather so I appreciate they can't be closed forever.

Although today wasn't my best round ever here I can only improve by playing in conditions that make it harder so no real complaints but this may go down as a 9 month a year course.

The halfway hut was closed today which was a shame as I enjoy a coffee and a sit down for 5 and watching players on the 8th green putting and 9th teeing off.

If not played give it a go.

Played here 3 years ago so time to revisit.
Course is not long but is tight in places - have to think about correct club to hit rather than always smashing driver! Good layout with some dogleg holes. All par 3 are long.
£38 green fee for a Saturday would have been ok if not for the renovation work being done on a number of holes.
Will be great when finished.
Club house nice and friendly staff.
Would I go back - yes once course has been updated.

Absolutely awesome well worth every penny, very challenging even though fairways are wide, the only absolute let down is when its damp its muddy very muddy walking to each tee and walking to the fairways on alot of the holes.

I would play there all the time though !

Growing up as a kid, Leatherhead always had a reputation of being expensive to me, its taken me 32 years to play here and now i can say i have,
Over the last 5 months they have reconstructed all the tees on the back nine which are now in use,
Anyway booked a teetime through teeofftimes.co.uk for 14.00 and all went smooth, got to the pro shop to check in at 13.20 and was told we can go out whenever we were ready. Now to play before 14.00 was double the price so a result that we could still go out despite paying half the price to go out after 14.00(friendly pro shop).

OK pros - some really good holes, 3rd, 5th, 11th, 12th 13th, 14th(my fav) 15th and 17th, nice halfway hut, good tee boxes back 9, great facilities.

cons - Tee boxes on the front 9 need reconstructing, greens not in great condition, no short par 3's, some of the fairways very hard(could imagine gets boggy in the winter)

I have already penned in my diary my next visit and if they could sort out the tee boxes on the front nine this would be would be a very very tidy course.