Surrey Downs Golf Club

Very nice course, lots of tees where you can't see the green. Greens in very good condition with lots of undulations. Would happily play here again

Surrey Downs is an enjoyable challenge; the SSS off the white tees is par 71. The white card is about 500 yards longer than from the yellow tees. The course and greens are in great shape despite the recent poor weather. Good scoring is very possible but so are high scores. There are excellent practice facilities and the catering is excellent qualify and vfm.

Young course runs with the terrain making a number of blind drives round the hill on the front 9. Hit above the marker post if you're long or you'll lose it in the rough. Play short and you could score well.
The tricky part is the greens - large, fast and curvaceous. Definitely worth getting the pace sorted out early on.
A warm welcome awaits in the modern clubhouse with good facilities. A club geared to more informality than some of its more traditional neighbours.

I played Surrey Downs towards the end of autumn and really enjoyed my trip there. From the yellows the course isn't as tricky as I thought it might have been, certainly not as tricky as the course website suggests, although I imagine that with the longer rough it would be a tougher prospect. Fortunately, when I played there it looked like the rough had recently been cut back for the winter.

I enjoyed the par 5 5th hole, which was very scenic with the autumn foliage from the trees along the left hand side of the fairway. That said, there are a number of wonderful viewpoints from various holes on the course. It does get very exposed on windy days though.

Where the course let itself down was the condition of the greens, which had recently been spiked, and the bunkers which seemed to have builders sand in them.

The clubhouse was very welcoming, and the bar had a decent selection of food to choose from.

I wouldn't have wanted to pay full price for playing here, but the deal we got made it a bargain.