Tilgate Forest Golf Club

Great layout, good facilities. When visited lots of work on greens, bunkers, fairways, give it 4-6 weeks, it will be great value. The most trees I have seen on a golf course, lovely to play and will play this again a few times each year, on my YES list.

New club house and that looks really nice but it goes down hill from there.
1) Tee boxes: Now that's the first thing us golfers use and all the tee boxes were either poorly kept uneven,bare of grass and generally poor.
2) Bunkers: Although I did not go in many the ones I did go in were poor,no sand or no rakes.
3) Greens: very patchy on all greens, looked poorly maintained and they did not run true at all. 1 putt from my playing partner got to the hole and shot off 90 degrees!!!
4)They have obviously been working on the woods around the course. Plenty of tree`s were cut down and were left in there place. So if going into the woods there was no chance of finding your ball and when you did it was impossible to play. We then found out from the guy on the till AFTER the game that there was a local rule saying you could get a free drop. So nice of them to tell us.
Would I go back: NO.

A Pay & Play course appertaining to the Glendale group, but was part of the vast Tilgate Estate in the High Weald of Sussex. Very picturesque & surrounded by Tilgate country park & conservation area. You will see lots of fitness fanatics on a weekend & walkers with dogs or without.

Very tight tree lined course indeed, 15 dog legs, left/right , well guarded greens, the shaded ones still had partial frost.

Today Sat 24 Jan 2015, the course was empty and we realised why: a little wet in places. The first 9 fairways were fine, draining well, but as you play the last 9 you encounter water. The Tee boxes were quite muddy too, so were the paths to the next hole but @ £16 for a round on a sunny winter day, a lovely 3-balls, we were not complaining. I must thanks Brian H. for helping me with my new super GPS which works in yards & METRES too!!!!!!!

There is lateral water on some holes, some ditches across others, and 1 pond at the final hole, but nothing too daunting.

Tilgate Forest reminds me of a little bit of Gatton Manor, Foxhills, Pine Ridge & Camberley Heath.

The 16th & 17th holes are the jewels of this course as follows:

16th, short Par 4, sharp dog leg right, blind tee shot, sloping fairway uphill, large bunker at the turn & others very strategically placed, a raised tiered green protected on the left.

The 17th, long Par 5, is one of the few straight holes on the course apart from the 4 Par 3s. It is long, down & up, a large ditch across that needs to come into the equation as to laying up or not, some trees protruding onto the fairway & only 2 bunkers in appropriate places.

The Clubhouse is very new, modern, light and airy. Frienddy staff all around. It was extremely busy in the Café as all the runner/walkers had come in for a bite/drink.

Pro shop adequately furnished & gave a nice welcome.

The Car park is fairly large. The access to Tilgate Forest GC is through a housing estate, the lane/road is more or less single, with passing places and very busy as it leads to the Country Park as well.

A lovely course, challenging layout but not one for winter play. Cannot wait to return in the Spring or Summer. Thank you to our "Naked Golfer" Steve for posting this bargain.




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You need to be straight off the tee. Plenty of trouble left and right. true test of golf.