Welcome to the Society of Ashdown Golfers
We’re proud to be a warm and welcoming club where camaraderie and competition go hand in hand. With around 250 members, our club strikes the perfect balance—large enough to make every competition engaging, yet small enough to ensure prime tee times are easily accessible throughout the year. Whether you’re here for the social scene, competitive play, or simply the love of the game, you’ll find a home with the Ashdown Golfers.
Our course, whilst a touch under 6,000 yards at 5,537 yards, has consistently been voted one of the best in the country in its category (the number one course under 6,000 yards by Golf World in 2013).
Our course offers a genuine test of golf with its tight fairways, undulating greens, and well-protected pin positions. These elements demand both strategy and skill, making every round a new challenge.
Welcome to the Society of Ashdown Golfers
Very few golf clubs boast two 18-hole courses, both over 100 years old, especially those that differ as much as the West Course and the Old Course at Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club.
The Old Course is still very much a heathland course, the West snakes its way through the trees at the heart of the Ashdown Forest which spreads for over 20 square miles in this most beautiful part of Sussex.
The West was once the longest Ladies Golf Club in England. It was originally founded as the Ashdown Forest & Tunbridge Wells Ladies Golf Club in 1889, barely six months after the formation of the main club and was only the second of its type to be formed in Great Britain, after Sunningdale Ladies.
In 1932 the course was lengthened to 18 holes, the same year that the ladies’ Club was awarded Royal status in its own right.
Whereas banks of heather, gorse and thick rough help defend the Old Course in the absence of bunkers, the West is an altogether tighter challenge with narrow tree lined fairways and small, often elevated greens with some fiendish run-offs.
