Golf Guide to Hampshire

Discovering some of Hampshires finest Golfing Destinations

Contents
4 / 7 - Old Thorns Manor Hotel, Golf & Country Club 10 / 12 - Shanklin & Sandown Golf Club 14 / 16 - Liphook Golf Club 18 / 21 - Stoneham Golf Club 23 / 25 - Tylney Park Golf Club 26 / 27 - North Hants Golf Club 28 / 30 - Hampshire & IOW Club Listings

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Old Thorns Manor Hotel, Golf & Country Estate

The Old Thorns Golf Club is one of the finest championship courses in Hampshire. Designed by Peter Alliss, the course is situated on 400 acres of Hampshire countryside. The course has an illustrious history having hosted the worlds leading golfers including Seve Ballesteros, Jack Nicklaus, Isao Aoki and Bill Rogers in 1982 for its official opening. The Old Thorns golf course presents a challenging test for all golfers, with mature tree lined fairways, ponds, small sloping greens and breathtaking views of the Hampshire and Sussex countryside. The course has been chosen to host the William Hunt Trilby Tour and the Disabled British Open in 2010-12. All this combined with breathtaking scenic views ensures that Old Thorns remains on the must play list for many travelling societies and golfers in the UK for 2012. There has never been a better time to visit Old Thorns so call 01428 724 555 for more information, or visit www.oldthorns.com

one of Englands finest resorts

Old Thorns is fast becoming known as one of the south of Englands finest resorts for golf, leisure and business. The hotel offers 86 luxury bedrooms, a relaxing health spa, state-of-the-art health club, fantastic cuisine and an outstanding golf course. Easily accessible from the A3, London to Portsmouth route, Old Thorns is less than 30 minutes from the M25. The new Old Thorns now also includes a Starbucks and sports bar, which has relaxation areas, and shows all major sporting events on Sky Sports and ESPN. The hotel also offers private dining and function rooms, which offer the perfect setting for any conference, special break or time out. There has never been a better time to visit Old Thorns so call 01428 724 555 for more information, or visit www.oldthorns.com

a brand new state-of-the-art conference centre

Old Thorns has recently developed a brand new state-of-the-art conference centre with six spacious, fully equipped conference rooms all with natural daylight. The esate can facilitate a small group of five and all the way up to 300 delegates at any given time. Old Thorns provides the ideal location for all types of meetings, offering everything the modern business demands, combined with the personal service you would expect from a four star resort, all in a relaxed environment to make your meeting both successful and enjoyable. The conference rooms surround a central reception with a lounge caf, ideal for refreshment breaks or a breakout area. There has never been a better time to visit Old Thorns so call 01428 724 555 for more information, or visit www.oldthorns.com

Contact Information
Old Thorns Manor Hotel, Golf & Country Estate
Griggs Green, Liphook, Hampshire GU30 7PE.

General Enquiries- 01428 724 555

www.oldthorns.com

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Shanklyn & Sandown Golf Club

A warm, friendly welcome awaits Visitors and Societies alike at Shanklin & Sandown Golf Club. We are committed to promoting a friendly atmosphere in our modern, well appointed, clubhouse and to providing quality and excellence on our unique golf course, where our aim is to present the perfect venue for the perfect, but challenging, round. Although not long at just over 6000 yards, the tight tree lined fairways and protected greens, set in a beautiful heathland setting, require good course management to enable you to return successful scores. We pride ourselves on providing golfers of all abilities, individual and uniquely challenging golf holes The course is maintained to a very high standard and our greens are regularly hand mowed, providing an excellent putting surface. There are fantastic views of the surrounding downs at every turn, providing a truly beautiful aesthetic backdrop to the course. The free draining heathland soil ensures it is playable throughout the year providing, without doubt, an outstanding place to play golf in any season.

County Championship Hosts

Besides playing the course, visitors can enjoy full use of the modern Clubhouse, the 19th hole, our fully catered dining facilities and our elevated balcony overlooking the par 3 9th hole. Visit our well stocked Pro Shop where we provide a wide range of golf clothing and equipment, combined with expert tuition by our golf team headed by our Resident Professional Peter Hammond. In 2012, we are proud to be hosting the Hampshire County Championships in June, the 11th time the Championships have been held at Shanklin & Sandown. Only two other Hampshire courses have hosted the Championships more often. We hold an annual Pro-Am, which will be held on Wednesday 13th June, which is always well supported by the top Professionals in Hampshire. Our Ladies Open will be on Tuesday 3rd July and also our Mixed Open on Sunday 29th July. For details and application forms for these events please visit our website www.ssgolfclub.com.

Contact Information
Shanklin & Sandown Golf Club
The Fairway Sandown, Isle of Wight

PO36 9PR

General Enquiries- 01983 403 217

ww.ssgolfclub.com

Liphook Golf Club

Liphook is a traditional golf club with one of the best courses in the country. Opened in 1923, the course was soon recognised by the R&A as an exemplary inland heathland course and is also an early example of Strategic Design for golf courses. This section provides information about the Course and Clubhouse. There is a brief History of Liphook Golf Club and a section on Bohunt Manor Golf Club which was founded in the same year as Liphook and shares the course and facilities. By todays standards Liphook is not a long course having both an SSS and Par of 70, measuring just 6295 yards from the Championship tees and 6188 yards from the medal tees. The course has five par 4 holes of over 400 yards and three par 5s. Its tight fairways, lined with an abundance of heather, gorse and trees, put a premium on accuracy but its biggest defence are its greens, true and fast with subtle breaks and borrows. They are among the best in southern England. With its undulating fairways, heather, gorse and trees the course is outstandingly beautiful. There is a profusion of rhododendrons in the spring. Well manicured throughout the year, the course retains its heathland character with fast-running fairways and greens

Liphook Golf Club

The Liphook course was designed at a turning point in the architecture of golf courses. The Company appointed Arthur Croome to lay out the course; in doing so it was opting for a supporter of a new philosophy the strategic as opposed to the penal school of design. A partner in the same design firm was Tom Simpson who became a member of Liphook and Master of the Green. Tom was responsible for a number of additions to the design of the course, carried out in the spirit of a strategic course. Subsequently, the design of the course has changed relatively little. In 1949 the order of the two halves was reversed to accommodate the New Clubhouse, built ten years later close to the original 10th hole. Club Committees have from time to time invited course architects to survey the course and minor alterations have been made to accommodate changes in golfing techniques and technologies.

Contact Information Liphook Golf Club

Wheatsheaf Enclosure Liphook Hants

GU30 7EH

General Enquiries- 01428 723 271

www.liphookgolfclub.com

Stoneham Golf Club

Laid out in a beautiful undulating piece of heathland on the Northern boundary of Southampton, Stoneham Golf Club has always presented a good challenge to all standards of golfers. Accurate positioning is more important than length meaning brain will always be rewarded more than brawn. Every hole is different with the front nine going out anti-clockwise before the back nine winds clockwise inside of it. The undulations on the course mean that you rarely get a flat lie & small greens mean that your short game will get a good test if your approach shots are a little wayward. The 100 climb up the 18th, which also plays in to the prevailing wind, means that the refreshments awaiting you in the Clubhouse are always very welcome.

Stoneham Golf Club

The challenge that Stoneham presents means that it has hosted a number of top amateur & professional events; the Brabazon twice as well as the inaugural Dunlop Masters which is now known as the British Masters. In September 2012 we will be hosting the finals of the English Champion Club, so 136 of the top amateurs in the country will be coming to test themselves over the course. This is in addition to our own Pro-Am in July when 150 amateurs & 50 professionals from the South East of England will be playing for a prize fund in excess of 10,000. Stoneham Golf Club is right up there with the very best in the county. A course for the technical minded golfer, the natural backdrops of trees and landscape can easily distract any who dare show a slight lapse of concentration to this wonderful 6000+ yard golfing heaven.

Contact Information
Stoneham Golf Club
Monks Wood Close Bassett Southampton SO16 3TT

General Enquiries- 02380 769 272

www.stonehamgolfclub.org.uk

Tylney Park Golf Club

The Rotherwick Course at Tylney Park is an example of the very best inland golf available in Britain. The course is set in 200 acres of Hampshire parkland which is registered by English Heritage as a protected park and garden. In 2003, a leading firm of golf architects was asked to re-design the golf course in such a way that would do justice to a site which has long been felt could unlock more potential as one of the finest parkland settings in the south of England. Situated next to Tylney Hall Hotel, and close to Basingstoke and Farnham, the golf course gives players of all ability a great golf experience. Whether you are looking for membership, somewhere to bring a society or just a great days golf, Tylney Park Golf Club is the place to come.

Tylney Park Golf Club

The golf course was completely overhauled in 2004 and bears little resemblance to its former status. Every hole has been changed, extended and given a new lease of life. At over 7,000 yards from its back tees it offers a great test of golf and has hosted a number of county events. The mature trees and large undulating greens are the main features of the course ensuring an attractive and challenging test. Just being on the putting surface is not sufficient to ensure a good score. The course offers 5 tee positions to enable golfers of all standards to enjoy their day. Spread over 200 acres of beautiful Hampshire countryside there are very few places closer to London that you can get a true feeling of being away from anything man-made. This is a course that you will want to come back to play again and again.

Contact Information
Tylney Park Golf Club
RG27 9AY
Rotherwick Hook Hampshire

General Enquiries- 01256 762 079

www.tylneypark.co.uk

North Hants Golf Club

Home since 1957 of the famous Hampshire Hog and a recent Open qualifying venue, North Hants is one of Hampshires outstanding courses with a reputation of having some of the finest and fastest greens in the South of England. Located less than 5 minutes from the M3 on the Surrey/Hampshire border, it is a true heathland gem where visitors always receive a warm welcome. As a course it stands up to the rigorous comparison with some of its perhaps more famous neighbours in Surrey and Hampshire. A James Braid layout that was improved by the legendary Harry Colt in 1913, the course is a superb example of a mature heathland layout with a delightful mix of heather and tall trees bordering each impressively manicured fairway. The modern welcoming clubhouse which serves great food ensures that golfers, members and guests fully enjoy their visit. Above all North Hants is a friendly, informal, non-stuffy environment that belies its 108 years of existence, a great place in which to enjoy your days golf.

Contact Information
North Hants Golf Club
Minley Road Fleet, Hampshire

GU51 1RF

General Enquiries- 01252 616 443

www.northhantsgolf.co.uk

Hampshire Club Listings

Alresford Alton (The) Ampfield Golf & Country Club Andover Army Barton on Sea Basingstoke Bishopswood Blackmoor Blacknest Bohunt Manor Botley Park Hotel G&CC Bramshaw Bramshott Hill Brokenhurst Manor Burley (The) Cams Hall Estate Chilworth Corhampton County (The) Dummer Dunwood Manor 01962-733746 01420-82042 01794-368480 01264-358040 01252-33727 01425-615308 01256-65990 0118-9820312 01420-472775 01420-22888 01489-7789771 02380-813433 02380-845596 01590-623332 01425-402431 01329-827222 02380-733166 01489-877279 02380-471116 01256 397888 01794-340549 East Horton Fairthorne Manor Fleetlands Four Marks Furzeley Gosport & Stokes Bay The Hampshire Hartley Wintney Hayling Hockley Leckford Lee-on-the-Solent Liphook Marriott Meon Valley New Forest North Hant Oak Park Old Thorns Golf & Hotel The Park Paultons Golf Centre Petersfield Portsmouth 02392-602111 01489-784231 02392-544492 01420-587214 02392-231180 02392-527941 01264-357555 01252-844211 02392-463712 01962-713165 01264-810320 02392-550207 01428-723785 01329-833455 02380-282752 01252-616443 01252-850880 01428-724555 01962-779945 02380-813992 01730-895165 02392-201827

Hampshire Club Listings

Quindell Romsey Rowlands Castle Royal Winchester Sandford Springs Sherfield Oaks Somerley Park Southampton Southsea Southwick Park Southwood South Winchester Stoneham Swanmore Test Valley Tournerbury Tylney Park Waterlooville Walhampton Wellow Weybrook Park Wickham Park Worldham Golf Club 01329 844441 02380-734637 02392-412784 01962-852462 01635-296800 01256-884100 01425-461496 02380-529293 02392-668667 02392-380131 01252-548700 01962-877800 02380-768151 01329-835300 01256-771220 02392-462266 01256-762079 02392-263388 01590-689631 01794-322872 01256-320347 01329-833342 01420-543151

The Hampshire County Golf Union

County Office, Liphook Golf Club, Liphook. GU30 7EH. Tel - 01428 725580

Hampshire Golf Partnership

County Office, Liphook Golf Club, Liphook, Hampshire, GU30 7EH Tel - 01428 725580

Isle Of Wight & Channel Island Club Listings

Cowes Freshwater Bay Newport Osborne Ryde Shanklin & Sandown Ventnor Westridg

ISLE of WIGHT

01983-292303 01983-752955 02392-525076 01983-295421 01983-614809 01983-403217 01983-853326 01983-613131

Alderney Guernsey Juniors La Moye LAncresse La Grande Mare Les Mielles Les Ormes Royal Guernsey Royal Jersey St Clements

CHANNEL ISLANDS

01481-822835 01481-246523 01534-743401 01481-247408 01481-255313 01534-722661 01534-44464 01481-246523 01534-854416 01534-721938

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Golf Guide to Hampshire 2012

Discovering some of Hampshires finest Golfing Destinations
A Special Thanks to Old Thorns Manor Hotel, Golf & Country Club Shanklin & Sandown Golf Club Liphook Golf Club Stoneham Golf Club Tylney Park Golf Club & North Hants Golf Club

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