Courtesy of the club/James Lovett
Courtesy of the club/James Lovett
Courtesy of the club/James Lovett
Courtesy of the club/James Lovett
Courtesy of the club/James Lovett
Courtesy of the club/James Lovett
Worplesdon Golf Club
Brookwood, Surrey, England
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Worplesdon Golf Club
Heath House Rd
Brookwood, Surrey GU22 0RA
England
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Overview
Worplesdon Golf Club is a gem from JF Abercromby, whose work came pre-World War I often in collaboration with Tom Simpson or Herbert Fowler. Here Abercromby worked with Willie Park Jr. in their design that opened in 1908 in the heathlands of Surrey just a few minutes from iconic neighbors Woking and West Hill Golf Club. Tim Lobb renovated the course in 2021, focusing on the restoration of bunker faces with heathland and native plants, as well as an overall addition to the natural areas that border the fairways. Truly a ball-striker’s course, Worplesdon offers no respite off the tee with natives and towering trees protecting every fairway. This is most evident on the par-5 11th—featured in George Peper’s 500 Greatest Golf Holes—with heathland up the right and a fairway pitched toward the thick overhanging trees up the left. The back nine is also home to the famous par-3 13th played to a small green protected by an intimidating horseshoe-shaped bunker. While the back nine features two of the more famous holes, the front nine plays as the harder of the two, routed over more challenging terrain where there is rarely a flat lie.
