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Northolt, Greater London UB5 6RB
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Adam BakerThe Course:
18 holes. Inland links-style. Undulating terrain - a few slopes to climb.
Surroundings:
Rural countryside, woodland, rifle range, A40 London-Oxford road, and West London Golf Centre.
Designer:
Tom Mackenzie & Martin Ebert, with original routing conceived by Seve Ballesteros.
Adjacent to the course is the West London Golf Centre (nine-hole course, driving range, and Dinosaur mini-golf), also owned by the Bridgedown Group.
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1.5 mi W of Northolt / 14 mi NW of central London.
The Inspiration Club introduces a new arrival on the golfing scene in West London. Crafted by the prolific design team of Tom Mackenzie & Martin Ebert, this modern inland links-style course revels in its linksy openness. An "inner" front-nine loop leads onto the "outer" back-nine, both serving-up one excellently crafted hole after another.
In true links fashion, there are plenty of eye-catching, revetted-style, silver-sanded bunkers in play. They define the rolling good-width fairways and lend stout defence around the greens. In time, some holes will benefit from greater definition, thanks to a modest scattering of newly-planted trees.
There's more variety on the back-nine, something signalled by the short, drivable, risk-reward par-4 10th. The "no-two-holes-the-same" theme continues at the par-5 11th, which gently climbs to an attractively bunker-defended elevated green. Ever-undulating, the layout contains a pleasant mix of straightaway and doglegging holes ... sharply doglegging at the par-4 16th.
Here at The Inspiration you'll find dramatically contoured USGA-specification greens ... some large, some very large. The 60-yard green at the long par-4 17th is surely a candidate for the longest putting surface in West London. Often slightly elevated, the excellent greens are defended by slick run-off areas and testing mounding.
Beyond the course lies an eclectic mix of rural countryside, the busy A40 Western Avenue road, a rifle range and the neighbouring West London Golf Centre. Most of the time you look across to the RAF Northolt airfield, with a pleasant view over Harrow-on-the-Hill coming at the highest part of the course ... at the par-5 18th. Despite it's busy West London location, the course itself is generally quieter and more natural than you'd guess. Well worth a visit!
Visitors welcome on weekdays and weekends.
Must book in advance.
Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc. [Last updated: 2024].
Players generally walk this course.
Excellent
The Inspiration is one of the Bridgedown Group portfolio of golf courses in north and west London, which includes: The West London Family Golf Centre (9-hole course, range and academy), and 18-hole courses at The Shire (2007), The Inspiration Club (2024), and The Legacy Club (2027). The Bridgedown Golf Group is owned by the Menai-Davis family.
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