West Byfleet Golf Club

Sheerwater Road,

West Byfleet, nr Woking, Surrey KT14 6AA

  • Office

    +44 (0)1932 343 433
  • Pro shop

    +44 (0)1932 343 433
  • Golf pro

    Jon Field (PGA, Golf Professional).

About the course

  • The Course:

    18 holes. Wooded parkland Relatively flat terrain - easy to walk.

  • Surroundings:

    Woodland, residential and railway.

  • Designer:

    Original layout (called Bleakdown GC) by Cuthbert Butchart (1906). Significant redesign by John Frederick "Aber" Abercromby (1922). Subsequent minor changes by Arthur Croome, James Braid and John Morrison. Recent renovation by Tom Mackenzie & Martin Ebert (2022).

Back
tees
Club
tees
Front
tees
Yards
6532
5932
5647
Par
70
70
72
SSS or slope
71.9
73.0

Location

Latitude:

51.335559

Longitude:

-0.512465

How to get there:

o.5 mi W of West Byfleet / 31 miles SW of central London.

West Byfleet Golf Club

Unrated: Well regarded course not yet visited by the Where2Golf team.

Est. 1922

West Byfleet Golf Club: just a few miles from Surrey's famed three W's (the golf clubs of Woking, Worplesdon and West Hill), you'll find a fourth "W". Here at West Byfleet you'll find a very enjoyable and relatively flat John Abercromby design. Located alongside the London-Portsmouth railway line, the course sits on a sandy-soil base, ensuring good drainage throughout the year.

This easy-walking course, with nearly all the tees close to the previous green, has recently been renovated by the team of Mackenzie & Ebert, ensuring the tree-lined fairways and stylish bunkering attractively steers you round the course.

The greens here are deftly shaped, giving fast-running surfaces with slopes and borrows that call for a variety of approach shots and skill with the "short stick". The course supports much wildlife, not least green woodpeckers, the emblem of the Club.

Pick of the holes: the signature hole is the slightly downhill, over water par-3 13th, a short but testing hole.

List of courses: Surrey / Berks heathland

Visitors

Who can play and when?

Visitors welcome on weekdays (Mon - Thur); not Fridays or weekends.

Must book in advance.

Green fees

Visitor fee, 18-holes in high season (April thru' Oct): Mon-Thur £105.

Contact club for full details, discounts, packages, etc. [Last updated: 2024].

Other information

Players generally walk this course. Golf carts available for hire (if booked in advance).

Practice facilities

Good

Did you know?

West Byfleet Golf Club was formed in 1922 by residents local to the area. The course they acquired had already been in existence since 1906, and was known as Bleakdown Golf Club. With the acquisition, the name was changed to West Byfleet Golf Club, and celebrated golf course architect John Abercromby was commissioned to redesign the layout.

The land on which the golf course was built was owned by Hugh Fortescue Locke King (1848-1926), whose other extensive holdings included the famous "Brooklands" race track ... the world's first banked motor racing circuit.

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