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    Best golf courses: Birmingham

    Birmingham: the table below provides brief details about the top golf courses in and around this city. Each golf club has been visited and/or researched by Where2Golf. Click on the course name below to discover more. The course ratings below range from 5 highest, to 2 lowest. They attempt to provide an indication of the golfing experience you might expect at the course (based on its design, condition and surroundings). Hover your cursor above the Rating Key below for the rating definitions.

    Rating key

    5-PLUS: In the world’s elite - has few peers; one of our top-rated 5s! 5-star: Fabulous – courses don’t get much better than this. 4-PLUS: Must play course - excellent standard; worthy of 4½ stars. 4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit. 3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars. 3-star: Good course – an enjoyable test for your game. 2-star: Reasonably okay course - if better courses not available. Unrated: Well regarded course not yet visited by the Where2Golf team. Private: A course for members and their invited guests only. Stay & Play Golf Resorts: Golf Clubs and resorts with onsite accommodation

    Course name

    Rating

    Visitors?

    Nearest city

    Designer

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    Sandwell Park
    3-star: Good course – an enjoyable test for your game.
    Weekdays only
    Birmingham
    Colt, Harry

    Visitors?

    Weekdays only

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Harry Colt
    Trentham
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Not Saturdays
    Birmingham
    Colt, Harry

    Visitors?

    Not Saturdays

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Current design by English course architect Harry Colt.
    Walsall
    3-star: Good course – an enjoyable test for your game.
    Weekdays only
    Birmingham
    MacKenzie, Dr Alister

    Visitors?

    Weekdays only

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Current course designed by Dr Alister MacKenzie (1930).
    Warwickshire, The
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Litten, Karl

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Karl Litten designed both the Earls and Kings courses at The Warwickshire.
    Welcombe, The
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    McAuley, Tom

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Tom McAuley
    Whittington Heath
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Weekdays only
    Birmingham
    Colt, Harry

    Visitors?

    Weekdays only

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Current design by English course architect Harry Colt (1927).
    Stratford-on-Avon
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Weekdays only
    Birmingham
    Taylor & Hawtree

    Visitors?

    Weekdays only

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Course designed by J.H. Taylor and Fred Hawtree (1924), coincident with Club's move to this location.

    Sutton Coldfield
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    MacKenzie, Dr Alister

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Dr Alister MacKenzie

    Worcestershire, The
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    MacKenzie & Hawtree

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Original design at this location by Dr Alister MacKenzie (1927); nine additional holes, making up for nine holes lost to housing, designed by Fred Hawtree of Hawtree & Co. (1970s).

    Kington
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Hutchison, Cecil K.

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Major Cecil K. Hutchison.

    Belfry, The (Brabazon)
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Alliss & Thomas

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Peter Alliss & Dave Thomas

    Belfry, The (PGA Natl)
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Thomas, Dave

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Dave Thomas

    Astbury, The
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Downing, K.K.

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Kenneth "K.K." Downing Jr (owner and designer).
    Beau Desert
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Wkends restrictd
    Birmingham
    Fowler, Herbert

    Visitors?

    Wkends restrictd

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Herbert Fowler

    Blackwell
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Fowler & Simpson

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Current layout designed by Herbert Fowler & Tom Simpson (1923).

    Copt Heath
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Wkends restrictd
    Birmingham
    Vardon and Colt

    Visitors?

    Wkends restrictd

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Original 18-hole course laid out by Harry Vardon (1907). Improvements made by Harry Colt (1912).
    Coventry GC
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Weekdays only
    Birmingham
    Vardon, Tom

    Visitors?

    Weekdays only

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Tom Vardon designed the current layout (1911), with bunkers marked out by his brother Harry Vardon.
    Edgbaston
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Colt, Harry

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Harry Colt designed the present layout in 1935 at the age of 76.
    Enville
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Unknown

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Designers unknown. Original 9-hole course (1935), extended to 18-holes (1938). Third nine added (1973) and a fourth (1983), at which time the 36-holes were organised into two 18-hole layouts, the Highgate and the Lodge courses.
    Forest of Arden
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Steel, Donald

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Donald Steel

    Fulford Heath
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Braid, James

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    James Braid

    Handsworth
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Not Saturdays
    Birmingham
    Colt, Harry

    Visitors?

    Not Saturdays

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Harry Colt
    Harborne
    3-PLUS: Good course - several memorable features; worthy of 3½ stars.
    Weekdays only
    Birmingham
    Colt, Harry

    Visitors?

    Weekdays only

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Current course designed by English course architect Harry Colt (1924).
    Little Aston
    4-star: Above average course - well worth a visit.
    Not Saturdays
    Birmingham
    Vardon, Harry

    Visitors?

    Not Saturdays

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Laid out by Harry Vardon (1908), with subsequent bunkering improvements by Harry Colt shortly afterwards.

    Moseley
    3-star: Good course – an enjoyable test for your game.
    Visitors welcome
    Birmingham
    Colt, Harry

    Visitors?

    Visitors welcome

    Nearest city

    Birmingham

    Designer

    Current course designed by English architect Harry Colt (1920s).

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