The Golf Club

“One of the UK’s finest downland courses”

Banstead Downs Golf Club is a members club offering year round golf for players of all ages and standards on one of the UK’s finest downland courses.

The course opened in 1890, originally a 9 hole course designed by Willie Dunn Jnr and was named Sutton Ladies Golf Club at that time. In 1905 the club entrusted the great J H Taylor to design an 18 hole men's course alongside the ladies course and Banstead Downs was born. In the late 1920's another of the Great Triumvirate, James Braid, was asked to redesign the course using both sides of the common and used the natural downland terrain to create one of his golfing masterpieces. More recently, In 2010, the course was lenghtened by changing the first to a long par 5 and the tricky 16th hole was extended from a par 3 to a short tactical par 4 thanks to the expert skills of architects Mackenzie Ebert. The course is now a 6,581 yard par 71 from the championship tees and has a rating of 72.4 (132 slope). Its chalky base ensures fantastic drainage, allowing it to remain open when many courses are flooded. Banstead Downs also provides a fair test of golf for all standards of golfers due to it's multiple teeing areas.