Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club

The course was designed by A. T. Scott in 1891, little has been changed. It is a course without bunkers, but the hazards of heather, narrow fairways, hollows and streams make up for it. It is a Open Championship Regional Qualifying venue, and has been said to be one of the most natural courses in the world. All that was done in the design was to level off tee and green sites and establish the fairways. Other than the wooden planks propping up a stream bank in front of the second green, the entire course is natural. The difficulty of the course comes from the sloping land, the heather, the gorse, a stream, and trees to a much lesser degree. The variety of uphill, downhill, and sidehill lies provides awkward lies, and numerous tee shots are intimidating as they must clear bracken patches to reach the fairway. Aside from the challenges, the setting provide great views around the upper part of the course out across the Sussex countryside, and is maybe an hour south of London, England.