Beaconsfield Golf Club

Harry Colt, perhaps the best golf architect of all time, designed the course at Beaconsfield Golf Club and the clubhouse is architecturally special too.

Bernard Darwin described Beaconsfield in The Golf Courses of Great Britain as follows; “good park golf with beautiful trees and greens, and some holes of a decidedly precipitous and exciting nature.”

Writing in The Good Golf Guide, Peter Alliss commented as follows: “[Beaconsfield] was designed by Harry Colt in 1924 and bears most of that very busy architect’s trademarks, such as his use of the ravine on the 6th fairway. Here you have a choice of whether to lay up or go for the carry. The 4th is a good doglegged par 5. The green has a well-guarded entrance, so you must be bold and accurate with either a long second or a little pitch for your third.

A ravine comes into play again on the 10th, a dogleg to the left. On the 17th your mind is almost made up for you; it is a dogleg right par 5, where your shot to the green has to elude a large and well-bunkered pit. Probably best to play short and pitch over.”

Beaconsfield hosted three editions of the Girls Amateur between 1949 and 1961 and the club was also where Luke Donald learned to play the game, becoming club champion whilst still a junior member.