Luton Hoo

The layout was laid out in the early decade of the millennium, by Mike Smith of Mass Designs The 18-hole layout at Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa was designed by Mike Smith of Mass Designs. Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa is primarily within an official Grade 1 listed Capability Brown designed park that meant that earth movement was permitted only for greens, tees and tees. Sand bunkers were not permitted to be constructed.

The course covers approximately 175 acres, the course is 7,100 yards from back tees. There are holes designed as nines that return and the par at 72 (out in 36, then returning to 37). The water is through tiny ponds set between holes on the northern side of the course.

Highlights include the left-hand doglegging 3rd par 4 (with the ponds the fairway on either side) and the par eighteenth (rated by stroke index 2; it begins with a tee shot that crosses water) as well as the par eleventh par (where the green lies behind a different lake) as well as the final one of par threes is the 201-yard 15th, which is the farthest away from the Clubhouse.

In the last quarter of 2022, Estate the owners (the Arora Group) announced an ambitious plan to hold the Ryder Cup in 2031 or 2035. Keep an eye on this...