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Swinley Forest Golf Club Key Information
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| Address | Coronation Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 9LE |
| Phone | 01344 620197 |
| Website | swinleyfgc.co.uk (opens in new tab) |
| office@swinleyfgc.co.uk | |
| GFs | On application |
| Visitor Times | Weekdays only, check with club for details |
| Par | Men 69, Women 70 |
| Slope | Not Known |
| Opened | 1909 |
| Architect | Harry Colt |
Golf Monthly Verdict
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Swinley Forest serves up a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining journey forwards through the heather, but also backwards in time. This applies both on and off the course where there is a more sophisticated and genteel atmosphere of days gone by. Subtle changes have kept this engaging course on the top of its game, and a day at Swinley is always a treat.
Reasons To Play Swinley Forest
– A beautiful and endlessly interesting design where strategy is way more important than brute force
– Play the design that Harry Colt described as his ‘least bad course’!
– A journey back in time to the Golden Age of golf course design
Rankings
UK & Ireland Top 100 Golf Courses 2023/24 – 35
Arguably as uncommercial and self-reliant as any club in the Top 100, Swinley Forest Golf Club is very much one of a kind. It’s charming and timeless course was designed by the legendary Harry Colt, and is one of the very best inland courses in the UK.
Swinley Forest has no need for a captain and you won’t be able to look up your handicap for the round on the England Golf app – this is very much its own club. And as private as it is, its course is much more in the public eye and appears in various world lists. Happily, it is also one that lives up to the highest expectations. If you were asked to close your eyes and think of what an archetypal, beautiful, traditional, pine-clad golf course looks like… this would be it. This is one of Harry Colt’s greatest and most enduring legacies. One where, aside from the addition of a new back tee here and the odd tweak there, it was so perfectly designed in the first place and sits in such a wonderful location, that little has changed or needed to.
From the moment you arrive, the whole atmosphere at Swinley Forest makes you genuinely feel as though you are stepping back in time. Everywhere, subtlety and understatement is key. Out on the course, then rather than individual standout holes, there is a consistency and great strength in depth. If you had to single out just one highlight, it…
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