St George’s Hill – Golf Course Review

Location: Weybridge, Surrey
Played: May 2026
Course Type: Heathland
Key Words: Hill | Colt | Elevation

Golfer’s Tips

The driving range is a short drive away from the main car park and clubhouse facilities, so do give yourself plenty of time if hitting a few into a net is not going to cut it.
The majority of the green complexes at SGH run from back to front, with significant inclines up to the green, so taking enough club is imperative as there is often little danger at the back.

Signature Holes

4th – a beautiful short par four that is open enough to present a genuine option to take it on, but with enough defence to make you think twice.
8th – a wonderful looking (yet daunting) par three played across a valley, with bunkers littered across the incline short prior to a tabletop green complete with a sharp drop off on the right.

Review:

St George’s Hill is a phenomenal course – a superb collection of varied and visually stunning holes perfectly mapped to the rolling terrain.

The clue is indeed in the name – the course is laid out across incredibly undulating land, playing down and away from the wonderfully regal red brick Clubhouse perched on top of the hill, and the Harry Colt design makes excellent use of the natural contours and elevation, with strategically placed bunkers adding to the fantastic visuals.

The typical routing is the red then blue nines, and starts with a shorter par four that displays the classic SGH characteristics of a reasonably wide fairway, playing down from a pristine raised tee box, prior to an approach played back up the next hill to an undulating green well guarded by heather-lined Colt bunkers.

Two is a longer downhill par four, and then three is the first of some truly excellent par threes played along the back perimeter of the land bordering millionaire’s houses on the estate. Number four then provides a superb risk-reward choice – 270 yards playing slightly downhill, with adequate room to miss left and right, but with huge bunkers lining the front of the incline to the green.

Colt’s clever design can make tee shots, mostly played down from raised tees, look somewhat daunting, but St George’s Hill is in fact very much playable and a very fair test. Fairways are generous, once reached, and the playing surfaces are perfect and almost demand well struck shots from them.

The middle section of the red-blue loop is so strong – the eighth is a par three reminiscent of the second at Woking, played across a valley to a domed green with a smattering of bunkers short, prior to the ninth which is a fine driving hole playing down, around and then up to a testing sloped green in front of the clubhouse.

The tenth is then an excellent longer par four, playing back down from the clubhouse and starter hut, which turns left prior to a slightly obstructed approach to a green that sits aside a bank of heather. Continuing the procession of fine holes is then the tricky little eleventh, which is only a wedge but to a small green with a perilous drop off right.

After the testing long par three fourteenth, complete with carry over a pond to a tiered green, and the par five fifteenth, which is an excellent longer hole with an undulating fairway that is dotted with bunkers, the finish is a hat-trick of par fours of differing lengths and direction.

Upon the approach to the shorter eighteenth you again revisit surely one of the most impressive clubhouses in the country – the perfect time to take stock of what a fantastic place this is. Without doubt beyond the three Ws, and perhaps stronger than the excellent Hankley Common for overall consistency, St George’s Hill certainly has echoes of Swinley Forest which puts it right at the pinnacle of English heathland golf.