Founded in 1888, Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club is a traditional members’ golf club set in the heart of the Ashdown Forest. One of the things that golf lovers most appreciate about playing here is that so little has changed over the club’s 130-year history. Heather, humps, hollows pools and streams remain nature’s defence against shooting a low score. The stunning heathland layout of the Old Course is currently rated (2025) in Golf World’s Top 100 Golf Courses in GB & I.

The Club offers two superb golf courses that are both entirely natural.

No earth has been moved, no ponds dug nor streams diverted. The courses have been fashioned around the contours of the land with the Old Course providing spectacular views over four counties and the West snaking its way through the mature broadleaf woodland of the Ashdown Forest.