Chart Hills Golf Club: new dawn for epic inland wonder
It’s a stiflingly hot summer’s day and our journey to Chart Hills Golf Club is nearing an end, as we negotiate Kent’s charming country lanes – the garden of England is a truly alluring part of the world, even in this heat. We turn through the gates and wind our way along the driveway and up to the imposing clubhouse. We may have arrived at our destination but today we have come to a place that has been on a journey of its own. The welcome is wonderful and genuine, the service is like something you would expect to find…
The Lodge at Prince’s Golf Club is the perfect golf break
From the moment you enter The Lodge at Prince’s Golf Club it’s clear you’re following in the footsteps of champions. A photograph hangs in the reception area showing Colin Morikawa drinking from the Claret Jug in joyous celebration. It was taken in the bar here on the night he won The Open next door at Royal St George’s Golf Club. Morikawa, Cameron Smith, Rickie Fowler and Phil Mickelson were just some of the great names to stay here during the 2021 Open. It was a place where they could relax, stay in comfort and even practice and although it sits…
Why picturesque Prince’s is one of England’s finest links
There can be few places to rival Prince’s Golf Club as a place to watch the sun rise on a day like this. We’re sitting by the putting green at The Lodge at Prince’s, waiting. In the dawn mist, Sandwich Bay itself is so still it’s as if someone has placed a piece of dark glass on the water. Soon the sun starts to appear on the horizon and the light begins to creep across the 27-holes away to our left, illuminating the white of the sand scrapes, dancing across the texture of the sleeper paths and catching the long…
Hillside Golf Club: a joyous assault on the senses
It’s early on a glorious July morning as I turn left through the gates of Hillside Golf Club. The place is abuzz with people. The team from the DP World Tour are on site constructing grandstands, measuring for yardage books, and preparing for a tour event which arrives here in the next few days. The car park is already filling up and the temperature is rising. I’m running late and have been for the past 90 minutes, scampering through the traffic in a vain attempt to make up lost time but it isn’t to be – I park up a…