The Sunningdale GC Old Golf Course is a Parkland Golf Course designed by W Park at a length of 6063 it has 18 holes with a medal par of 70 and a 69 SSS Rating. Situated in the town of Sunningdale it is one of the South East Golf Courses that you may want to play and add to our golf course ratings to see if it will become one of a RateYourCourse top golf course

There are few more exhilarating sights than the view from the high 10th tee across an inviting valley, with the fairway rising to the wooded horizon. Behind the green, discreetly camouflaged but never out of mind, even if out of sight, is the halfway house where the grateful golfer can refresh the inner man. If there is one hole in England which fantasists would like to take them into banishment on a desert island it must be the tenth at Sunningdale.

Bobby Jones wished that he could take the entire course back with him to America. He did in fact take back cherished memories of Sunningdale and incorporated many of them in Augusta National. His enchantment was enhanced by his experience in the Open championship qualifying round of 1926. He played what has often been described (mistakenly) as the perfect round of golf, 33 shots and 33 putts for a highly satisfying 66. There have been many other notable rounds on the Old, a devastating 63 by Norman von Nida to clinch the Dunlop Masters and later a 64 by Gary Player to set the young South African off on his illustrious career. Sunningdale did not regard these scores as affronts but accepted them as confirmation of the rare skills of the golfers.

Within the club there is a faction which holds that the New Course, designed by Harry Colt and added in the twenties, is the superior course. This is by no means an eccentric view, for the New, with its combination of richly wooded and open heath land holes, is also superb in its own way. It is different but hardly inferior to its famous companion and the Sunningdale club is indeed doubly blessed in the quality and variety of its golf.