Sunningdale Golf Club, New Course

Sunningdale’s New Course occupies the same exceptional heathland landscape as its older neighbour, but presents a distinctly different character. Designed by Harry Colt, it opened in 1923 after the club acquired and expanded an existing nine-hole course on Titlarks Farm. Colt's original layout was subsequently modified by Tom Simpson in the 1930s, before Colt and J.S.F. Morrison reworked the course again in 1939 to create the routing that largely survives today.

Where the Old Course flows through the heath with a certain generosity, the New is more rugged and demanding. Narrow, winding fairways are enclosed by dense heather, while the smaller, often elevated greens place a premium on accurate approaches and control of the ball. There is less formal bunkering and tree cover than on the Old, allowing the natural contours and rough to exert greater influence over the round. The course repeatedly asks the golfer to commit to lines through the heather and to judge the subtle changes in elevation, creating a more austere and exacting test. Its combination of Colt's strategic design and Sunningdale's superb heathland terrain makes the New Course one of the classic inland layouts in Britain.