Golf Courses at Littlestone Golf Club

Championship Links

The Championship links course is a stern test and remains in terrific condition year round thanks to the dry weather produced by the local area's micro-climate. With a rich golfing heritage that began over a century ago, Littlestone oozes character and tradition, which is why so many make the journey to the Kent coastline to enjoy some of the finest links golf.

The current layout is the combined effort of three great golf architects. Originally designed by William Laidlaw Purves, James Braid was hired to position strategic bunkers around the course then the club contacted Alister MacKenzie to repair sections of the layout damaged during the war.

The course is littered with fairway pot bunkers and gorse bushes can often be found in amongst the rough. Approaches to greens are mainly bunker free allowing approaches to land short and roll onto the putting surface, a feature of many true links courses.

Littlestone Golf Club is ranked as one of the best courses in the South East and a must play in a Kent coastal Tour.

Guests are required to show an up to date handicap certificate upon arrival.

Course Information
Par	71
Designed by	William Laidlaw Purves, James Braid, Alister MacKenzie
Opened for play	1888

Tees
White	6,486 yards	SSS 73
Yellow	6,150 yards	SSS 70
Red	5,756 yards	SSS 74

The Warren Course

Littlestone Golf Club also has the lesser known Warren Course which provides the perfect partner to the Championship Links, although shorter it still provides a stern test when the wind blows and is set slightly further in land.

The naturally rugged layout was extended from 9 holes to 18 in 1993 and is built on the edge of the famous Romney Marsh offering firm, fast fairways amongst natural dunes, terrifying rough and classic links bunkering.

Course Information
Par	67
Opened for play	1993 (extended to 18 holes)

Tees
White	5,241 yards	SSS 65
Yellow	4,910 yards	SSS 65
Red	4,847 yards	SSS 67

How to get to Littlestone Golf Club
Littlestone Golf Club is located 20 miles south of the M20 off the A259.

Address: St. Andrews Road, Littlestone, New Romney, Kent, England. TN28 8RB

Features

Pro Shop
Putting Greens
Club House
Championship Standard Course

8.0

Very Good

Steve – Reviewed 25 May 2023

8.0

Very Good

Good course, friendly team.

Ali – Reviewed 22 May 2023

6.0

Good

Disappointed in coarse been told very good things over the years sadly imo coarse was poorly presented it has been a very dry summer tbf but fairways have failed to recover very poor green la tbf we’re fine

Tony – Reviewed 19 Oct 2022

Excellent

A beautiful day, so had a lovely time, if the wind was blowing it would be quite difficult. Lots of bunkers to catch you out. Really enjoyable round

Nicky – Reviewed 13 Sep 2022

Excellent

A hidden gem ! An hours drive away but we’ll worth playing

Andrew – Reviewed 13 Jun 2022

Excellent

Great challenge of a course, friendly helpful staff, beautiful location and clubhouse with lots of character couldn’t fault the place.

Andrew – Reviewed 31 May 2022

Excellent

Very good course set up very fairly with rough at a minimum and wide fairways the challenge being to avoid the bunkers especially the fairway traps. We were fortunate with a warm sunny day and only a slight breeze. Pro shop staff very helpful and arranged a buggy at short notice as one of our group broke his big toe a few days before we went on tour. I would strongly recommend a visit.

David – Reviewed 23 May 2022

8.0

Very Good

Dishang – Reviewed 5 Oct 2021

8.0

Very Good

Super trip canterbury and Littlestone both excellent. Room on the small side with very warm conditions, a little too far from littlestone

Gary – Reviewed 23 Jul 2021

8.0

Very Good

Tony – Reviewed 11 Jul 2021

Excellent

Wonderful

Jon – Reviewed 8 Oct 2020

8.0

Very Good

Littlestone proved a very testing first round. Course was in good condition. A 30mph wind made it very testing. Staff were very efficient and friendly.

David – Reviewed 1 Oct 2020

2.0

Poor

Course was in dreadful condition with some fairways almost totally lost. Tee boxes were also in poor condition. The course would have also benefited from a buggy bar on the way round as there is no halfway house. Clubhouse was tired and the bar food was average at best. This was a bucket list course for most of my group and we were left feeling terribly disappointed at the shocking lack of value for money. £109 per round is quite frankly a rip off! We won’t be returning any time soon.

Nigel – Reviewed 30 Sep 2020

8.0

Very Good

The course was being updated in terms of the fairways, and we had to use mats, which was not ideal! apart from that we enjoyed the course, and the greens.

Mark – Reviewed 28 Oct 2019

6.0

Good

Requires more signage on the course to help the first time golfer there to get round the course

Simon – Reviewed 16 Oct 2019

6.0

Good

Littlestone is a gem and we enjoyed playing it. The back nine is really interesting and a solid test of golf on every level However, the hot summer got the best of the fairways so they were in pretty rough shape. But that didn't stop us from enjoying our round. If you are in the area, don't miss it. Would like to play again when fairways are in better shape. (We spoke to some of the grounds crew who explained the reason the fairways were not so healthy. Wish the pro shop staff had let us know and explained before we teed off--would have helped. But the grounds crew were so proud of their course and thrilled we came all the way from US to play which made us feel better about the day.)

Julieta – Reviewed 10 Sep 2019

8.0

Very Good

Good links course but was expecting a tougher test in the bunkers and some more undulations on the greens for a true links test. Back 9 was the better 9 for me.

David – Reviewed 25 Aug 2019

4.0

Average

Patrick – Reviewed 27 Apr 2019

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