Royal St Georges Golf Club
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Royal St Georges Golf Club, Kent is an 18 hole, par 70 (7204 yard), private, links golf course designed by William Laidlaw Purves in 1887.
Contact Information
Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9PB United Kingdom
Tel: 01304 613090Golf Pro: Justen Fiddler | Tel: 01304 615236
Website: http://www.royalstgeorges.com/
Tee Time Information
- Midweek Guide: £170.00 per round *
- Weekend Guide: members only *
* Any prices shown are guide prices, please confirm with the course prior to booking.
Course Information:
18 holes | Par 70 | 7204 yards | Private | Links
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Royal St Georges Golf Club Reviews & Information
Golfshake Rating
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Average Ratings
4.69 ... Overall Rating
4.80 ... The Course
4.67 ... Course Cond.
4.46 ... Facilities/Serv.
3.96 ... VFM
4.69 ... Overall Rating
4.80 ... The Course
4.67 ... Course Cond.
4.46 ... Facilities/Serv.
3.96 ... VFM
Addtional Ratings
4.57 ... Pace of play
4.47 ... Hospitality.
4.00 ... Prac. Facil.
4.00 ... Food + Drink
4.57 ... Pace of play
4.47 ... Hospitality.
4.00 ... Prac. Facil.
4.00 ... Food + Drink
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52 ratings & 39 reviews on Golfshake. Ranked 202 out of 2122.
HIGHLY RATED - 94% would play again or recommend
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Reviewed Oct 4 2019 by Richard T - rated 5 out of 5 Superb
Played RSG on a beautiful day in early September. The wind was about 15mph. I started brilliantly, only 3 over after 10. It went down hill a bit after that as I started driving badly. The course is great especially the front nine. Holes 2 to 8 are the most memorable. 4 is iconic, with the massive bunker you drive over and 5 has those mountainous sand dunes to go over for you second shot. The changing rooms are nice but I found the bar a bit underwhelming. Still we enjoyed a couple of masterbrews outside on the terrace - very nice.(Round played: Sep 2019 - Score: 83 Handicap: 11.7)
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Reviewed Oct 2 2019 by Tony M - rated 5 out of 5 View more
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Reviewed Aug 13 2019 by Barry G - rated 5 out of 5 The Open venue for 2020
Just phenomenal, this course is fantastic, a real challenge, particularly when the wind blows.The championship tees add plenty of length and a different outlook to most of the holes.
Thoroughly enjoyed this majestic course and highly recommend to play it, if you get you the chance.
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Reviewed Jul 24 2019 by Lee M - rated 5 out of 5 Amazing Venue, would play again & again...................................
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(Round played: Jul 2019 - Score: 74 Handicap: 2)
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(Round played: Jul 2019 - Score: 74 Handicap: 2)
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Reviewed Oct 18 2018 by Matthew B - rated 5 out of 5 Amazing
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Reviewed Jul 10 2018 by Dean S - rated 5 out of 5 Deserved No1
Not much I can add to what has already been said. Simply wonderful.Fully-deserving if its ranking as England?s No1. Every hole an experience and adventure..especially some of the routes I took!
A demanding but fair test where good shots can be rewarded, if you avoid the bunkers! A complete privilege to play.
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Reviewed Jan 29 2018 by Col - rated 5 out of 5 True Links
Not a flashy venue but so much history and tradition take a while to look at the clubs,trophies and memorabilia from past opens in the cabinets in the clubhouse. Great changing rooms and the staff were 1st class from the pro shop, clubhouse and green staff. Get the full English it will keep you going all day!! Yes having to wear a jacket after 11am is a bit old fashioned but that’s there tradition and adds to the grandure of the place.The course was in great condition for the time of year and every hole is different and depending on wind direction can play very long or shorter than expected I wouldn’t say a caddy is vital but a course planer is. The fairways are undulating and make for some tricky approach shots!
This is a true links gem. And at £100 off peak fantastic value.
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Reviewed Oct 27 2017 by Ian H - rated 5 out of 5 lives up to the billing
absolutely world class course, facilities and people. definitely worth getting a caddie who are all super friendly. I played crap but had a great day.(Round played: Oct 2017 - Score: 81 Handicap: 3.7)
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Reviewed Aug 26 2017 by Graham (Kent) - rated 5 out of 5 Golfs garden of Eden
A true test of golf,beautiful layout to forget the real world and walk in the footsteps of the greats of this wonderful game.My favourite course by a country mile the blind shots punishing bunkers and sloping greens it's heaven.
Wonderful wonderful venue
Shame on anyone who can find fault at St Georges
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Reviewed Jul 30 2017 by Ashley R - rated 5 out of 5 Amazing course. Lived up to expectations.
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Reviewed Jun 14 2017 by Dean C - rated 5 out of 5 Hugely Enjoyable
Only managed to get 9 holes played the previous week due to horrendous weather. Good to experience a true links course at its worst (weather). The club were kind enough to allow us to re-book and the conditions couldn't have been more different. Bright sunshine/no wind and a true pleasure to play the course. On both occasions found the staff to be most welcoming and friendly. Superb.(Round played: Jun 2017 - Score: 98 Handicap: )
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Reviewed Mar 1 2017 by Matthew P - rated 5 out of 5 WOW, what a course. We was lucky to get on thanks to a friend and we enjoyed every second of this amazing track. Caddies we're pretty good as well.
(Round played: Sep 2016 - Score: 88 Handicap: 15.9)
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Reviewed Feb 28 2017 by James D - rated 5 out of 5 Stunning course and highly recommended.
Great food after as well
(Round played: Feb 2017 - Score: 88 Handicap: 14.7)
View moreGreat food after as well
(Round played: Feb 2017 - Score: 88 Handicap: 14.7)
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Reviewed Nov 13 2016 by Santo Domingo - rated 5 out of 5 I am not sure why Royal St Georges permits green fee players .It has many socities playing and a solid membership. .St Georges is an experience of understated quality from the very moment you enter the lane to the club , to playing on the huge layout and to lunching afterwards. There are those who are not accustomed to changing for lunch , nor to restrained welcomes and write critical reports .Every time I play there , I have had a wonderfully relaxing day . The greens and fairways need maintenance and rotten luck if you play at these times , but really , you can still enjoy the challenge .
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Reviewed May 24 2016 by Pete B - rated 5 out of 5 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Reviewed Dec 29 2015 by Steve E - rated 5 out of 5 A course that can be difficult to navigate for the first time. I was quite nervous as the course has a a daunting reputation, but it was really good to test myself on a more challenging course. Stay straight off the tee or lose a lot of golf balls!
(Round played: Dec 2015 - Score: 102 Handicap: 25.9)
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Reviewed Dec 21 2015 by Large Chris - rated 5 out of 5 As Seve said on his first visit ¿dónde está el campo de golf. Where is the golf course.
The biggest most cragged dunes of any Course on the Open rota, leading to many blind tee shots, and if it's a little wet underfoot you will get severe sloppy lies even from good tee shots. Many of the pros dislike it as they see it as unfair and unrewarding of their perfect strikes. But for everyone else who is less good than scratch, I argue that the large verging on enormous greens and bunkers mostly set a few yards back from the putting surface make St Georges the most fun to play of any British Links. The pros would take Birkdale all day long, but most amateurs will tire of the bunkers left and right off every tee shot and small greens always running off into the pots. By contrast, St Georges is far more forgiving, and in many places very flattering. Yes the clubhouse rules are stuck in the past, Lytham and Liverpool for example are virtually fully open to the visitor who can spend ages soaking up the history on display, St Georges is a little more.... Self important. But you know, that's ok. The George even seems to have a machine to keep the rough penal but sufficiently thinned out to make losing balls a rarity the times I've played it. If I had to play just one course the rest of my life - maybe this one. Magnificent.
View moreThe biggest most cragged dunes of any Course on the Open rota, leading to many blind tee shots, and if it's a little wet underfoot you will get severe sloppy lies even from good tee shots. Many of the pros dislike it as they see it as unfair and unrewarding of their perfect strikes. But for everyone else who is less good than scratch, I argue that the large verging on enormous greens and bunkers mostly set a few yards back from the putting surface make St Georges the most fun to play of any British Links. The pros would take Birkdale all day long, but most amateurs will tire of the bunkers left and right off every tee shot and small greens always running off into the pots. By contrast, St Georges is far more forgiving, and in many places very flattering. Yes the clubhouse rules are stuck in the past, Lytham and Liverpool for example are virtually fully open to the visitor who can spend ages soaking up the history on display, St Georges is a little more.... Self important. But you know, that's ok. The George even seems to have a machine to keep the rough penal but sufficiently thinned out to make losing balls a rarity the times I've played it. If I had to play just one course the rest of my life - maybe this one. Magnificent.
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Reviewed Dec 15 2015 by Giless C - rated 5 out of 5 A faded 30’s seaside bungalow of a clubhouse, with predictably prissy dress code.. A miniscule car park. A 300 squelchy yard romp to a practise range, an imaginative flat saucer putting green. A featureless coastline to border the grey moonscape that can only be St Georges. Even the list of recent winners of the claret jug read not so much a who’s who, as a who’s not of world golf, with just two other majors to the names of the last 5 winners. Perhaps the large run offs and wide fairways mean luck plays a bigger factor than it strictly should. Don’t expect distance markers on flags, much less marker posts to assist the numerous blind shots
And yet none of this matters at all. This is not the course for the bar room bore who can only talk about his backswing, or the yellow neophyte with little historical interest in the game. This is the course which must have had as many memorable Open moments over it’s 14 incarnations, as any other. This is the course for those that know of Bradshaws’ bottle and Duncans’ hollow. Langers OB or the Sands of Bjorn. Couples’ footle into the burn, Normans or Cottons imperious rampages to the title of Champion golfer. We don’t complain of the nouveaux baroque columns at Buckingham Palace, or the pompadoured rococo stylistic exercise that is Tower Bridge. If you complain about Royal St Georges shortcomings, you are simply seeing the game as would a soulless, detached automaton.
View moreAnd yet none of this matters at all. This is not the course for the bar room bore who can only talk about his backswing, or the yellow neophyte with little historical interest in the game. This is the course which must have had as many memorable Open moments over it’s 14 incarnations, as any other. This is the course for those that know of Bradshaws’ bottle and Duncans’ hollow. Langers OB or the Sands of Bjorn. Couples’ footle into the burn, Normans or Cottons imperious rampages to the title of Champion golfer. We don’t complain of the nouveaux baroque columns at Buckingham Palace, or the pompadoured rococo stylistic exercise that is Tower Bridge. If you complain about Royal St Georges shortcomings, you are simply seeing the game as would a soulless, detached automaton.
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Reviewed Oct 14 2015 by Todd L - rated 5 out of 5 A great experience. One of the best courses and clubhouses in the UK.
(Round played: Sep 2015 - Score: 82 Handicap: 5)
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Reviewed Sep 29 2015 by Iwan B - rated 5 out of 5 A wonderful but daunting course for someone playing it first time. A great experience nevertheless.
(Round played: Sep 2015 - Score: 104 Handicap: 24)
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