The best golf courses in the Cotswolds
The Cotswolds: where rolling green hills meet honey-stone villages, and the air hums with the genteel clink of a well-struck iron. This is a golfer’s paradise. Not in the wild, windswept links tradition, but in the quiet luxury of immaculately manicured fairways with whispering beech trees. Here is a curated selection of the finest golf courses in the Cotswolds, each of them an experience worth savouring.
Minchinhampton Golf Club
Minchinhampton is the grand dame of Cotswold golf—graceful, historic, and unshaken. It offers three courses. The Old Course, shared with grazing cows, dates back to 1889. It has no bunkers, just natural fairways and wandering walkers.
The two New Courses, Avening and Cherington, present a different challenge. Their rolling parkland layouts demand careful club selection. Greens are as smooth as a Savile Row waistcoat.
The experience? Timeless. A post-round drink in the stately clubhouse? Essential.
Broadway Golf Club
Perched on the northern edge of the Cotswolds, Broadway Golf Club offers something rare—a course where the scenery rivals the game. Step onto the first tee, and golf feels like an excuse to soak in the endless views over the Vale of Evesham.
The course is a blend of elevation changes, sweeping fairways, and gravity-defying greens. Tactics beat power here. Smart shot-making wins over brute force.
Broadway is golf at its most refined. Take a breath, send your drive soaring, and enjoy the elegance of the Cotswolds.
The Manor House Golf Club
The Manor House is golf with a bit of drama. Set in a 365-acre estate in Castle Combe—a village so picturesque it could be a film set—this course is an adventure from start to finish. As one of the standout golf courses in the Cotswolds, it offers risk-reward holes, tricky greens, and moments that test your golfing nerve.
The highlight? The par-3 17th. A brook winds in front of the green, daring you to go for it. Lay up or take it on? Either way, there’s a good chance you’ll get wet. But that’s what makes this course so special—challenging, exciting, and impossible to play just once.
Cirencester Golf Club
Cirencester Golf Club isn’t flashy, but it doesn’t need to be. It’s one of those courses that just quietly goes about its business, offering a really solid game of golf in stunning surroundings. The fairways run fast, the greens are slick, and the layout keeps you thinking without ever feeling unfair.
It’s a course that rewards smart golf—going for glory on every hole will probably land you in trouble, but if you plot your way around, you’ll walk off feeling like a golfing genius. Plus, the clubhouse is a proper Cotswold stone beauty, the kind of place you could easily spend an hour or two dissecting your round over a well-earned drink.
Final thoughts:
Golf in the Cotswolds isn’t about smashing it 300 yards or navigating terrifying pot bunkers. It’s about rolling fairways, epic views, and courses with personality. Whether you fancy the tradition of Minchinhampton, the scenery of Broadway, the challenge of Manor House, or the understated quality of Cirencester, one thing’s for sure—this is golfing country at its finest.
So grab your clubs, bring your A-game (or at least a decent excuse for when things go wrong), and enjoy some of the best golf the Cotswolds has to offer.
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