Gold Award – Golf Monthly Magazine
5 Stars – Today’s Golfer Magazine
Top 100 English Golf Courses
Top 1000 European Golf Courses – Peugeot Golf Guide
Driving through the Golden Gates of Bowood's grand entrance, you enter a golfing haven. Set within ‘Capability' Brown's 2000-acre Great Park and the estate of Bowood House and Gardens, lies the championship golf course carefully designed by Dave Thomas, architect of the Belfry.
Working with the natural beauty of majestic rolling parkland, with a wealth of mature trees and lakes, Thomas' brief was to create a course to be enjoyed by all who wished to play. With a range of tees on every hole, the higher handicapped golfer is not overwhelmed by too difficult a course, yet from the back tees in events which include the European Challenge Tour Championships, even the greatest from the professional ranks find this stunning course a challenging test of their skills.
Voted among the top ten new courses in Britain and top fifty golf destinations in Europe by Golf World Magazine, Bowood boasts one of the finest 18 hole courses in the South of England.
The course gives a genuine feeling of getting away from the stresses and strains of modern life. Indeed, only three buildings can be seen from the course - the Clubhouse, Queenwood Golf Lodge and Derry Hill Church spire. Bowood competes for length as well as difficulty with the toughest championship courses. Numerous tree and water barriers, together with cunningly placed bunkers, ensure that you have more to think about than just cutting the corners on the doglegs.
For those who are not feeling so brave, Thomas has been kind enough to provide forward tees, generous fairways and the opportunity to 'play safe'.
In summary, Bowood succeeds on three levels: it blends well with ‘Capability' Brown's landscape, it rewards good golf and it can accommodate all levels of ability, simultaneously and without strain. A successful four-year drainage programme was completed in June 1998, using 4,000 tonnes of sand and laying 10.5 miles of land drains. This ensures that the course remains dry and playable even in the harshest of British winters.
Bowood is one of a select group of top courses included in the Virtual Caddy portfolio of interactive course guides. Virtual Caddy walks you through every hole at Bowood with tips and advice on how to play every shot. Click here to view every tee shot and a full multimedia guide to the first hole.
‘Using Virtual caddy a few times before you play will help you to visualize your game and reduce your score’ Bernard Gallacher
Bowood Golf & Country Club the top golf course in Wiltshire is conveniently located in the M4 corridor close to the counties of Avon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, and Somerset. Away from it all in a beautiful tranquil setting, yet less than an hour from Bristol, Bath, Gloucester & Swindon and just minutes from Calne, Chippenham, Devizes, Marlborough, Melksham & Trowbridge.
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| Visitor Green Fees | |
| Weekdays | £49 pp |
| Weekends | £60 pp |
| Twilight Rates | |
| 2pm to 4pm | £35pp |
| 4pm to 6pm | £25pp |
| After 6pm | £15pp |
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