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The Ryder Challenge
An event that started as a drunken New Years eve ‘challenge’ has now left it's teenage adolescence behind and is entering its 20th year. This is not the 'real' Ryder Cup, rather an amateur golfing event which brings together a group of European and American golfers, for some competitive golfing fun and friendship every two years
What makes
The Ryder Challenge so special?...
2019 Courses
The Best of Surrey & Berkshire, England
In 2019 we have lined up a real treat with the #9, #12, #24, #29, #34, #64 and #86 ranked clubs in
Great Britain & Ireland*
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23 June: Worplesdon
24 June: Walton Heath
25 June: Hankley Common
26 June: St George's Hill
27 June: Sunningdale
28 June: Woking
*Golf Monthly
Sunningdale Old & New
"Many people regard Sunningdale as the perfect golfing venue. The Old & New courses together are probably the finest pair of golf courses anywhere.
It is pure enchantment that characterizes Sunningdale Old. Virtually every hole is played in splendid – and beautiful – isolation, and in harmony with nature. The New is perhaps a bit more rugged than the Old. This is rich and handsome and challenging golf, Harry Colt in top form"
Golf Monthly & 100 Top Golf Courses
Walton Heath Old
"Host of the 1981 Ryder Cup, it’s now home to international qualifying for the US Open, the British Masters and is first class in every respect, with history lining the clubhouse walls.
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Not the prettiest but superb greens protected by strategically placed bunkers. A very tough test as it is always windy. Some very difficult greens to read correctly. A great inland course that plays hard and fast. Heather and pine flank the fairways."
Golf Monthly
Worplesdon
"A classic Surrey Heathland layout which ranks highest of the three W's in Golf Monthly's UK&I Top 100. Worplesdon is one of the prettiest and most delightful of Surrey's many heath and heather courses. Its not long at just less than 6.500 yeards, but its supremely challenging and driving accuracy is far more important than length."
Golf Monthly & Top 100 Golf Courses
St George's Hill
"St George’s Hill is a classic and classy pine-clad course, and it epitomises all that is great and traditional about golf.
There are thrilling elevation changes which both reward and ask questions, and the unique and very stylish clubhouse looks imperiously down from the side of the hill over the course"
Golf Monthly
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Hankley Common
"A mighty fine layout in an incredible setting, Hankley Common is a special place. From the many high points on the course, it’s amazing to view the holes stretching in all directions across the huge swathe of land over which the layout sits. Greens as smooth as silk, heather and hard fairways place a premium on accuracy. A magnificent example of a true heathland, as it is cut through swathes of heather. "
Golf Monthly & Today's Golfer
Woking
"There is absolutely no doubt that Woking is located in an idyllic spot and the unusual pavilion club house only adds to the charisma. Woking is a heathland course providing the golfer with a test characterised by beautiful but menacing heather carries, fast running fairways and greens full of “subtle” slopes."
Top 100 Golf Courses & Golfshake.com
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