Newton Green Golf Club

South Suffolk North Essex Border

Independent Course Review

Newton Green Golf Club

Newton Green Golf Club
Newton
Sudbury
Suffolk
CO10 0QN

Email: info@newtongreengolfclub.co.uk
Secretary: 01787 377217
Club House: 01787 377501
Pro Shop: 01787 313215
Fax: 01787 377549

We have played golf at Newton Green Golf Club for more 20 years visiting with different Associations and Societies. A quirky flat little course with a well-established 9 holes on heathland designed more than 100 years ago supplemented by another 9 holes created around 1995 on agricultural land. The two parts of the course are very different. The older part is on common ground with the busy A134 Sudbury to Colchester road running through the middle of the Newton Green village and alongside the golf course. The new holes are still maturing and although the greens are good some of the fairways bear the problems of building on previously agricultural land as opposed to natural heathland

Situated on the Suffolk/Essex borders it is not the easiest course to reach via the busy A12 in the east or A14 from the north.

Newton Green Golf Club

It is a club that aspires to be one of the best in the county but falls well short and in our opinion really will never compete with the best courses like Aldeburgh, Thorpeness, Ipswich, Royal Worlington, Woodbridge, Stowmarket, Ufford Park and Bury St Edmunds and this is backed up in various publications, for example, it doesn’t currently feature in the Golf Monthly top ten courses in Suffolk. Surprisingly, however, it has over recent years produced great golfers of all ages and gender and punches well above its weight in terms of County match play competitions.

The course is one of the shortest in Suffolk at 5961 yards from the white tees with the back nine nearly 600 yards shorter that the front which mainly made up from the new holes. It measures 5623 yards from the yellow tees 5413 yards from the ladies red tees. It is a Par 69 with a Standard Scratch 68 off whites and a Standard Scratch of 67 off the yellow tees. The longest hole is the 4th a par 5 at 557 yards. The shortest hole is the par 3 6th at 167yards.

Newton Green Golf Club

The first time I played the course was in an Association/Society medal round where on the very first hole I put my first two tee shots out of bounds on the right eventually playing 5 off the tee. I finished with a big fat 10 after playing to the wrong hole. The real hole is a right hand dog leg at around 280 yards so you must play up the left hand side of the fairway to see the pin. At 416 yards they recommend you play it as a par 5 laying up with your second shot leaving a short shot into the green. Ironically I should have had a clue with this hole in that on the card the name of the hole is CORNER. Not the greatest start that I had to a medal round but I finished well on the easier back nine.

The course is always very well kept, the club house although small has recently been refurbished and is quite welcoming.

Newton Green Golf Club

Our opinion: Always worth playing a course to make up your own mind but with clubs like Stoke by Nayland, Hintlesham, Brett Vale and even Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket quite close if you are visiting the area, it’s not the first club you should play in Suffolk. If however you want to join a nice club with a reasonable golf course and you are living locally near Sudbury it's ideal.

Mercedes

Mercedes

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Mercedes

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