Welcome to Rye Golf Club

respected, where foursomes is the game of choice……The course is a masterpiece and is a wonderful course to play in the winter, not least because it drains so well". The course rarely closes, conditions are always perfect underfoot, and each hole tells its own story as you will see in the other pages of this web site.

Henry Longhurst selected the 4th at Rye as a par 4½ in his perfect course. “I take the 4th at Rye at the time of the President’s Putter, with a perishing wind nearly blowing you off the high tee in the sandhills, but just enabling you to reach the edge of the green with – unlikely thought! – a perfect drive and a brassie”.

He also included the 5th hole in his course. “It shall go to one which possesses that quality which the architects call “indestructibility”, the power to survive changes in the ball and the weather and everything else – the ‘Pulpit’ at Rye, once the 8th, now the 5th. We play it with the same tremendous left-hand wind nearly blowing us off the tee, and the shot is a 4 iron. Interesting to note that this and the 5th at Mildenhall do not possess a single bunker between them”.

(The Essential Henry Longhurst, edited by Chris Plumridge, Pan books 1990)

The weather is not always bad. There are glorious days where the only sound on the divide between the Old Course and the new Jubilee course is the song of the skylarks and the sigh of the marram grass moving gently on the dunes. Ah Rye!