Harewood Downs at Harewood Downs Golf Club

Harewood Downs Golf Club sits in the Chiltern Hills near Amersham in Buckinghamshire, approximately 25 miles northwest of London. The course was designed by J. H. Taylor, the five-time Open Championship winner who became one of Britain's most prolific golf course architects in the early twentieth century. Taylor designed or remodeled over 200 courses during his career, bringing a player's understanding of strategic design to his work across the British Isles.

The layout occupies rolling Chiltern terrain characterized by the beech woodlands and chalk downland typical of this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Taylor's routing takes advantage of the natural elevation changes and wooded corridors that define the landscape. The course reflects the design principles Taylor developed through his playing career and architectural practice—emphasizing strategic options, natural hazards, and holes that reward thoughtful course management over pure length.

Harewood Downs serves a membership drawn from the surrounding Buckinghamshire and outer London communities. The club operates as a traditional members' club with the course as its central amenity. The Chilterns region hosts numerous established golf clubs dating from the early to mid-twentieth century, and Harewood Downs fits within this tradition of parkland and downland courses that take advantage of the area's distinctive topography and mature woodland settings.