Long Ashton Course
Long Ashton Golf Club
About this course
Long Ashton Golf Club sits on elevated ground southwest of Bristol, overlooking the Ashton Court estate and the Avon Gorge. The course was redesigned by Martin Hawtree, a member of Britain's most prominent golf architecture family, whose work here reflects his characteristic attention to strategic variety and natural landform. The layout makes use of the property's rolling terrain and mature woodland, creating a parkland setting typical of courses in the West Country. The routing moves across varied topography, with several holes playing along ridgelines that offer views toward Bristol and the surrounding Somerset countryside. Hawtree's design incorporates elevation changes that affect club selection and shot-making, particularly on approach shots where the ground movement can deceive depth perception. The course features a mix of hole lengths and angles, with doglegs that reward accurate positioning and greens that require careful reading. Long Ashton serves a membership drawn largely from the Bristol area and hosts regular club competitions and regional amateur events. The course provides a test suitable for players of varying abilities, with length from the back tees that challenges stronger golfers while remaining accessible from forward markers. The club maintains traditional values of parkland golf in the region, where tree-lined fairways and well-maintained greens define the playing experience throughout the year.
Quick facts
- Location
- Long Ashton, Somerset, England
- Access
- Public
- Year built
- 1893
- Designer
- Martin Hawtree
- Holes
- 18
- Par
- 71
- Length
- 6,368 yards
- Difficulty
- 73.8/130
Getting there
Long Ashton Golf Club lies just four miles southwest of Bristol city center, making Bristol Airport the natural gateway for most arrivals, a swift twenty-minute drive through the rolling Somerset countryside. The approach from Bristol itself is deceptively quick - a brief passage along the A370 through leafy suburbs before climbing gently into the Ashton Court estate landscape, where the city's hum fades into wooded hillsides and open farmland. For those traveling from London or the Midlands, the M5 corridor delivers you to the club's doorstep in under two hours, the final turn onto Long Ashton's quiet lanes marking a sudden shift from motorway efficiency to the unhurried grace of a classic English parkland setting.

FAQ
Common questions about Long Ashton
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Long Ashton was designed by Martin Hawtree.
Yes. Long Ashton is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.
Par at Long Ashton is 71.
Long Ashton plays 6,368 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Long Ashton is 130.
Long Ashton is a 18-hole course.



