A Surrey golf club is up for sale, and could be transformed by a new owner. Savills is listing a championship putting green, in the beautiful Guildford countryside, all for the asking price of £2.25million.
Merrist Wood Golf Club is up for grabs, either to be re-launched as a golf club or developed into something new, subject to planning permission. The 18-hole, 6,909-yard course was designed by the highly regarded golf architect David Williams. As well as the golf course, the site also includes practice facilities and a purpose-built 8,177 sq ft clubhouse, set in 210.49 acres.
The course makes the most of the natural environment around it, and has a gentle south facing slope, four lakes and numerous areas of mature woodlands and hedgerows. When it opened, it made quite the splash, being named one of the UK’s top 10 new courses constructed in the 1990s.
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The owners have been seeking planning permission to re-contour the landscape and re-model the golf course. This means that since autumn of 2023 only nine holes have been maintained to a basic but playable standard, with the remaining nine holes closed but maintained as a golf landscape. The clubhouse is also in need of upgrading.
Merrist Wood Golf Club is on Holly Lane in Fairlands, an area very popular with house hunters. It is also near the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and just outside Guildford.
Kay Griffiths, a director in leisure and trade related team at Savills, explained: “Merrist Wood Golf Course is a substantial landholding in a prime Surrey location with potential to be re-launched as a mature 18-hole golf course or alternatively put to a variety of alternative uses, subject to obtaining the required planning permission. We anticipate substantial interest from a diverse range of potential buyers as opportunities of this nature rarely arise in such an attractive location.”
