The Guildford-based club boasts an 18-hole, 6,909-yard championship course designed by David Williams and a 8,177 square foot clubhouse, all set in 210 acres.
The course, which benefits from a gentle south facing slope, four lakes and numerous areas of mature woodlands, was voted by Golf World as one of the UK’s top ten new courses when it first opened in 1998. More recently the owners have been seeking planning permission to re-contour the landscape the course to an enhanced design which has been created in conjunction with Sam Torrance.
As a result of this process, since 2023 only nine holes have been maintained to a basic, but playable standard, for a green fee of £10, with the remaining nine holes being closed, but maintained as a golf landscape. The clubhouse is also in need of upgrading.
Once owned and operated by Crown Golf, Merrist Wood Golf Club was bought in 2021 by The Wooldridge Group (formerly known as Lavershot Oaks), a Bagshot-based company which specialises in civil and contract build projects. The company filed for administration in February 2024.
Kay Griffiths, a director in leisure and trade related team at Savills, commented: “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.”
