The Inspiration Club

The Inspiration Club introduces a new arrival on the golfing scene in West London. Crafted by the prolific design team of Tom Mackenzie & Martin Ebert, this modern inland links-style course revels in its linksy openness. An "inner" front-nine loop leads onto the "outer" back-nine, both serving-up one excellently crafted hole after another.

In true links fashion, there are plenty of eye-catching, revetted-style, silver-sanded bunkers in play. They define the rolling good-width fairways and lend stout defence around the greens. In time, some holes will benefit from greater definition, thanks to a modest scattering of newly-planted trees.

There's more variety on the back-nine, something signalled by the short, drivable, risk-reward par-4 10th. The "no-two-holes-the-same" theme continues at the par-5 11th, which gently climbs to an attractively bunker-defended elevated green. Ever-undulating, the layout contains a pleasant mix of straightaway and doglegging holes ... sharply doglegging at the par-4 16th.

Here at The Inspiration you'll find dramatically contoured USGA-specification greens ... some large, some very large. The 60-yard green at the long par-4 17th is surely a candidate for the longest putting surface in West London. Often slightly elevated, the excellent greens are defended by slick run-off areas and testing mounding.

Beyond the course lies an eclectic mix of rural countryside, the busy A40 Western Avenue road, a rifle range and the neighbouring West London Golf Centre. Most of the time you look across to the RAF Northolt airfield, with a pleasant view over Harrow-on-the-Hill coming at the highest part of the course ... at the par-5 18th. Despite it's busy West London location, the course itself is generally quieter and more natural than you'd guess. Well worth a visit!