Berkshire Golf Club Blue course

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Par/SSS: 71/71	Weekday Round: ££££
Yards: 6358	Day Ticket: ££££
Type: Parkland	Weekend Round: N/A
Holes: 18	Day Ticket: N/A

Hole	White Yards	Par	Yellow Yards	Stroke Index	Ladies Yards	Par	Stroke Index
1	217	3	211	8	207	3	5
2	344	4	327	12	301	4	8
3	475	5	460	3	425	5	12
4	153	3	143	17	133	3	17
5	330	4	306	10	273	4	10
6	476/526	5	463	5	438	5	3
7	364	4	345	13	328	4	13
8	404	4	392	1	355	4	1
9	310	4	298	15	275	4	15
	3073/3123	36			2735	36
10	199/232	3	191	9	170	3	14
11	477	5	465	11	402	5	7
12	355	4	345	4	334	4	4
13	154	3	141	18	127	3	18
14	363	4	353	6	348	4	9
15	406	4	392	14	357	4	2
16	452	4	439	2	427	5	16
17	378	4	368	16	352	4	6
18	403/418	4	383	7	350	4	11
	3187/3235	35			2867	36
	6260/6358	71			5602	72

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The Blue course is the Red’s more conventional and slightly shorter sister. A more standard four par 3s, three par 5s and eleven par 4s make up the configuration for this delightful par 71 course. In Bernard Darwin’s book, Golf Between Two Wars, he wrote: “The other, the Blue, which some people prefer, a little less ‘big’, but by no means a secondary course. The country is essentially undulating and interesting and full of natural beauty…The Berkshire courses have more of charm perhaps and less of austere grandeur than Walton Heath.”

Herbert Fowler was the Berkshire’s architect and the Blue course opened for play in 1928. Fowler was actually very good at designing excellent twin golf courses. Not only did Fowler design both courses here at the Berkshire, but he also designed the superb intertwined courses at Walton Heath, the Old and the New.

Both the Berkshire courses have the same natural hazards, although the Blue plays over flatter ground than the Red. Cruelly, the Blue opens up with an exceptionally tough par 3, with the tee directly in front of the clubhouse window. The green sits on a distant plateau.  Not the easiest hole on which to start a round of golf – play the Red course in the morning to prepare for it!

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