The Best Golf Resorts in Hampshire
Let us be straight with you: Hampshire is one of England's great golf counties, but it is not a great resort county. Most of its finest courses, the heathland of Liphook and Blackmoor, the links at Hayling, are members' clubs with no hotel attached. The true stay and play list is short, four properties, and only one of them is a destination resort in the full sense. We have ranked all four honestly below, said plainly what each one is, and pointed you to the right beds for the famous courses that have none of their own.
Photograph: Old Thorns Hotel & Resort, via Google
How we chose
This list was researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk, and every designer, opening year and fee on it was checked against resort and club sources in June 2026. The bar for inclusion was simple: a hotel and a golf course you can book together. That bar rules out more Hampshire names than it admits. South Winchester is a members' club, Dummer and Barton-on-Sea have no hotel, and Botley Park, once the county's fourth hotel course, closed its golf in 2015 to make way for housing. We have also resisted padding the list with country house hotels that merely sit near a course, with one exception, Tylney Hall, which we include at number four with its arrangement spelled out honestly.
Within the four, we ranked on the quality and depth of the golf first, then the stay, then value. Hampshire golf is playable almost year round on its sandy heath and chalk downland, with April to October the prime window, and the green fees here are gentle by southern England standards, a fraction of what the famous Surrey heathland charges next door. Every fee quoted carries its season and year and is indicative rather than guaranteed, so always confirm directly before booking. For the county's full course picture, start with our guide to the best golf courses in Hampshire.
The best in Hampshire, ranked
Old Thorns Hotel and Resort
The only full destination golf resort in Hampshire, and a proper one. The course was begun by Commander John Harris, the leading British architect of his day, and completed after his death by Peter Alliss and Dave Thomas, who saw the par 72 through to its official opening in July 1982, an opening endorsed by an exhibition four ball of Jack Nicklaus, Seve Ballesteros, Isao Aoki and the reigning Open champion Bill Rogers. The layout rolls across a 400 acre wooded estate on the Hampshire and Surrey border with water in play and long views over the heath country, and the resort around it has more than 150 rooms plus apartments, a serious spa, a TopTracer range and golf breaks that bundle it all. Published 2026 green fees ran 90 pounds midweek and 120 pounds at weekends in high season, April to September, with hotel residents paying 60 to 70 pounds and winter rates from 70 pounds, indicative only; always confirm directly before booking.
Access: public; residents get the best rates and times. Check stay and play rates.
Sandford Springs Hotel and Golf Club
The most golf per night in the county. Sandford Springs runs 27 holes in three distinct nines, the Park, the Woods and the Lakes, designed by Hawtree and Son across the rolling chalk country below Watership Down, with the first 18 opened by Nick Faldo and Bernard Gallacher in June 1989 and the third nine added in 1991. The Woods loop is the beauty and the bruiser, climbing through mature timber with the best views on the property. The hotel is a modern 40 room house set right on the course, comfortable rather than grand, and the stay and play pricing is honest. Published 2026 green fees ran 55 pounds midweek and 65 pounds at weekends before 1pm in high season, April to October, with twilight at 32 pounds and winter rates from 40 pounds, indicative only; always confirm directly before booking.
Access: public; hotel guests get preferred fees. Check stay and play rates.
Meon Valley Hotel, Spa and Golf
The biggest golf estate in Hampshire, with an honest caveat. Meon Valley's 27 holes, the championship Meon Course plus the Valley and Stirling nines, were laid out by J. Hamilton Stutt in the mid 1970s through 225 acres of oak forest in the Meon valley, and the Meon Course, tight, tree lined and well bunkered at par 71, remains a genuinely good test that has hosted professional tour golf. The caveat is the hotel: for decades this was a Marriott country club, but it now trades as Meon Valley Hotel, Spa and Golf under Britannia Hotels, a budget operator, so set your expectations for the rooms accordingly and judge the property on its fairways, its spa and pool, and its price. Recent published visitor green fees sat around 36 pounds midweek for 18 holes, exceptional value for the golf, though rates move; confirm with the resort and always confirm directly before booking.
Access: public; societies and golf days are the house specialty. Check tee times.
Tylney Hall and Tylney Park Golf Club
Included with its cards on the table: the golf here is not on the hotel's books. Tylney Hall is a grand Victorian mansion hotel in 66 acres of gardens, the most luxurious stay on this list by a distance, and Tylney Park Golf Club is a separate club playing across the old estate parkland next door, a par 72 stretching to 7,019 yards from the back tees through 200 acres of woodland, with lakes and streams in play. The hotel markets golf alongside its rooms and the club welcomes visitors daily, so in practice it works like a stay and play, you just book the two halves with two phone calls. Recent published green fees at Tylney Park ran around 40 pounds midweek and 45 pounds at weekends, indicative only; always confirm directly before booking. Our verdict: the choice when the non golfers in the party outvote you.
Access: hotel and club booked separately; call the golf shop ahead for weekend times. Check stay and play rates.
Designers, opening years and fees verified June 2026 by the GolfForKings editorial desk from resort, club and ranking sources. Rates shown carry their season and year and are indicative only; always confirm directly with each resort before booking.
Plan a Hampshire golf trip
Tell us roughly when and who is traveling. One concierge bases you at Old Thorns or Sandford Springs, arranges visitor times at Liphook, Blackmoor and Hayling, pairs the right rooms, and prices the trip honestly. We reply within one working day, with no obligation.
Building the trip
The honest play in Hampshire is to treat a resort as your base and the members' clubs as your destination. The county's three finest courses have no hotel: Liphook, one of England's purest heathland layouts, and Blackmoor, a Harry Colt design of the same school, both sit within a few minutes of Old Thorns, which is precisely why our number one earns its spot, while the cherished old links at Hayling, down on its island off Portsmouth, pairs with a south coast night rather than a resort. All three welcome visitors on weekdays with a little planning; our guide to how to play golf in Hampshire covers the booking detail and the Hampshire green fees guide covers the money.
The shape of the long weekend writes itself: two nights at Old Thorns for the resort course plus Liphook and Blackmoor, then either north to Sandford Springs or south to the coast for Hayling. The famous Surrey heathland, Hankley Common among it, starts a few miles over the county line, so a Hampshire base raids the best golf courses in Surrey cheaply, with our when to play Surrey guide setting the calendar. Widen the lens with the best golf courses in England and our England destination guide, follow the coast on the seven day England south coast itinerary, or hand the whole thing to plan my trip and our Hampshire golf holidays desk.
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Researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk. Courses, designers, fees and access verified June 2026. Last reviewed: June 2026. See how we rank.