How to Get Tee Times in the Cotswolds
No ballots, no handicap interrogations, no year long waits: Cotswolds golf is the easiest great booking in England. Cleeve Hill, a national top 100 course, sells times online from 25 pounds; Broadway books through a phone call to the pro shop; the one real diary trap is Minchinhampton Old giving its common back to the public on Sunday afternoons. Here is each club's route in and how to thread a golden stone weekend.
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The short answer
Book Cleeve Hill first, not because it is hard to get on but because its best windows are the ones worth designing the trip around. The course perched on the highest ground in the Cotswolds runs a simple published 2026 card, 50 pounds before noon midweek, 60 at weekends, falling to 25 and 30 after 4pm, and sells the lot through its BRS online system. A summer evening twilight round up there, with the Severn Vale going gold below, is the single best cheap ticket in English golf.
Minchinhampton runs online visitor booking across three courses, the two championship layouts at the main club plus the bunkerless Old Course on the common, and Broadway books the old fashioned way, through the pro shop on 01386 853275. None of them demands a handicap certificate ceremony; all of them appreciate a call if your group is large or your plans involve catering. The region's full course rundown is in our best courses in the Cotswolds list.
Booking windows and rates by club
| Club | How to book | Windows, limits and 2026 rates |
|---|---|---|
| Cleeve Hill | BRS online visitor booking or 01242 672025 | 2026 card (April 1 to October 31): midweek £50 before noon, £40 to 4pm, £25 after; Friday to Sunday £60, £50, £30; no visitor buggies for safety on the terrain; wooden tees preferred around livestock; clubs and trolleys for hire |
| Minchinhampton (Avening and Cherington) | Online visitor booking or [email protected] | Around £47 midweek and £57 weekends with a £15 twilight rate after 4pm per the club's published 2026 visitor information; two full championship courses on one estate |
| Minchinhampton (Old Course) | Online via the Old Course's own visitor pages | Common land golf reported around £35 in 2026; the common returns to public use on Sunday afternoons, and cattle graze May to October |
| Broadway | Pro shop on 01386 853275 | £70 weekdays, £75 weekends and bank holidays for 18 holes; 9 holes £42 and £45; county card and James Braid card £50 midweek; visitor buggies £32, no single seat three wheelers; weekends subject to availability |
Rates published by each club, fetched June 2026; Minchinhampton figures indicative. Check tee time availability.
Threading the golden stone weekend
The natural routing
The golf brackets the hills. Cleeve Hill and Broadway hold the northern escarpment twenty five minutes apart, both staring across the vale from the high ground, so they pair on consecutive mornings from a Broadway or Cheltenham base. Minchinhampton's three courses sit together above Stroud at the southern end, forty minutes down the spine road through the prettiest villages in England. Two nights, three rounds, no drive over an hour: that is the shape of the classic trip, and the Cotswolds golf holidays page turns it into beds and dinners.
The windows that actually fill
Weekend mornings are the only competitive slots in the region. Cleeve Hill's weekend sheet carries the premium and fills first in high summer, Broadway protects member time at weekends so visitor availability is genuinely subject to the sheet, and Minchinhampton Old simply closes to golf on Sunday afternoons when the common reverts to walkers and riders. Midweek, the Cotswolds are gloriously empty; the after 4pm rates at Cleeve Hill and Minchinhampton turn a summer evening into the best value golf south of Cumbria, a trick our twilight rates guide generalizes.
Common land, common sense
Two of the region's best courses are played across open common, which brings rules no other English golf trip teaches you: walkers have right of way, livestock get a wide berth and the occasional flagstick shadow, wooden tees are preferred at Cleeve Hill, and nobody hires you a buggy on that hillside, a walking fitness question to answer honestly before you book. The full etiquette picture, including what the clubs enforce indoors, is in our Cotswolds buggies and etiquette guide, and the regional fee math is in the Cotswolds green fee guide.
Plan your Cotswolds golf trip
Tell us roughly when and who is traveling, and one concierge books the escarpment pair and the Minchinhampton courses around the Sunday rules, then fixes the manor house beds in between. No obligation.
Cotswolds tee time questions
Do I need to book far ahead in the Cotswolds?
No, and that is the region's quiet luxury. These are welcoming clubs with online booking and same week availability outside summer weekends. Book Cleeve Hill's weekend mornings and Broadway's summer Sundays a few weeks out, fix everything else days ahead, and remember the one hard diary rule: Minchinhampton's Old Course gives the common back to the public on Sunday afternoons.
What does Cotswolds golf cost in 2026?
Cleeve Hill's published 2026 card runs from 25 pounds after 4pm midweek to 60 for a weekend morning. Broadway charges 70 pounds on weekdays and 75 at weekends, with county card and James Braid card rates of 50. Minchinhampton's two championship courses run around 47 midweek and 57 at weekends with a 15 pound twilight rate, and its Old Course on the common has been reported around 35. All fees are indicative; always confirm directly before booking.
Can I book Cotswolds courses online?
Mostly yes. Cleeve Hill sells visitor times through a BRS online system and Minchinhampton runs online visitor booking across its courses. Broadway books through the pro shop on 01386 853275, which is also the best route everywhere if your plans involve a society, a buggy or a tight weekend window.
What is different about playing on common land?
At Cleeve Hill and Minchinhampton Old you share the turf with walkers, riders and grazing livestock; cows roam Minchinhampton common from May to October. Walkers have right of way, animals get a wide berth, and Cleeve Hill asks for wooden tees rather than plastic because of the livestock. Cleeve Hill also hires no buggies to visitors for safety reasons on its terrain, so plan for the walk or choose another course.
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Researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk. Cleeve Hill's 2026 rate card and booking, buggy and tee policies and Broadway's rate card fetched direct from the clubs June 2026; Minchinhampton rates and Old Course common land arrangements per the club's published visitor information, June 2026, and marked indicative. Clubs change rates and windows, so always confirm directly before booking. Last reviewed June 2026.