The Ashbury Golf Hotel

Golf courses at the Ashbury Golf Hotel

The Ashbury Golf Hotel has a total of five golf courses (Oakwood, Pines, Beeches, Willows and Kigbeare), each with eighteen holes. With dozens of bunkers and eighteen lakes, play is challenging..

The Kigbeare course is the longest in Ashbury. The holes are nicely shaped by 6000 trees. Many holes have purpose-built alternative greens, allowing play to continue even in bad weather.

The courses are open all year round.

Course reviews: Have been on holiday here for 3 of the last 4 years. and will continue to come back.
3 x 18 hole golf courses, the Oakwood, Pines and Beeches. These courses contain some truly amazing (and bl**dy challenging) holes. Definitely set up for the "thinking" golfer as oppose to the big hitters. All 3 courses are under 6000 yards. Don't let the lack of yardage make you think these are easy courses. there are so many blind tee shots, lakes, bunkers, ditches, hedges etc... you really do have to plot your way round.
My personal favourite hole is the oakwood 12th.. a 417 yard par 4, with a 72ft downhill dog-leg to the left. your drive needs to ideally be around the 220+ mark (avoiding the tree in the middle of the fairway!!!) then you have a choice with your approach shot, either land one on the brow of the hill letting it bounce/roll down to the green. or fly one all the way to the green, praying you dont come up short...hit the downslope..and shoot straight through the green.
My only small gripe is the greens. The grass on them seems a little long.
Definitely a golf complex worth a visit.
J. Jack January 16, 2005
Having been to the Ashbury for a number of years I have seen the golf provision improve phenominally!
The four main courses are well maintained (greens can be a little fluffy because the need to keep them long due to the high traffic) and they are constantly striving to improve the courses, adding viewing podiums for safety, providing great hole information at the tees and continuously improving teeing areas and greens.
The real triumph however is the new Kigbear course. You cannot fail but be impressed by the holes that have been created. The views are amazing, the variety of hole is impressive, the greens are monstrous in size with plateaus creating some really testing putts, all adding up to some really challenging and entertaining golf.
The "signature hole" at the moment is the beautiful 3rd however when the 16th opens (I gather pretty soon) it could well take that honour, I fully intend another visit if only to play that hole!
Kris Whitmore April 13, 2007

Activities at The Ashbury Golf Hotel

Activities

Golf Courses

Tel: 0800 1977611

Fax: 01837 55027

Email: enquiries@manorhousehotel.co.uk

Website: http://www.manorashbury.co.uk/

Address: The Manor House Hotel, Nr Okehampton, Fowley Cross, Devon, EX20 4NA

Travelling distance from Home Farm Hotel (nearest mile): 51

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