International real estate advisor Savills is marketing Merrist Wood Golf Club in Guildford, on behalf of the Fixed Charge Receiver at a guide price of £2.25 million.
The 18-hole, 6,909-yard, par 72 championship golf course was designed by the highly regarded golf architect David Williams. As well as the golf course, the site also includes practice facilities and a purpose-built. 8,177 sq ft clubhouse, set in 210.49 acres. The course, which benefits from a gentle south facing slope, four lakes and numerous areas of mature woodlands and hedgerows, was voted by Golf World as one of the UK’s top ten new courses constructed in the 1990s.
More recently the owners have been seeking planning permission to re-contour the landscape and re-model the golf course to an enhanced design which has been created in conjunction with leading European Tour professional golfer Sam Torrance. As a result of this process, since the autumn of 2023 only 9 holes have been maintained to a basic but playable standard, with the remaining 9 holes closed but maintained as a golf landscape. The clubhouse is also in need of upgrading.
Merrist Wood Golf Club is situated on Holly Lane in Fairlands near the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and approximately four miles northwest of Guildford.
Kay Griffiths, a director in leisure and trade related team at Savills, comments: “Merrist Wood Golf Course is a substantial landholding in a prime Surrey location with potential to be re-launched as a mature 18-hole golf course or alternatively put to a variety of alternative uses, subject to obtaining the required planning permission. We anticipate substantial interest from a diverse range of potential buyers as opportunities of this nature rarely arise in such an attractive location.”