Southwick Park Golf Course

Southwick Park Golf Club is an 18-hole parkland course located at Pinsley Drive in Southwick, Hampshire, close to Portsmouth, Fareham and the M27. The course was designed by Charles Lawrie and opened in 1977, built on land known as the Hundred Acres to the south of Southwick House. Construction was funded partly through grants from naval sources, including the closure of golf courses at naval bases in Singapore, contributions from fleet wardrooms and grants from the Sailor's Fund. Until 1994 the club was managed through the Commanding Officer of HMS Dryad, the Royal Navy shore establishment at Southwick Park, after which it transitioned to a membership-elected committee operating under a lease from the Ministry of Defence. The course plays to a par of 69 over approximately 5,861 yards from the back tees, with a course rating of 68.5 and a slope of 129.

The layout occupies a mature estate parkland setting centred around a lake, which was created in the early nineteenth century during landscaping works associated with Southwick House. Water features prominently throughout the round, with the lake and a network of streams and drainage ditches crossing several holes and requiring careful course management. The course is not long by modern standards and rewards accuracy and strategic thinking over power. Notable design elements include several doglegs, particularly at the 4th and 9th holes, and a selection of well-regarded par threes of which the 7th is frequently singled out. The 15th and 16th holes are set against the remains of Southwick Priory, a twelfth-century monastic structure dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538, providing an historically distinctive backdrop.

Southwick Park carries a separate historical distinction in that the grounds of Southwick House, adjacent to the course, served as the headquarters from which General Eisenhower planned the D-Day landings in 1944.