Group Golf Holidays in Southern England

The hardest part of any group trip isn’t the golf — it’s the admin. Sixteen names, sixteen handicaps, who shares with whom, three courses on three different days, who’s paying and when. Hand all of it to one person.

Your Golf Planet Holidays specialist becomes the single point of contact for the entire trip. They hold the tee times, build the rooming list, arrange transfers between your hotel and each course, and balance your fourballs so the four-handicapper and the twenty-eight-handicapper both have a good day. When something changes — a late drop-out, an extra round, a request to move a tee time forward — you message one person who already knows your group, not a call centre.

If you’d rather not lead the trip at all, ask about our hosted group tours: an escort travels with you, runs the on-course logistics and keeps the days moving, so even the organiser plays every round as a guest. It’s the difference between herding the group and being part of it.

Southern England packs a remarkable range of golf into a small footprint, which is exactly what a group wants — variety without long coach transfers between rounds.

Dale Hill Golf Club in East Sussex sits at the heart of many of our group trips, with two contrasting courses and a hotel on site so the bar is never more than a short walk from the eighteenth. From there, a cluster of classic tests is within easy reach: Crowborough Beacon, a high heathland course with sweeping views across the Sussex Weald; Cooden Beach, a genuine seaside links right on the coast where the wind decides your score; East Sussex National, a championship-pedigree resort layout that has hosted the European Tour; and Piltdown Golf Club, a beautifully natural fenceless heathland course that rewards thinking golfers.

That mix — heathland, downland and links inside a few days — gives a group of eight to sixteen the kind of week where every round feels different and everyone has a favourite by the end.

The right base for a golf group is somewhere that handles a crowd well, pours a decent pint and doesn’t mind golf shoes in the corridor. We build group trips around three across the region.

Dale Hill Hotel & Golf Club in East Sussex keeps everything on one site — play, eat, sleep and gather, with the courses on the doorstep. Hanbury Manor Marriott in Hertfordshire brings a country-house resort feel and a championship course within the grounds, an easy choice for groups coming out of London. Old Thorns Hotel & Resort in Hampshire offers resort-scale rooms, a spa for the non-golfers in the party and plenty of space for a large group to spread out in the evening.

Your specialist matches the hotel to your group’s size and mood — a focused golf base, a full resort, or somewhere in between — and prices the stay-and-play from £175 per person.

Every Golf Planet Holidays trip is ATOL Protected, and your money is held in trust with the PTS scheme until you’ve travelled — so the deposit your group pots together is safe right up to the moment you’re standing on the first tee. For a group splitting costs across a dozen people, that protection matters.

For golf societies travelling from the United States, Southern England is one of the most rewarding and accessible group destinations in Britain — historic courses, walkable bases and short transfers between rounds, all within easy reach of London’s airports. We bill in GBP, which currently works in your favour against the dollar, and flights can be added to your tailor-made itinerary as an ATOL-protected arrangement. One specialist still handles the ground game — tee times, hotels and transfers — so your group lands and plays without a single logistics headache.