Seven 18 hole golf course options - Oakwood, Kigbeare, Beeches, Pines, Forest, Ashbury and Willows with dozens of bunkers and eighteen lakes making play even more of a challenge.
Yardage
Off the whites
Kigbeare: 6474
Pines: 6400
Forest: 6140
Ashbury: 5804
Beeches: 5765
Oakwood: 5400
Willows (Par 3 Course): 2018
Pines-Forest-Ashbury - The 27 hole combination course is made up of 3 nine hole courses - Pines, Forest and Ashbury. Two of these are played to give three separate 18 hole courses and this allows the Club to maximise the tee off times available during the peak periods of the day.
Par
72-72-71-69-69-67-54
Visitors
The
courses are open throughout the year.
Societies
Parties
are advised to advance book tee times to ensure the party tees off en-bloc. Midweek packages available.
Green
Fees
C Weekdays/weekends
Some free golf on all breaks.
Course
Designer
DJ Fensom
Kigbeare course:
Completed
April 2009
Location
The
Ashbury Golf Hotel is set in 500 acres of rolling Devon countryside at the foot
hills of Dartmoor National Park, just off the A 3079 (signposted 'Ashbury'), approximately
2 miles from the junction of the A 3079 and the A 386.
Map
Facilities
• Driving range (see information below), 18 hole putting green, and chipping
and putting practice area
• Limited stock of "shower proof" buggies also available
• Snooker
- 12 full size, 2 three quarter size and 1 half size table, ten-pin bowling,
games room & indoor bowls hall, heated indoor swimming Pool, spa bath and
sauna, outdoor tennis court etc...
• Golf Tuition / Coaching group sessions take place on the driving range.
"The new Kigbeare course (Opened 2007) is the longest of the courses here at Ashbury. Set in the grounds
of Kigbeare Manor adjacent to our existing courses the holes make excellent use of the rolling pasture, natural woodlands and plantations. We have also transplanted
some 6000 trees to shape and define the holes.
The third hole is a dramatic par 3 of 205 yards from the white tees. The hole drops approximately 50 feet to a large green surrounded by trees and protected by a brook running around the
front of the green. The sixteenth hole is another breathtaking hole. A 546 yard par five. After teeing off over a large pond, the fairway runs uphill to a tree in the middle of the fairway then drops down approximately 100 feet to a well guarded green."
Exc. from Ashbury's own website
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
For a golf tour this is a superb venue. The website is very honest. It is about the extent of golf available and not the hotel. I wouldn't take my wife here for leisure break but for a tour it is perfect. Great value for money. Rooms are clean with controllable heating for drying clothes quickly. On a negative they insist you only use the buggy paths which waste a lot of time. Perhaps in the summer they let you use the path until the position of the ball and then drive on the fairway which would be better, we played in a wet spring so the rule was understandable. The practise range and putting greens are completely inadequate though only 8 driving bays and a very short range. For the number of courses this element must be improved. Best course is Oakland and Kigbaire but all are good and challenging whilst remaining playable. The local rule of dropping out from tree plantations is excessive on some of the more established tree areas as there is no penalty but again understandable for new trees. The bar/restaurant is like an old clubhouse and coud do with a freshen up and it shuts way too early at 12 midnight given that 99% of the guests are men on golf weekends. Golf buggies are very cheap at £10 for a round and
beer and wine in the restaurant is also fairly priced. These niggles are very minor though. Superb. Rob Darrow April 14, 2008
Have just spent 3 days at Ashbury, this was our 3rd visit and did not fail in our expectations - we last played in 2006 the new course layouts are superb, staff as friendly as ever! Courses in good condition and as challenging as ever, special note must go to the Kigbeare 3rd and 16th - play and enjoy!!
But you must give this venue a try.. Nicki Tipping June 21, 2008
There isn't enough I can say about this venue and it deserves an update.
There are now three 18 hole courses and 3x9 combo as well as an 18 hole pitch and putt.
The hotel is on site and is a very good, clean and efficient 2 star. But hey, it has clean beds, TV, tea and coffee, shower/bath and you aren't there to spend time in your room.
The food is outstanding with a buffet breakfast of everything from fruit, cereals and the full English. Lunch lasts practically all day, as people are coming off the course at all times, and provides a good range of all foods including loads of carb loaded alternatives for the afternoon battle. Dinner is table d'hote and again many choices with a free bottle of wine between two, three times a week.
After dinner there are thirteen snooker tables, pool tables, indoor bowls, mini 10 pin, PS2's galore or just relax in front of the Sky TV and very reasonable bar (GBP2.80 a pint last year which is very good as it is a captured clientele). To be picky here, the chairs need badly replacing, but that's a minor point. Onto the golf, all the first tees are a driver's distance from the centre and the 300 buggies are very cheap (free sometimes).
Kigbeare course has already been mentioned, the par 3 3rd and par 5 16th with a 180 foot drop over the last 180 yards, but the 1st (265 yards straight downhill) and the 4th (driveable over the trees with a 5 wood, but probably not for much longer as the branches grow) also deserve a mention.
Oakwood is a little 'samey' over the holes 2-7 but the 11th and downhill 12th (2nd shot blind) are impressive. Beeches provides some head scratching holes - 4th; either sideways massively down the hill or risk a three wood at the distant green 365 (?) yards away (if you can draw your driver a long way you might reach it, or the forest) Another hole, I can't remember which one, is about 300 yards away and the only real option is to go for it as the whole (and I mean all) of the fairway slopes hugely from right to left so any second shot is played with the ball above your knees. The 15th is often the source of much hilarity. 150 yard across a dale onto a three tiered green where the flag is always in the middle one.
Any putt from the bottom not reaching the middle tier will invariably roll back past you and any putt from the top tier across the green will end up in the same place. Six or seven putts is not uncommon. V funny for all but one of you.
Of the combo course I play Pines and Forest every time. Very picturesque and varied.
The greens were a bit poor but have improved over the four years I have been going there (played at the same time each year).
At the heart of it all are the booking staff who if they weren't up to their job, the whole system would fall apart.
Oh, and I would take my wife there, as there is a heated swimming pool twin jaccuzzi and double steam room. And at the sister hotel down the road there are all sports to be played from tennis, squash, badminton, hiking, horse riding, air rifle, archery.
Value For Money: Good
Mark: 10/10 Jerry Bolton
Driving Range
Hours
8am-10pm
Bays
8
Covered
8
Heated
0
Automatic Teeing
0
Floodlit
8
Prices
Tokens are available from the Golf Shop for £1-50 and release approximately fifty balls from the machine on the range.
