Dormie
A private members' club · Founded 1921
The course keeps the score.
Eighteen holes cut into chalk downland — bentgrass greens, fescue rough, and a card that has settled arguments since 1921.
Dormie Golf & Country Club
Official Score Card · Est. 1921 · Chalk Downs
Select any hole to read the drawing · Standard Scratch 71
Hole Nº 07
The Gorse
Par 4 · 386 yds · S.I. 7
The captain's welcome
— minute book, vol. i, 1921
03The course
Eighteen holes on the downs.
Laid out in 1921 and barely touched since — the routing walks out along the beck, climbs to High Fescue, and brings every match home past the clubhouse windows.
Championship tees — 6,912 yards, par 72 · standard scratch 71 · hover — or tap — a hole to read it
Redrawn from the greenkeeper’s survey of 1926, and still argued over.
04Membership
Four categories. Stated in full.
Most clubs mumble about money. We print it — the joining fee, the year's dues, and the honest state of the list.
- Seven-day golf, no green fees
- Full privileges of the house
- Locker and trolley store
- The vote at the annual meeting
- Fourteen reciprocal clubs
The waiting list is real — about fourteen months at present. Every candidate is proposed and seconded by members of five years' standing.
- Seven-day golf, no green fees
- Full privileges of the house
- Academy coaching at the junior rate
- Converts to Full at 35 — joining fee credited
The committee holds forty places in this category and defends them at every meeting.
- The dining room, bar and terrace
- The pool, May to September
- Six racquets sessions a season
- Every fixture in the diary
Golf by invitation of a playing member, four rounds a season. Many never take the fifth.
- The academy, Saturday mornings
- Holiday camps, spring and summer
- The course after three o'clock
- Range balls, without limit
No joining fee, and a parent need not be a member. Ability decides, and always has.
Figures for the 2026 season, inclusive of VAT and the course levy. No debentures, no entrance ballot fee, no hidden subscriptions. Reviewed each April and printed here first.
05
The house
More than the golf.
06
The diary
The year has fixtures.
The diary is the club — golf is merely its excuse.
SAT 11 APR
The Captain's Drive-In
Social
SAT 02 MAY
The Spring Medal
Competition
FRI 12 JUN
Ladies' Invitational
Competition
MON 27 JUL
Junior Camp Week
Juniors
SAT 15 AUG
The Summer Ball
Social
SAT 05 SEP
The Club Championship
Competition
SUN 15 NOV
The Frost Series
Competition
FRI 01 JAN
New Year's Foursomes
Social
07The club, in figures
1921
Established
Nine holes at first; the second nine by 1926.
18
Holes
Bentgrass greens, fescue rough, chalk under all of it.
6,912
Yards
From the championship tees, par 72.
212
Acres
Downland, beechwood and the beck.
63
Course record
R. Halliday, the Club Championship, 2019.
08The racquets & the juniors
The next fifty years are already practising.
The racquets pavilion went up in 2024 and was full by June — padel on Thursdays, grass courts for the summer eights, and a ladder nobody will admit to checking twice a day. The junior academy has a room of its own, a door to the practice ground, and first claim on Saturday mornings.
A club that only plays golf is a museum with a bar. This one is noisier, younger, and better for it — the waiting list says so.
4
Padel courts, laid 2024
61
Juniors in the academy
9
County colours since 2019
Membership is by application.
Every candidate is proposed and seconded by members of five years' standing. If golf brought you here alone, the secretary will gladly make the introductions — that is half her art.