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Of all of the Downland courses, Worthing Lower Course is widely regarded as the most interesting and the best test of golf. The course is first class and is lifted out of the ordinary by the magnificent series of holes coming just before the turn in the picturesque valley known as Deep Bottom, under the shoulder of Cissbury Ring.
The Lower Course is not absolutely typical of Downland golf. When the Club decided, soon after the First World War, to lay out a second eighteen-hole course, they called in the famous golf architect Mr H S Colt to redesign the whole scheme. In place of the original course of 1905, he contrived with great ingenuity to layout the Lower Course, for the most part along the valley and the Upper Course on the ridges above.
View the Lower Course which includes the Course Layout.
The Upper Course provides an interesting contrast to the main course. With a total length of 5211 yards against the 6505 yards of the Lower, it is much less exacting test for the handicap player; but as it is on a smaller scale, it allows correspondingly less margin for error, and its exposed situation on the ridges gives full effect to every wind that blows.
Both courses command a magnificent view of the English Channel, but the finest viewpoint is provided by the holes around the turn on the Upper Course which are laid out on the ridge of Mount Carvey leading up to Cissbury Ring. They command the whole stretch of the Channel from Beachy Head to the Isle of Wight.
View the Upper Course which includes the Course Layout.
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