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 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 the Ring and they command the whole stretch of the Channel from Beachy Head to the Isle of Wight.