Brighton & Hove has five golf courses, and a round starts at £28

Brighton and Hove has five golf courses, and the cheapest 18 holes is £28 midweek at Hollingbury Park, according to GolfSay, a new golf directory for the city. The dearest is £70 midweek at Dyke Golf Club.

The Shingle and golfsay.com have the same owner. The directory lists venues for free, copies each fee from the club’s own website and shows the date it was checked, which for these prices was 31 October 2026. Fees at most clubs change in April, so check before you book.

Hollingbury is the city’s pay and play course, with no membership or handicap needed. A round is £28 midweek, £37 at weekends and £22 for a midweek twilight round. Parking is free, but it runs on number-plate cameras, so give your registration to the pro shop or bar.

The members’ clubs take visitors, on their own terms, according to GolfSay’s^1,2,3,4,5,6 visitors guide. Brighton & Hove Golf Club is the nine-hole option, with visitors from 12pm every day, pre-booked. Nine holes there is £27.50 on a weekday and 18 is £42. East Brighton is £50 midweek. Dyke asks visitors to book up to two weeks ahead, and West Hove has weekday mornings and weekend afternoons.

The city has one driving range. West Hove Golf Club in Hangleton has 20 Trackman bays, takes no bookings and charges £12 for 100 balls.

Winter is less of a problem here than in much of the country. Brighton’s downland courses sit on chalk, which drains, and Dyke, East Brighton, Brighton & Hove and West Hove all say they stay playable through winter, according to the winter guide. Golfers’ reviews quoted on GolfSay back that up for East Brighton, where a January 2026 Golfshake reviewer wrote that the course “drains so well and is always open”.

That reviews section is the directory’s other half. Each venue page groups short, dated quotes from review sites by theme, such as greens, pace of play and how visitors are treated, with a link to every quote. Each course also gets a GolfSay Score out of 10, which its method page says is built only from other sites’ ratings, rescaled so they can be compared. Dyke scores highest in the city.

Golfers willing to drive have more choice. GolfSay also lists courses within about 35 minutes’ drive, from Pyecombe, about 12 minutes away, to Seaford Head and Worthing. Waterhall golf course closed on 31 March 2020, the council says.