Hankley Common Golf Club

Hankley Common Golf Club is located near Farnham, close to the Surrey-Hampshire border, in an area of sandy heathland that has long supported this style of inland golf course. The ground around Farnham sits on well-drained sandy soils, historically covered in heather, gorse and pine, conditions that also underpin several of the other well-known heathland courses clustered across west Surrey and the Hampshire border country. Farnham itself is a historic market town with roots going back to Saxon times, sitting along the River Wey where the chalk of the North Downs gives way to the sandier Lower Greensand ridge running through this part of the county. That geological boundary matters for golf in the area, since the sandy Greensand ground drains far more readily than the clay and chalk found elsewhere in Surrey, allowing heathland courses here to remain playable through wetter periods when other inland courses might be closed. Hankley Common sits within this heathland cluster, part of a wider concentration of similarly-styled courses stretching from Woking and Camberley down through Farnham toward the Hampshire border, all shaped by the same sandy Greensand geology underlying the region.