Hassocks Golf Club

Hassocks sits in the Sussex Weald just north of the South Downs, a village in East Sussex within easy reach of both Brighton to the south and Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath to the north. The surrounding landscape is typical of this part of Sussex, with the chalk ridge of the Downs rising sharply along the southern skyline and gentler, wooded farmland spreading out to the north and west. The village grew as a railway settlement in the nineteenth century, its station giving it a direct line into Brighton and onward to London, and that connectivity has shaped its development into a commuter village within reach of the coast. Golf in this corner of East Sussex tends to make use of either the open downland to the south or the softer, more wooded country inland, and clubs in the area benefit from the contrast between the two landscapes within a short drive of one another. Hassocks' position, close to the foot of the Downs and within a similar radius of both Brighton and the Sussex countryside further north, places it firmly within this golf-rich stretch of the county, where the terrain shifts quickly from open chalk grassland to sheltered, tree-lined valleys.