Sonning Golf Club

Sonning Golf Club is laid out on Duffield Road at Sonning-on-Thames, a village on the River Thames just outside Reading in Berkshire. The 18-hole course extends a little beyond 6,000 yards, with a back nine that plays noticeably harder than the front, built around a run of par fours over 400 yards. Greens on the course are kept firm and quick rather than soft, a characteristic both regular players and visiting societies tend to mention. The club hosts society and corporate golf days, along with functions and celebrations held at the venue away from the course itself, and offers online booking for visiting golfers alongside its membership programme. Sonning-on-Thames is one of the older riverside villages on this stretch of the Thames, with a history predating the golf club by many centuries and a setting that has long drawn visitors out from Reading and the wider Thames Valley. The clubhouse and bar have built a local reputation for a good range of beers alongside typical golf-day catering. Visitors reach the club a short distance from the centre of Reading, on the Berkshire side of the river close to the Oxfordshire boundary.