Summary

The course has 9 holes played from two separate tee’s and measures 5,190 yards, par 66. It is a fair and enjoyable test for any level of golfer.
It is situated on extremely well drained soil and barring freak weather conditions it is open 52 weeks a year.

Founded in 1892, so the course is well matured, and has the feel of an inland links course, boasting some of the best laid greens in Surrey.

A three hole golf course was established by Hannibal Speer (born Hannibal Sandys) for his servants. The source of which can be found in an article written in "˜Thames Ditton Today’ (see below) in the winter of 1973.

Hannibal had inherited the Lordship of the manor of Weston a couple of stages removed from his grandfather William Speer (the younger) who bought it from the crown in 1801 along with its commons. William a rapacious purchaser of property acquired many other landholdings in the area to put with it.

The commons were sold by Hannibal’s heirs (the Litchfield-Speers ) For £360 to the then Esher and the Dittons Urban Council in 1920, five years after Hannibal died without issue. There’s a reference to that sale in “Esher-the Story of a council” by E. Royston Pike, available at Esher library or other Surrey Libraries. Pp 27-28, but no mention of the golf club in the selected text quoted by Royston Pike.

The golf club already had the leasehold of its course from Hannibal and it is likely that as with other lands that he `gave’ to the local community for its use, the lease was for 99 years (he always `gave’ land on leasehold not freehold!) A retired Weston Green councillor confirmed that the lease for the golf club came up for renewal in the 1990s, and this ties in with the golf club founded date of 1892.