About Tube to Tee

An independent guide to affordable golf around London you can reach by Tube or train. Where can I play this weekend, how much is it, and how do I get there?

Data & methodology

• Coverage: 78 courses (47 with a published weekend visitor fee) across London, Essex and Hertfordshire.
• Fees are standard weekend visitor green fees for 18 holes (unless stated), taken only from the club's or operator's own website and checked on 10 Oct 2026. We never estimate a fee. If no fee is published, we show “price on request”.
• Journey times default to London Liverpool Street. If you set your own starting point, we estimate the time by taking the quickest of 20 London hubs: the time to reach the hub plus a Saturday-morning TfL Journey Planner time from that hub to the course (TfL open data, fetched October 2026). Tested against real planner times from 8 London postcodes, estimates are typically within 5–7 minutes, and 90% are within about 15 minutes. They are estimates, not live timetables, so check Citymapper or Google Maps before you travel.
• Ratings are Google and Golfshake summary scores captured in Oct 2026.
• Images are original generated illustrations. We use no club photos. Maps use OpenFreeMap / OpenStreetMap data.
• Saved courses are stored only in your browser. There are no accounts.

How we rate courses (quality score)

Each course gets a 0–10 quality score for a typical club golfer, built only from public data:

• Golfshake reviews (50%): average rating shrunk toward 3.8/5 as if it had 20 extra reviews, so a handful of reviews can't swing it, then doubled to a 10-point scale.
• Google reviews (20%): shrunk toward 4.2/5 worth 100 reviews; full weight only from 50 reviews.
• Challenge (20%): yardage from the back tees (6,300+ yds = 10; 6,000 = 8; 5,700 = 6; 5,400 = 4; shorter = 2).
• Pedigree (10%): a national or county ranking listing = 10, a notable sourced designer = 7, otherwise a neutral 5.

Missing parts are dropped and the rest re-weighted; nothing is guessed. A course with no public reviews is shown as “Not rated yet”. Tiers come from the spread of scores: Premium 8.3+, Great 7.7–8.2, Solid 6.9–7.6, Basic below 6.9. Quality is kept separate from price: use the “Best value” sort for quality per pound. Each course page shows its breakdown with sources.

Independence

Not affiliated with Transport for London or any golf club. Any sponsored listing or affiliate link will be clearly labelled. None are live.