Sheerness Golf Club

Sheerness Golf Club sits on the Isle of Sheppey, a flat, windswept strip of land off the north Kent coast where the Thames Estuary meets the southern edge of the North Sea. It's an island in the literal sense — connected to the mainland by a single bridge — and that geography shapes everything about the golf here. Wide open skies, salt-tinged air, and winds that shift without warning make club selection a constant conversation.

Links-adjacent layouts like this one, built on low-lying coastal ground, tend to reward players who keep the ball under the weather and think their way around rather than overpowering the course. Sheerness has the feel of a traditional English seaside club — unpretentious, community-rooted, and genuinely dependent on the elements to provide its defence.

Kent is well-served by golf, with Royal St George's and Prince's drawing the headlines further down the coast at Sandwich, but the island clubs quietly offer something different: a more everyday, local character that belongs to its members and its place.