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Chigwell Golf Club sits in the Essex village of the same name, just inside the M25 on the northeastern edge of Greater London. The area is classic Home Counties commuter-belt countryside — rolling, lightly wooded, the kind of quiet English pastoral that feels a world away from the capital despite being barely 12 miles from its centre. Essex golf at this end of the county tends toward parkland layouts, and Chigwell fits that tradition comfortably.
Without access to verified details on the club's founding, architect, or specific holes, what can be said with confidence is that a par-71 parkland course of this vintage and location will typically reward placement and course management over raw power. Mature trees define corridors, seasonal ground conditions shift the challenge considerably, and the short game tends to matter enormously on tighter English parkland layouts where greens can be subtly contoured and approach angles punishing.
Chigwell the village itself has a literary footnote — Dickens set Barnaby Rudge partly here — and the broader Epping Forest fringe gives the area a distinctive green character that any course rooted in this landscape shares.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White · men | 6,309 | 71.3 | 138 | 71 |
| Yellow · men | 5,945 | 69.3 | 133 | 71 |
| Red - 2018 · women | 5,527 | 73 | 135 | 72 |
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