Essendon Country Club (New Course)

Overview: Essendon’s New Course is the younger of the club’s two 18-hole layouts on a roughly 450-acre estate in Hertfordshire. It is presented as a parkland course, with the wider property giving the holes room to move through open ground and established landscape. The course was constructed in 1992 and forms the modern companion to the Fred Hawtree Old Course. Current sources confirm the New Course as a separate routing, but do not publish a stable architect, par or yardage for it, so those fields remain blank.

History: The New Course was built after the Old Course and helped establish Essendon as a two-course country club. The club’s current site confirms that both courses are part of the same estate operation, while the construction record supplies 1992 for the New Course. The precise opening date and designer are not stated consistently enough in the reviewed material to turn them into profile facts. Keeping the history concise and sourced avoids transferring the Old Course’s Hawtree attribution to its newer neighbour.

Did You Know? Essendon’s two courses sit on one large estate but have different design histories. The New Course is therefore a distinct second routing rather than a later copy of the Hawtree layout. Its 1992 construction date places it in a different era of course development, while the shared estate keeps the two rounds connected by the same Hertfordshire landscape.