Very few courses can boast a tournament history on a par with Wentworth’s West Course. Designed by Harry Colt, the course opened in 1926 and many of the game’s great players from the last 80 years – legends such as Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Seve Ballesteros, Greg Norman, Nick Faldo, Ernie Els and Tiger Woods have played it. There are surely few more glorious natural settings for golf than this stretch of heathland surrounded by woodland of pine, oak and birch, the vibrant rhododendrons adding a splash of colour. The course is both easy on the eye and ideal for creating well-defined hole routings.

The challenge is a varied one, fairways turn both ways and there is a wonderful flow to the course, with pleasing elevation changes and a variety of different length par-3s, par-4s and par-5s. It is a design that has for decades proudly stood the test of time.

During 2005 and 2007 the course under went modernisation and restoration by Ernie Els, and involved extensive re-bunkering and lengthening of certain holes.