Home to award-winning James Braid golf course established in 1922, with 36 comfortable bedrooms.
Please note our kitchen and restaurant will be closed from 3rd to 15th January 2022. The hotel remains open and we will be selling Bed & Continental breakfast packages. The bar will still be open for drinks, including hot drinks.
If you are staying with us during this period and would like an alternative dining experience, we highly recommend our sister hotel, The Brudenell in Aldeburgh.
Or indulge in exotic Indian cooking and local craft beer in our atmospheric restaurant by the sea, Sea Spice, which is located at The White Lion in Aldeburgh.
Play, Eat, Relax
Dining at Thorpeness
Ogilvie's Grill House is our breath-taking ‘Tee View’ restaurant here at Thorpeness Golf Club & Hotel, open to all, serving a menu of Grill House classics, Head Chef David utilises the best of local Suffolk ingredients, providing the perfect protein for a trip around the course. Braid's Bar also serves food all day!
Par 70, 18 hole championship course
Play
Thorpeness is regarded as one of the finest coastal heathland golf courses in Britain, and one of the best golf courses in Suffolk. Golfers can expect a winding course, through heather, gorse, pine and silver birch trees, hitting from firm quick drying soil with rare birdsong in the ears and the tang of sea salt in the air.
James Braid Designed
course history
Scotsman James Braid was one of the greatest golf course designers in history. He respected nature and let the lie of the land dictate the path for his fairways, tees and greens. In 1922 Braid laid out a golf course on low lying heathland, just a stone's throw from the Suffolk coast in an area of outstanding natural beauty. His creation was Thorpeness Golf Club. To this day, James Braid’s Thorpeness is regarded as one of the finest coastal heathland golf courses in Britain.