Ashbourne Golf Club Course and Scorecard Details

Ashbourne Golf Club publishes separate scorecards and handicap tables for its Blue, White, Gold (Ladies) and White (Women's) courses, all accessible from the main site navigation. If you want to know which tees exist, how the course is set up, or where to find the handicap tables before a round, the site groups these under "Scorecard" and "Handicap Tables" rather than burying them in a single download.

The course itself

Ashbourne is an 18-hole Championship Parkland Course designed by Declan Branigan Design and Ryder Cup Vice-Captain Des Smyth, and it opened in 1994. A redesign of the front nine was completed in 2019, which the club describes as enhancing the challenge for all golfers.

Two design points matter when you read a scorecard here:

• Course management is a stated consideration on every hole. In practice this means the card is worth reading hole by hole rather than treating it as a list of yardages — decisions off the tee and into greens are part of the design intent.
• The greens are sand-based. Sand-based greens typically drain faster and can play firmer, so approach shots and short game behave differently than on heavier soil. The club presents this as "a further dimension to the golfing experience."

Scorecards by course

The site lists scorecards under these headings:

The White Course appears twice — once as a general White Course and once as White Course (Women's) — so women playing the white tees should check the women's version rather than assuming the standard white card applies.

The source material does not publish the individual hole yardages, pars, or stroke indexes, so those need to be read from the scorecard pages themselves.

Handicap tables

Handicap tables are published alongside the scorecards, under the same "Handicap Tables" heading, and are broken out by the same course set: Blue Course, White Course, Gold (Ladies) Course, and White Course (Women's). If you are working out your playing handicap or checking a score for handicap purposes, use the table that matches the tees you actually played.

Other course-related pages on the site

• Golf Hole Flyovers — visual previews of the holes, useful before a first visit.
• Practice Facilities — what is available for warm-up or practice.
• Proshop — the club's pro shop.
• Visitors and Visitor Booking — for arranging a round as a non-member.
• Societies and Open Event Booking — for group and open competitions.
• Membership — membership information.
• Juniors — junior golf.

Practical notes

The club states it is only 8 minutes from the M50 off Junction 5, which is the main access detail given for planning travel.

Recent Google reviews quoted on the site (2025) describe it as a "premium golf course, well maintained and a good price," and separately praise the food and service in the clubhouse, which is housed in the original farmhouse. These are visitor impressions rather than course data, but they are the only quality signals published on the page.

What to check before you play

1. Confirm which tees you are playing — Blue, White, Gold (Ladies), or White (Women's).
2. Open the matching scorecard for yardages and par.
3. Open the matching handicap table if you need your playing handicap.
4. Use the hole flyovers if you have not played the course before, since course management is emphasized in the design.
5. If you are visiting rather than a member, go through the Visitors or Visitor Booking pages rather than the members' area.

The site does not publish green fees, tee-time prices, or booking restrictions in the material available here, so those specifics need to be confirmed directly through the booking pages or the club.