The bricks lining the Festival of Speed startline are 100 years old and a gift from the Indianapolis Speedway "Brickyard" in 2011 to mark their centenary event!
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
The first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
According to Head Butler at Goodwood House David Edney "Class, sophistication and discretion".
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
The oldest existing rules for the game were drawn up for a match between the 2nd Duke and a neighbour
A huge variety of glassware is available for each wine, all labelled by grape type to give the best flavour profile.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
Legend of Goodwood's golden racing era and Le Mans winner Roy Salvadori once famously said "give me Goodwood on a summer's day and you can forget the rest".
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
The first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
The first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
One Summer, King Edward VII turned his back on the traditional morning suit, and donned a linen suit and Panama hat. Thus the Glorious Goodwood trend was born.
Goodwood Motor Circuit was officially opened in September 1948 when Freddie March, the 9th Duke and renowned amateur racer, tore around the track in a Bristol 400
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
According to Head Butler at Goodwood House David Edney "Class, sophistication and discretion".
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
The first thing ever dropped at Goodwood was a cuddly elephant which landed in 1932 just as the 9th Duke of Richmonds passion for flying was taking off.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
Just beyond Goodwood House along the Hillclimb, the 2nd Dukes banqueting house was also known as "one of the finest rooms in England" (George Vertue 1747).
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
Find out the latest from our Greenkeepers in this month's Tee to Green.
Firstly, I will mention the greens. Although the performance is still consistent, we have had an outbreak of a few diseases on the greens. Firstly, we have had a bit of anthracnose attack a few greens, mainly, 4,8,10 and 16. This was treated with a fungicide and a foliar feed of nitrogen to recover the areas. Also, we had rather large attack of Fusarium at the beginning of the month and this was on pretty much every green. This was mainly due to high humidity, heavy dews and inconsistent weather, where the disease popped up and we couldn’t spray for 4 days due to the heavy down pours we experienced during them day. If we spray a fungicide, it normally takes a good 6 hours to absorb into the plant, and applying this in wet weather would be a waste of time and money as it would just wash off with no beneficial action by the plant. These diseases have now been recovered and turf looks healthy again. We have also had a massive hit of disease on some of the tees and the 18th fairway. This has taken out most of the fescue grasses. We have applied a strong growth fertiliser to all these areas, plus overseeded and top dressed the 18th fairway. We have also applied a liquid feed to aid in the recovery, which seems to be working.
We have had some issues with flooding and bunker wash down due to the excessive rain. This has yet again contaminated the bunkers with chalk and compacted down the sand. Again, it is taking us longer to deal with this issue, as grass growth is still high and we are still continually cutting the playing surfaces more frequently than normal. We will start moving sand again and hope the weather plays ball.
The long rough is due to be cut by the farm team at the beginning of October. We have had to wait for the delivery of their new machine and hopefully it won’t take that much time to get the main areas cut and collected. This is the first time they will be doing this, so hopefully it works well and we can do it again in the spring as well to improve playability of these natural areas.
Forestry have been removing some of the dead trees in a few of the copse areas behind and also to the right of the 8th green, eft side of 13th hole and left side of the 16th hole / gazebo area. These are mainly ash trees and the wood will be taken away in due course to be used in the estates biomass boiler as part of the sustainability program.
Rob Dyer, Head Greenkeeper, The Downs Course
Another settled month weather wise, although not very good for our last event for the Estate this year, The Revival. Very good for the course though, fairways have come back strong and all areas damaged from Festival of Speed have now fully recovered.
We have also seen increased disease pressure with warm nights, heavy dew mornings, everything Fusarium (most common turf disease on golf greens) loves. It showed its ugly face (orange patches) just as it rained for 4 days straight, so we could not get the sprayer out until forecast was dry. Once fungicide went down it checked the disease, just in the nick of time, as we had major maintenance on the greens only a week away.
For greens maintenance we had ideal weather for the 2 days. We know we had the greens in great condition going into it and members always ask why we do it when there good? The reason why they are consistently good is because of essential maintenance and at right time!
September is good month for maintenance where we should have good recovery with temps still warm and odd shower or two. We welcomed back our good friend, Mark Kerr, and his GKB machine. It is the 3rd year running we have done this and we keep seeing massive improvements with the greens. We use 3mm blades at a 25mm depth which remove thatch and then fills with kiln dried sand. We approximately used 14 tonnes of sand then applied another 10 tons to get smooth finish. Greens were also verti-drained to 200mm depth before GKB. A foliar is sprayed after to aid recovery. We have already seen good recovery only after a week so we will be in good shape going into Autumn/Winter.
It is essential as said before we do this to improve the greens for next season and onwards. At the same time we also vert-drained the tees to relieve compaction after long summer of play.
The most complaints the team hear is about our natural areas, long rough. You will be pleased to know we will be cutting this down now. We cannot touch these areas during summer due to nesting birds and wild life. These areas have become thick and dense this year with unsettled weather, it may take longer to cut. Please be patient while tractor is out there, slow process, loud and a big machine to turn around. On plus side lots of lost golf balls to be found!
The Copse will be having a maintenance and hair cut as well. We have already done some test patches on long rough on some mounds with our much smaller cut and collect machine. We will complete this at the end of the month while doing greens maintenance. We will be doing a 13mm hollow core and then sand dress to fill the holes.
At the beginning of the month, we had The Junior Open and the Sussex Open 3 days on the bounce. Again, we are thankful to the team for coming in on the weekend to help prepare the course and for their hard work getting it into the best possible condition. The green was slightly slower than for Club Championship but weather was not on our side with rain both days but still quick and true.
As we head into Autumn/Winter we look back on a hugely successful season for the team, from Clutch Tour, Goodwoof to the Club Championship/Junior Open/Sussex Open with the Festival of Speed thrown in to the equation; plus not forgetting the opening of The Copse. Huge thanks to them and thanks for all the positive feedback from you, really motivates the team going forward.
See you on the course.
Scott Peterson, Deputy Head Greenkeeper, The Park Course
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