Branston Golf & Country Club, UK*

The new course at Branston, designed by Jonathan Gaunt in 1999, opened for play in October 2001. The course, which lies in the River Trent floodplain, was extended from 18 to 27-holes, to create an 18-hole layout of over 6600 yards, plus a new 9-hole par-30 academy course which offers challenges to every level of golfer.

The project was extremely difficult to get planning consent for - allowing modification to existing ground levels by only +/- 0.45m. However, with clever design and remodelling techniques and an imaginative shaper, a dramatic result was achieved.

Burstwick Country Golf, UK*

Five years of careful planning and hard work have resulted in the completion of an 18-hole high quality “pay-and-play” golf course project at Burstwick Country Golf designed by Jonathan Gaunt, with the first nine holes being built in 2002/3 (which opened for play in 2004), followed by the second nine in 2005. There are some really challenging holes, where water will come into play as part of the design strategy, tripling up as holding lagoons (collection points for neutralising drainage water from greens and tees where fertilisers have been applied) and also as positive drainage outlets on a site where the high tides in the Humber Estuary can have quite an impact.

The course design has made the most of the limited changes in level – only 7 metres from the lowest to the highest points. The 18-hole layout opened for full play in August 2007.

Chiddingfold Golf Club, UK

This 18-hole course was designed and built by Jonathan Gaunt in 1992/3 on a compact site in undulating Surrey/Sussex “Weald” land on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The site presented numerous difficult drainage problems – running sand, heavy clay and limited topsoil, but the result is a stunning course which has been referred to as a “masterpiece of compact design”. The course opened for play in 1994 and has proven to be very popular for golfers of all levels.

Magnolia Park Golf Club, UK

This championship standard 18-hole private members course was designed by Jonathan Gaunt and opened for play in 1998. With thoughtful design of the golf course featuring and fairway shaping, together with an intensive drainage system the course is playable to a very high standard year-round.

It has exceptional practice facilities – 250m driving range and 9-hole academy course, with large scale, “Anglo-American” style featuring, and at over 7000 yards in length, it is already a qualifying venue for major regional professional competitions.

Oakland Park Golf Club, UK

Set in a secluded corner of Buckinghamshire, on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, this short but demanding 18-hole course was designed and built by Jonathan Gaunt in 1993/4 on land which had previously been farmed as cattle pasture and orchards. The course features many water features, blocks of mature native woodland and chalk grassland characteristics typical of the Chiltern Hills landscape.

Ring of Kerry Golf & Country Club, Republic of Ireland*

This 18-hole course is probably in one of the most spectacular settings in the UK and Ireland, overlooking, as it does, Kenmare Lake, and in the distance the dramatic peaks of the Macgillicuddy Reeks. The course was built in 1996 (to an Eddie Hackett design) and when it opened for play in 1998 the owner considered the greens to be too heavily contoured and too demanding.

Jonathan Gaunt redesigned the greens and supervised their construction over a six month period. All were designed with limited falls (between 1%-3%) to make them both easier to play and maintain. They were all either seeded or turfed and brought into play on schedule in summer 2000.

"Famed for its spectacular scenery, its VIP playing guest list and the intoxicating hospitality of the Kerry people, the Ring of Kerry Golf and Country Club has now established itself as the "must play" course of any golfer visiting Ireland's south west".
- Ring of Kerry Golf & Country Club website.

Silkstone Golf Club, UK*

This project involved the redevelopment of the existing 18-hole course at Silkstone Golf Club in South Yorkshire. The work comprised the construction of 7 new holes on dramatically undulating farmland, adjacent to the existing 18-hole course, along with the remodelling of a further four holes to eradicate historic safety problems and steep climbs

The new 18-hole layout, designed by Jonathan Gaunt, overcame problems associated with public footpaths and bridleways, badger setts, and archaeological artefacts in the form of “a mediaeval ridge and furrow” farming system. The new course measures 6648 yards with a par of 73. Arguably, it will have some of the most challenging golf holes in Yorkshire.

Swaffham Golf Club, UK*

This course was extended from 9 to 18 holes, designed by Jonathan Gaunt and built on sandy heathland in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in a region in North Norfolk known as the "Breck’s". This area was heavily planted in the mid part of 20th century with coniferous forest, and as a result the characteristics of the new 18-hole course are predominantly pine tree-lined fairways with large swathes of native heather, gorse and wild fescue grasses.

The new 9-hole course extension is probably the only new heathland course built in England in recent years. The course opened for play in September 2001, extending the course to a challenging 6500 yards over undulating free-draining ground.

Willow Valley Golf & Country Club, UK

Located in the Pennines between Huddersfield, Leeds and Manchester, this course was built in 1995/6 on a very challenging and exposed site, which was formerly a dairy farm. There are now 45 holes, although only the 18-hole South Championship course was designed by Jonathan Gaunt. The 7100 yard, par 72 course has many characteristic features of the rugged landscape with water coming into play on 9 holes.