The Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
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!
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.
Every single item from plates to pictures has its own home within the Lodge, with our butler (James) has his own "bible" to reference exactly what is out of place.
Easy boy! The charismatic Farnham Flyer loved to celebrate every win with a pint of beer. His Boxer dog, Grogger, did too and had a tendancy to steal sips straight from the glass.
The Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
The Fiat S76 or "Beast of Turin" is a Goodwood favourite and can usually be heard before it is seen at #FOS
For the last two years, 5,800 bales have been recylced into the biomass energy centre to be used for energy generation
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".
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
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
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
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
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.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
The origins of the collection lay in the possessions of Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, and Duchess of Aubigny in France, to whom some of the paintings originally belonged.
As the private clubhouse for all of the Estate’s sporting and social members, it offers personal service and a relaxed atmosphere
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 Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
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!
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.
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.
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
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).
James Braid, creator of Goodwood’s iconic Downs Course, was a giant in the field of golf course architecture – and his design philosophy of risk and reward remains as compelling today as it was a century ago.
Words by Alex Moore
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James Braid was one of the most successful golfers of the early 20th century, winning the Open Championship five times in the space of 10 years, but it was his writings on golfing fundamentals and his subsequent course designs – including Goodwood’s Downs Course, which he created in 1914 – that really carved his name into the sport’s history books.
“Keep on hitting it straight until the wee ball goes in the hole,” was the great man’s injunction. But as every golfer knows, there’s nothing straightforward about playing a Braid course, because they’re designed not just to test a player’s skills but their nerves too. He always envisaged, for example, “at least two possible alternative methods of playing the hole – an easy one, a difficult one – and there should be a chance of gaining a stroke when the latter one is chosen”. After all, what is any game without risk and reward – or indeed, penalty? Braid’s guiding principles still hold true, but over the years his Downs Course has undergone some changes. Howard Swan was working under the late, great golf course architect Fred Hawtree when the course was given a makeover in the 1970s. Swan is something of a Braid apostle, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Scotsman’s oeuvre, and admits that some of those alterations didn’t feel very Braidlike. But in 2004, Swan – by now a well-known golf course architect in his own right – was commissioned to renovate the same course, giving him the opportunity to return it to something closer to Braid’s original vision.
“It had been tinkered with so much over the years, it had rather lost its flow – and to some extent its excitement – because it’s a wonderfully scenic bit of land,” says Swan. “I’d like to think we took the best of Braid and enhanced it, but never forgot about the spirit of his design – the shape, size and contour of the greens; the doglegging of some holes, with strategic bunkering to suit.”
Swan’s £2.5m renovation has largely stood the test of time, but in 2014, Goodwood commissioned international golf course architects Mackenzie & Ebert to refurbish the bunkers. “One thing we did was reinstate the 14th hole as a sporty par 5, which I believe is how it was back in the Braid layout,” says Tom Mackenzie. “Now, more people walk off with a par or a birdie and a smile on their face, rather than the grimace that came with the par 4. And of course, all of Braid’s courses had a signature par 3 with a necklace of bunkers around the green. The 12th hole on the Downs is our version of that.”
Would Braid approve? Well, as long as the course is an emotional roller coaster, offering players the chance to make or break a round on each and every hole – which it certainly still does – we think he’d give it the thumbs-up.
This article was taken from the Winter 2019/2020 edition of the Goodwood Magazine.
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