Best Parkland courses

[Deleted member 1147]

As we all know Links and Heathland courses dominate people's lists of best courses, but which are your favourite Parkland tracks?
I'm at a Parkland, and it would be useful to be able to compare and contrast my place with those others prefer to see what we get right and wrong.

 

[Wabinez]

Hadley Wood
Woburn Marquess
Royal Norwich
The Buckinghamshire

Those 4 stand out immediately. Love a good parkland track in the summer. Something immaculately manicured and lush grass.

 

[Bdill93]

I've not played many "top" parkland courses at all so Ill offer a couple of alternative options -

Coventry Golf club - little stunner.
Cleobury Mortimer (more for the actual parkland setting than the course - stunning huge trees on the older holes)

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I've probably not played high level parkland but ones I've played and thought were very nice indeed, better than the norm:

The Roxburghe
Slaley Hall
Hexham
Oakdale (Harrogate)

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Woburn
Bearwood
Little Aston
Grove

 

[Deleted member 17920]

Gleneagles Kings and Queens

Woburn

Bearwood Lakes

Tandridge

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Gleneagles Kings and Queens

Woburn

Bearwood Lakes

Tandridge

Surely Gleneagles is more heathland / moorland than parkland? The definitions can be subjective, I just don't see them that way.

 

[evemccc]

I would like to play Denham….I’ve heard it is pretty good and I presume a parkland?

 

[clubchamp98]

Prestbury GC.
Sandiway GC.
Two stunning courses I love playing them both.

 

[Dando]

a bit left field but i used to love Beckenham Place Park before the council shut it down.

Woburn & Bearwood Lakes are great courses

Westerham is very pretty but you need to be wary of one of the members

Hever Castle is nice as well

 

[Deleted member 21258]

In order from my favourite :-

Mount Juliet
Loch Lomond
Woburn Marquess
JCB
Thorndon Park
Hainault Forest (conditioning not great etc, was a council course, but some cracking layout holes on the course).

Edit from a pure conditioning point of view, almost the best anywhere Belfry

 

[srixon 1]

Bearwood
Rolls of Monmouth
St Mellion (Nicklaus)

 

[Golfnut1957]

I've probably not played high level parkland but ones I've played and thought were very nice indeed, better than the norm:

The Roxburghe
Slaley Hall
Hexham
Oakdale (Harrogate)

From your list I would take Hexham and Oakdale all day long and add Brancepeth Castle and possibly Castle Eden.

 

[need_my_wedge]

I would like to play Denham….I’ve heard it is pretty good and I presume a parkland?

Denham, in Bucks? I grew up in Denham and used to live next to it, but have only played it once. It’s not a bad course, we enjoyed playing it, but don’t recall anything to shout about. Some holes running alongside the aérodrome with some interesting planes, that’s about it.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

From your list I would take Hexham and Oakdale all day long and add Brancepeth Castle and possibly Castle Eden.

I've slapped myself for forgetting Brancepeth . I played it in an Open last year for the first time, loved it. It's a quality place. We are booked in to play there again in another Open this May .

Castle Eden is nice but not in the same category, for me. I can understand if others disagree.

 

[Deleted member 17920]

Surely Gleneagles is more heathland / moorland than parkland? The definitions can be subjective, I just don't see them that way.

I may be wrong but Gleneagles certainly didn't feel like a heathland and I cant remember seeing any heather on either course.

 

[Bratty]

Others have already been mentioned so I won't repeat them but one that is absolutely fabulous and is barely mentioned is Bondhay.
[Edited to remove erroneous County!]

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I may be wrong but Gleneagles certainly didn't feel like a heathland and I cant remember seeing any heather on either course.

I wouldn't go out on a limb on this, it just doesn't feel parkland to me

I've just googled it and I'm seeing heathland mentioned a lot. The gleneagles website also describes it as heathland. You'll just have to go back and play it again to double check

 

[bobmac]

Mount Juliet and Woburn Marquess for me too.
I haven't played Loch Lomond but it does look stunning.

 

[HeftyHacker]

Not played any of the big ones but the local ones I've been really impressed by are:

Pleasington (although arguably moorland and heathland in places)
Ormskirk
Stockport
Worsley (biased as I was a member briefly).