MadAdey
Money List Winner
Neither can I. I bet if you could airlift the hotel and driving range from Drumoig and drop them there it would sail into the top 100. Or even better take it down the road to St Andrews and drop it next to the old course.
Neither can I. I bet if you could airlift the hotel and driving range from Drumoig and drop them there it would sail into the top 100. Or even better take it down the road to St Andrews and drop it next to the old course.
stevek1969
Money List Winner
Very true mate , especially now the rang at Drumoig is now open again and the lad is making a right go of it
MadAdey
Money List Winner
What's Drumoig like now? When I lived up there me and my mates always though it had great potential. It does have done fantastic holes on the course. For me the design and lay out of holes 4,5,9,11,13 and 16 are good enough to be on most courses. I think par 3 11th is one of the most trickiest par 3s I have ever played when the wind picks up.
stevek1969
Money List Winner
To be honest I've not played it in years, always thought it was a slog but does have some nice holes on it, its a course that needs a fair bit of investment spent on it to keep it in top condition. The range has been transformed as it was closed for years and its a busy place now.
Jimaroid
Journeyman Pro
The Drumoig Golf Centre (driving range) is shaping up to be a really nice facility. The 9 hole par 3 course is being re-developed for 2015 and there's talk of redeveloping the all-weather short game area and a cafe again. I hope it does well, it's right on my doorstep and it's already a thousand times better than it used to be. It's a separate business from the course and hotel now. Really good family running it with a Stuart Syme at the helm and his son who's up and coming in the amateur ranks. I've no connection to them other than being impressed with what they're doing and their plans for the future.
stevek1969
Money List Winner
I had a lesson from Stuart last week and what a difference in ball striking already , his son is a bit handy of +4 i think he is. He certainly has big plans for the place.
Markw
Head Pro
Go and play Avisford Park in Sussex.
ASDA never looked so good
This is my home course, a lot of work gone into it over the last few years.
A club Owned and run by a top advisor and who supplies staff and sets up courses for European PGA events so always in good condition, never seen a temporary green in the last 7 years, never seen it closed and very reasonable.
If anyone wants to try it let me know and we can arrange a round!
http://www.avisfordparkgolfclub.com/
Bratty
Princess Pouty (Queen of Fish Lips)
I'm sure I've played some bad ones in the UK, but I just can't think of them! One European course that I remember being rather disappointed by and was in no way worth £140 was Valderama.
SammmeBee
Journeyman Pro
Oh please.....you obviously had a bad day or know nothing about golf.....or both!!!!!
SVB
Challenge Tour Pro
For what it is it is not too bad. I had a bit of a nightmare in that wife / kids went down to the art part of the hotel so I threw my clubs in hoping for a couple of quick rounds. Nope, wall to wall 4 ball societies (of very mixed ability!) and because they mix nines, even if I was out early the flow would only last until the turn.
Still, Kigbere best of all the courses I played and would be happy playing that alone really. Forest (or pines, can't remember name!) was ok also with some nice holes. Shorter course was very new and front nine was bashing it round a field a bit.
Still, if your there for the crack as much as the golf I'm sure you'll have a great time. It's not Augusta but then it doesn't claim to be.
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Marty420
Medal Winner
Great Salterns in Portsmouth. Too flat, poorly kept greens and the first fairway is a minefield of seagull droppings.
Furzely near Waterlooville. Words cannot describe.
And the Tower Course at Chichester, no other reason other than some holes are exact copies of ones you've played earlier in the round. Always play the Cathedral course now which is a proper test of your skill and abilities.
Furzely near Waterlooville. Words cannot describe.
And the Tower Course at Chichester, no other reason other than some holes are exact copies of ones you've played earlier in the round. Always play the Cathedral course now which is a proper test of your skill and abilities.
MendieGK
Tour Winner
Great Salterns isnt that bad for a muni! Many a great golfer in the hampshire scene has learnt the game there.
Furzeley is a great golf course for beginners with a great selection of par 3s
I actually prefer the Tower to the cathedral but neither are particularly great.
Foxholer
Blackballed
To me, it really depends on what the criteria is - just as per the Top 100!
I won't be bothered if I never return to The Barn in Sunbury, but can see it as a pretty good place to be introduced to Golf! Likewise, Stockley Pines (previously Stockley Park) is a great layout (I can forgive a couple of long walks), but the condition is often diabolical and the concept of etiquette is quite foreign. Same can apply to Pine Ridge (can be a 6 hour round!!) and Blue Mountains - though not recently. Three out of those 4 are Crown courses, but it's not really a criticism of them. It's just that I am not in the market that those courses are designed for!
On a different criteria, I wouldn't consider playing Wentworth West as a visitor either! But I would consider other nearby premium courses!
I won't be bothered if I never return to The Barn in Sunbury, but can see it as a pretty good place to be introduced to Golf! Likewise, Stockley Pines (previously Stockley Park) is a great layout (I can forgive a couple of long walks), but the condition is often diabolical and the concept of etiquette is quite foreign. Same can apply to Pine Ridge (can be a 6 hour round!!) and Blue Mountains - though not recently. Three out of those 4 are Crown courses, but it's not really a criticism of them. It's just that I am not in the market that those courses are designed for!
On a different criteria, I wouldn't consider playing Wentworth West as a visitor either! But I would consider other nearby premium courses!
Tongo
Journeyman Pro
Dont mind Great Salterns and i like Furzeley. Its short but there are some interesting / aesthetically pleasing holes there.
I can understand why not everyone will like them though.
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SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Really don't like this sort of thread - no great benefit to me to hear folk rubbishing courses and clubs as being 'the worse' - oh that we all played at the pristine immaculate courses. But we don't. Whilst some of are LUCKY enough to play at really nice tracks, for members and those who play the 'lesser' tracks of this world, reading disparaging and possible groundless or biased comments about their course could be very annoying, discouraging and indeed upsetting - especially when there are usually many making great efforts to improve their course when it is lacking. I'd go for a bit of consideration and support rather than finger-pointing and scoffing.
So not taking any further part in this one.
So not taking any further part in this one.
C&R
Assistant Pro
Blakes in Essex is a shocker
SHiiBBZ
Club Champion
Didn't particularly like Hurtmore. Up and down, up and down straight par 4's. Boring.
Foxholer
Blackballed
Several pretty good holes, but it's another I won't miss not going back to.
As for the 'inland links' description...that's only because they never planted any trees! Cost and destruction by wind probably being the reason!
C&R
Assistant Pro
That's exactly right. Inland links.....more like farmers field
m1975
Club Champion
Don't want to slag them off, but a few around me I wouldn't rush back to
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