Bottom 5 courses

[Bratty]

Oh please.....you obviously had a bad day or know nothing about golf.....or both!!!!!

Shot 94, so perfectly happy with my game that day. Must mean I know nothing about golf then!
I didn't say it was a bad course, merely I was disappointed. This was 12 years ago and€28 for a very small breakfast, staff generally ignoring us, some bunkers in a bit of a state and some tees rather scruffy meant I didn't exactly love the course.
If that means I know nothing about golf, so be it.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I'll happily chuck http://hortonparkgolf.com/ into the mix. Ideal as a starter course (and we all have to start somewhere) but a place full of archetypal "chav" golfers. Slow and the set up means some holes are definitely in range so decent players forced to wait regardless

 

[ScienceBoy]

New Malton Golf Club is the worst I've ever played at. Used to play there occasionally about 10 years ago and it was pretty decent, then they just let it go to hell and its condition is terrible. After the last visit I vowed I'd never go back again. In short a muddy field.

http://www.golfshake.com/course/view/15427/New_Malton_Golf_Club.html

Seems like I'm not alone. I'm sure a couple of regulars on here are/used to be members, would love to know what happened to the place. Cambridge isn't blessed with many good courses.

Sad that as the members were a decent lot. All gone off to Meridian now.

The course had potential, the 2nd, 9th and 15-17 were actually decent holes.

I really wished the Eco thing worked out but as a Biologist who worked with pesticides I can tell you its not the cheap option over chemical (and pretty effective they are). I was a member and I struggled to keep my golfing bug, tried the "only play in comps" thing but it just bled the golf right out of me.

What everyone has said so far about the now closed New Malton (inc Gibbo) is true and even as a member I struggled to have the "Want" to get out of bed and go there!

In the end it was 10 minutes from my desk at work and the only place I could afford so it was all I had. Plus I had the range to myself 90% of the time and I could just pick up and hit as many balls as I wanted for a quid fifty.

When they started charging for a glass of water I knew it was the end and gave up. The course had already become unplayable, even my good short game could not bring me home in a decent score.

Sad really but it tried to be something it couldn't. It needed to be a short open closely mown course but it tried to be a tough competition layout with killer rough which just ate balls and sapped your energy.


So... To those who put courses here because they are not "testing", please reconsider, if the course is well kept and presented who cares if it tests your game or not! At least you have a great surface to play on!

 

[Smiffy]

Wellshurst GC in Sussex.
Fairways like football pitches, bone hard in the summer, quagmire during the wetter months.
Couple of decent holes but most of the others are Mickey Mouse.
If somebody invited me over for 18 holes and lunch, I'd give them a four hour head start and meet them in the clubhouse after their round (the food is okay).

 

[Tongo]

Sad that as the members were a decent lot. All gone off to Meridian now.

The course had potential, the 2nd, 9th and 15-17 were actually decent holes.

I really wished the Eco thing worked out but as a Biologist who worked with pesticides I can tell you its not the cheap option over chemical (and pretty effective they are). I was a member and I struggled to keep my golfing bug, tried the "only play in comps" thing but it just bled the golf right out of me.

What everyone has said so far about the now closed New Malton (inc Gibbo) is true and even as a member I struggled to have the "Want" to get out of bed and go there!

In the end it was 10 minutes from my desk at work and the only place I could afford so it was all I had. Plus I had the range to myself 90% of the time and I could just pick up and hit as many balls as I wanted for a quid fifty.

When they started charging for a glass of water I knew it was the end and gave up. The course had already become unplayable, even my good short game could not bring me home in a decent score.

Sad really but it tried to be something it couldn't. It needed to be a short open closely mown course but it tried to be a tough competition layout with killer rough which just ate balls and sapped your energy.


So... To those who put courses here because they are not "testing", please reconsider, if the course is well kept and presented who cares if it tests your game or not! At least you have a great surface to play on!

That i very much agree with! Which is why i shall be taking up your recommendation of Avington Park in a few weeks.

 

[drew83]

Blakes in Essex is a shocker

I have never played there, and looking to hold a society soon. The guy organising it has offered up blakes.
Can I ask what is so bad about it?

 

[Dan2501]

I'll happily chuck http://hortonparkgolf.com/ into the mix. Ideal as a starter course (and we all have to start somewhere) but a place full of archetypal "chav" golfers. Slow and the set up means some holes are definitely in range so decent players forced to wait regardless

I'd probably have to agree, despite currently being a member there. The course is just badly set-up. The first pretty much sets the tone. The short par-3 means your round starts slowly, and that's how it'll remain. Then, I like the 2nd, an nice easy par-4 to get you going. Then, the real issues start, the 3rd is a ridiculous hole. It's not overly long for a par 5, but the tee positions make the tee shot almost impossible unless you're very long and accurate. It's incredibly tight with almost no forgiveness until the last 100 yards. The 4th is okay, but the green is very hard to land on. The rest of the front-nine is then pretty samey. Then the big hole, the 10th. Great hole off the yellows, and a superb challenge of your iron play, off the white's it's ridiculous. 180 yards to a tiny green surrounded by water. Almost everyone lays up off the tee and then chips on for 2. Would be a much better challenge in a comp playing it from 155, as almost everyone would take it on. Then, I actually quite like the back-nine, except 18, which again, is a brute of a par 3 off the whites.

Very average course that could be much better. The course planning leaves a lot to be desired, and the course condition can often be poor. The cheap membership is basically the only reason I'm a member, and fortunately membership allows you access to Chichester and Hill Barn, which are much better tracks. The introduction of foot-golf onto the main course makes it even worse. Between 1 and 3 in the afternoon (even at weekends) you have to start your round from the 10th, as they let the footgolfers out. Why they didn't stick it on the par-3 course I do not know. More mindless money-grabbing from the management company. Moving up North at the end of the summer, and will not miss Horton one bit.

 

[drewster]

I have never played there, and looking to hold a society soon. The guy organising it has offered up blakes.
Can I ask what is so bad about it?

I played Blakes a few years ago and really quite enjoyed it. Lovely island green par 3 , sawgrassesque if i remember correctly. Lots of competition in that area and both Canons Brook and Toot Hill are better and much more established though.

 

[drew83]

ok cheers drewster!