Breadsall Priory, Derbyshire

[Deleted member 15717]

Hey all,

Playing here at the weekend (4 rounds!) with 3 on the Priory and 1 on the Moorland. Has anyone else played it or got some hints and tips? It's a competition (of sorts) between 16 of us going away, so any advantage would be great.

Currently using Google Earth and created my own strokesaver of yardages and some notes as to what I m expecting to hit off the tee, but any little nuggets of help, or any info whatsoever on the hotel etc would be grand!

 

[ColchesterFC]

Stayed there a couple of weekends ago and had a great time. We did a Sunday driver deal with a round on the Priory on the Sunday and then the Moorland on the Monday. I would recommend buggies for the Priory course as it is quite hilly and I certainly was feeling the effects of the climbs after 13 or 14 holes and that was with a trolley. Would only recommend carrying clubs to the younger/fitter members of your group. Worth booking buggies in advance as there were none available for the Sunday and only 3 for the Monday.

They had hollow tined the greens on the Moorland on the Monday morning so weren't in great condition but should have improved a bit since then. Not sure if they were planning to do the Priory course as well.

I preferred the Moorland course even though I played better on the Priory. We had 12 in our group of all abilities - from a scratch golfer up to a couple of guys off 23.

There are some very short par 4's on the Priory (even off the white tees) and a run of holes on the back 9 (I think 13, 14, 15) that are very close together and you need to be aware of what other groups are doing and where they are hitting. I think it is the 16th which is a long par 4 that is only a couple of yards shorter than the 18th which is a par 5. Lots of sloping fairways which means even hitting a good shot down the middle can result in the ball running into the rough so finding a good position off the tee is important.

The Moorland course is much more open and should be the easier course. We played individual stableford on the Priory and Texas Scramble on the Moorland. Would have preferred it the other way round as I think scoring would be easier on the Moorland.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

Best advice I can give is cancel and go elsewhere.
I've never been a fan of Breadsall. Too many Mickey Mouse holes on the Priory course (particularly holes 8,9 & 10).
Agreed re: being careful on holes 13, 14 & 15 I've seen a few near misses on them.

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Best advice I can give is cancel and go elsewhere.
I've never been a fan of Breadsall. Too many Mickey Mouse holes on the Priory course (particularly holes 8,9 & 10).
Agreed re: being careful on holes 13, 14 & 15 I've seen a few near misses on them.

+1.

Like a number of Marriott's UK courses it pretends to be something it isn't i.e. a Championship course. Very ordinary and often very busy resulting in a pathetic pace of play.

 

[ColchesterFC]

Would generally agree with the 2 comments above as it was certainly the company rather than the courses that made it a good couple of days.

Having said that our rounds were 4+1/2 hours for a 4 ball on the Priory and 3+1/2 hours for the scramble on the Moorland so wasn't as slow as it could've been.

 

[SammmeBee]

Dreadful Priory.......

 

[Deleted member 15717]

Favourable reviews there then! I did see how close some holes are to each other. The 13th green seems remarkably close to any drive lost right off the 14th tee.
I'm planning on trolley'ing all the way around on both...guess if it is hard work the I won't have to use the gym in the hotel!

 

[SGC001]

Greens tend to be ok on priory course, the moorland course is one of few that would drain well in derbyshire.

Difficult to know lines of pkay without knowing your shot shape and distances.

Priory:
1st driveable, small green if you can't reach lay up to allow a full approach as it's a small green that's slightly raised. 2 as you see it short better than long, 3 severe left to right sloping fairway. 4 par 5 2nd part slopes right to left. 5 more room right of the tee than you'd think. 6 short downhill par 3, distance key don't go through the back. 7 now a par 4 dogleg right, 8th mid to long iron over range short approach, some could drive it. 9 some could drive left and just short better line if laying up, need to control wedge distance on approach as short better than long for putting. 10 driveable for some fiddly lay up. 11 driveable for some if can't leave a full shot, green slopes away wnd a tree protects front. 12 uphill 2 tier green important to get on right tier, better short than long. 13 driveable or leave wedge distance pkaying safely up right of fairway, 2nd shot better long than short as bank at back would help long and bank at front would hurt short. 14 par 3, short better than long. 15 par 4 I think now 2nd shot slopes down so can run it in. 16 decent hole water righ oob left of tee. Bank on left of green for 2nd shot can help. 17 downhill par 3, I prefer to pkay a knock down shot. 18 may be a 4 or 5 now, better short of pin than long.

Moorland: quite open. 1 uphill par 3, short better than long. 2 ok hole straight forward. 3rd driveable or lau up to favoured wedge distance, raised green short better than long. 4 driveable for vrry few, play it as a dog leg bite some off. 5 can't remember too well, 6 short downhill par 3 long brtter thsn short. 7 very reachable blind shot. 8, 9 don, t remember too well. 10 very reachable, 11 dogleg most play it as such. 12 straight forward, 13 straight forward, 14 downhill par 3. 15 straight forward, 16 straight forward. 17 uphill par 3. 18 dogleg left straight forward. I am not sure if it's 8 or 16 that's a very reachable par 5. Same for 9 and 5. I think it's 9 and 16 that are the par 5's.

Short course, open and exposed ball runs sss is 3 below par I think.

 

[Deleted member 15717]

Genius, thanks for that...Does help out a fair bit. Will try to add to my homemade strokesaver as tips!