Paul_Stewart
Tour Rookie
Just outside Newbury in Berkshire and a parkland course set amongst your typical huge country estate. It's a recently built course so has all the mod cons and nothing but buggies.
The course itself is pleasant and very challenging at 7,100 from the whites and 6,600 from the yellows. It's a Par 72 with SSS 72 for yellow players and 74 from the whites.
But in terms of memorable holes ... err ... no sorry. They are all very nice and challenge you but nothing that you remember next day as being really good.
There is also a ton of walking from 1st to 2nd, 8th to 9th, 9th to 10th and 18th to 19th. Hence they recommend buggies for everyone which to me always spoils a round.
After an initial gentle par 4, you play an uphill par 5 and then a pair of nondescript par 4s. The 6th is an uphill drive and then dog-leg right to a really small but wide green (imagine a putting version of Lorraine Kelly) that plays 570 off both tees.
The 8th is a blind tee-shot downhill par 4 that is spoiled by having no real idea where you are going. 10 is a 620 yard par 5 with a whacking great tree in the middle of the fairway some 150 yards from the green.
The 11th is a tight drive with OOB and water by the green and then its just more parkland par 3s, 4s and 5s until the end of the round.
It's not that cheap either so there are far better parkland courses in the area (Calcot Park for starters) that are better value than this place.
So in short, it's not as good as St.Andrews but better than Lydd (that really narrows it down doesn't it?!)
The course itself is pleasant and very challenging at 7,100 from the whites and 6,600 from the yellows. It's a Par 72 with SSS 72 for yellow players and 74 from the whites.
But in terms of memorable holes ... err ... no sorry. They are all very nice and challenge you but nothing that you remember next day as being really good.
There is also a ton of walking from 1st to 2nd, 8th to 9th, 9th to 10th and 18th to 19th. Hence they recommend buggies for everyone which to me always spoils a round.
After an initial gentle par 4, you play an uphill par 5 and then a pair of nondescript par 4s. The 6th is an uphill drive and then dog-leg right to a really small but wide green (imagine a putting version of Lorraine Kelly) that plays 570 off both tees.
The 8th is a blind tee-shot downhill par 4 that is spoiled by having no real idea where you are going. 10 is a 620 yard par 5 with a whacking great tree in the middle of the fairway some 150 yards from the green.
The 11th is a tight drive with OOB and water by the green and then its just more parkland par 3s, 4s and 5s until the end of the round.
It's not that cheap either so there are far better parkland courses in the area (Calcot Park for starters) that are better value than this place.
So in short, it's not as good as St.Andrews but better than Lydd (that really narrows it down doesn't it?!)
