Most overrated golf course you have played.....

In this country it's the Brabazon at the Belfry. Nowt special off the yellows except for the 10th, 17th & 18th.
Abroad, it has to be Penina. What a boring track, it's ridiculously busy & we were not made to feel even a little bit welcome...............I HATED IT!

Slime.
 
stevek1969 said:
I'm sorry to hear you think Scotscraig is overated, but opinions are like ********s everyone has one. Was there anything about the course that you didn't like?. Yes its my home course and i love it , i think its a fantastic test of golf, maybe you didn't play well.

I spoke to some Swede's and Americans there today and they loved it, the course is always in good condition with fast running greens.

It can't be that bad as its a Final Qualifying course when The Open is at St Andrews and statistcally the the course plays the hardest out of the rest of the courses, oh and its the 13th Oldest in the world.
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Difficult to say - I think the thing was that one had heard so many good things about the place - much of it on here but plenty elsewhere - that I guess my expectations were too high. Couldn't complain about how well kept it was - course was in good nick and excellent greens. But I thought back nine was very different character to the front which always spoils things for me . And I didn't find anything particularly memorable. In the end , each their own I suppose. I thought it was going to be the bees knees but it didn't float my boat (Too many alliterative rhymes I fear ?)

To put into context - my favourites of the week were Panmure & Crail; not hitting the mark were Edzell & Downfield, and not even getting onto the scale was Murrayshall Lynedoch (totally laughable). Leaving ,Montrose, Scotscraig & Forfar in the middle.
 
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sev112 said:
For me Wentworth was fantastic - i suppose it helped that it was a week before or after the PGA, so in fantastic condition, the sun was out, and there was no-one else on the course. I thought it was fantastic playing the holes that i had watched for years.

Has to be Walton Heath - just didnt get it at all
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Unless you got away with something extraordinary, Wentworth would had to have been the week AFTER the PGA. It's closed for 3 weeks before it. Often seems like there's no-one on it too.

Walton is one of my favourites! Old probably has the toughest first non-links 9 in the South. And the rest is pretty fine also.
 
Hate Murrayshall i'm afraid, and i played it well, don't like having to hit a 8 iron of the tee on a par 5 then a 3 wood along the side of a hill, stupid course IMO
 
I will definitely be looking at playing Scotscraig when up again next year. Sounds like a good place for a meet up. Enjoyed Ladybank and assume it is of a similar standard ?
 
Very surprised to see Pleasington and Southerness mentioned. Yes Southerness is bleak and pretty featureless but that's really the point. It's golf as it was intended and changes according to the weather ..... 18 points out 6 back when I played it, and it was a good 6!! Pleasington a very nice track, undulating and interesting with a wide variety of holes.

To be (probably) controversial, my contribution would be Fairhaven.... neither a links nor really a parkland course, totally flat, just bunkers penalising straight drives all over the place with pancake flat greens....yawn.
 
stevek1969 said:
I'm sorry to hear you think Scotscraig is overated, but opinions are like ********s everyone has one. Was there anything about the course that you didn't like?. Yes its my home course and i love it , i think its a fantastic test of golf, maybe you didn't play well.

I spoke to some Swede's and Americans there today and they loved it, the course is always in good condition with fast running greens.

It can't be that bad as its a Final Qualifying course when The Open is at St Andrews and statistcally the the course plays the hardest out of the rest of the courses, oh and its the 13th Oldest in the world.
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I thought Scotscraig was a lovely track The 4th is a phenomenal hole. The pace was in great nick as it had just had LFQ for the Open. Folk were friendly. I would go back in a heartbeat. Lucky I am up in the area in July/August.....
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I love Scotscraig and if I were to head back up to that area for a golfing holiday it would be one of the first on my itinerary.
Lovely track, always in great condition. Lots of happy memories of Scotscraig (like Ray Taylor being grabbed around the throat by the 18th green when we started having a heated discussion about handicaps!).
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Montgomerie course at Carton House in Ireland, just felt it was flat, bland & every hole looked the same, probably didn't help that you had to avoid a million bunkers in a 40mph wind.
 
Longhirst in Northumberland!! Not a bad layout but far to much water and in poor poor condition.
Was recommended to me but wish i hadnt bothered. Maybe in time it will come good tho.
 
its an absolute no brainer for me the Carrick on Loch Lomond, has to be one of the worst golf courses i have played in terms of presentation and condition.
the actual holes are not bad and interesting however completely let down by the time it takes to get around and the condition of the greens due to unrepaired pitch marks.

We played it last year and whilst we were keeping up with the game in front and not holding up the ones behind, the marshal came up and told us to keep the flow moving, when i told him that we couldnt go anywhere and that part of the reason we were 'slow' in his opinion was that we were repairing around 10 pitchmarks each on the green...yes it was that bad...he mumbled a sort of apologiy and moved on.

one course i wouldnt go back to.
 
i would have to say the following ST MELLION-typical nicklaus course with earth banks for features,THE BELFREY-seems to be living on its past,terrible condition when i played it, and sorry to say ST ANDREWS having waited years to play it and picturing the greats coming down the 18th or playing the road hole the reality never lived up to my expectations.
 
Some great responses on here!!

Another one I'd add to the list is Little Aston. A snooty club with just tons of bunkers and trees. Didn't do much for me at all and is is past steep , almost vertical in price!!

What I would like add is there are a lot of links courses named, which I think for some are a bit unfair. As we all know, Links courses are not designed to look pretty. Sure, the newer builds (kingsbarn for example) are an expecting to the rule but the likes or Burnham and Berrow, Trevose And Narin are brutal tests and have been for years and years.
 
Worst; The Belfry(both). Play in the height of summer and they aren't half bad but by then most places are in good nick. Play them in the winter and its almost a waste of money.
 
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