Most Underrated/Best Value Course you've played

[Five&One]

The thread asked for best value, and at £55 Formby is a steal. Normally £140 of a weekend in the summer. It's on a par with Turnberry, Carnoustie, Hillside and Royal Aberdeen.

If you could play Augusta for £150 would that not be value also?

It doesn't have to be £15 to be the best value.

Point taken but £55 when it is normally £140 is only a discount on a huge green fee. It doesn't necessarily mean you are getting value for money. Playing a slightly lesser course for half that is likely to be better value for money IMO.

 

[PNWokingham]

Point taken but £55 when it is normally £140 is only a discount on a huge green fee. It doesn't necessarily mean you are getting value for money. Playing a slightly lesser course for half that is likely to be better value for money IMO.

Formby for £55 is super super value - this course is one of the very best in the country and much better value than playing an average to decent course for half that amount IMHO

 

[ScienceBoy]

Sudbrook Moor

 

[Foxholer]

Formby for £55 is super super value - this course is one of the very best in the country and much better value than playing an average to decent course for half that amount IMHO

Amen to that - best deal identified so far, if time dependent. RSG does a half price deal and can be a great day in March, if something of a risk.

Indeed, Opens are excellent value - in Scotland! Darn Sarf, they are not so cheap and seem to be treated as opportunities to play really good courses. The whole attitude to Golf is quite different (better imo) in Scotland than it is in (at least South East) England.

 

[DCB]

Hopeman on the Moray Coast. A course of two halfs, a parkland series of holes to start then it goes out towards the cliffs and into the gorse lined undulating fairways of a links style course. Great greens when we were there. The 12th, Prieshach, is the standout hole, par 3, 150 yards but a drop of 100 feet from the tee with the sea on the RHS and deep gorse on the LHS. Played there this time last year for £80 for a fourball.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Point taken but £55 when it is normally £140 is only a discount on a huge green fee. It doesn't necessarily mean you are getting value for money. Playing a slightly lesser course for half that is likely to be better value for money IMO.

It's much the same as paying £15 for a £45 course, but each to their own. Some people will not pay over £30 for a game, which is their right.

Formby however is a great course, and well up there in the British Isles, and is also an open qualifier.

I think for the extra £30, it would live long in the memory, maybe not for the other option.

 

[Five&One]

It's much the same as paying £15 for a £45 course, but each to their own. Some people will not pay over £30 for a game, which is their right.

Formby however is a great course, and well up there in the British Isles, and is also an open qualifier.

I think for the extra £30, it would live long in the memory, maybe not for the other option.

Could be that I really couldn't care where I play as long as its enjoyable and I haven't the feeling of paying a really high premium to play essentially the same game, only somewhere a bit posher.

also, I am a high handicapper so I probably wouldn't enjoy a championship course as much as a mid to low player would.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Could be that I really couldn't care where I play as long as its enjoyable and I haven't the feeling of paying a really high premium to play essentially the same game, only somewhere a bit posher.

also, I am a high handicapper so I probably wouldn't enjoy a championship course as much as a mid to low player would.

Poshness doesn't attract me, great golf holes do, and Formby's run of 6-9 holes are amongst the best around.

 

[Bratty]

Bondhay golf club was superb a couple of years ago. Near Worksop, it's a great test of golf with some lovely holes, clever bunkering, water in good places and rather picturesque to boot. Weekend rate is around £26 or so.

 

[In_The_Rough]

Bondhay golf club was superb a couple of years ago. Near Worksop, it's a great test of golf with some lovely holes, clever bunkering, water in good places and rather picturesque to boot. Weekend rate is around £26 or so.

You played Bondhay mate, I posted that course in the chewed me up and spat me out thread. Lovely course but tough as old boots. £17 on Monday and Tuesday which is a bargain