mikee247
Challenge Tour Pro
Friend of mine played the other week said it was superb. Also Swinley Forrest is apparently splendid as is the Berkshire especially for lunch and waitresses!! All fine courses great if you can get on them!
New Zealand Golf Club, Surrey
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Snelly
Guest
Swinley is my second favourite inland course and is truly great. They have served the same three things for starter, main and pudding for many many years! The staff are lovely but not under 50!
Coincidentally, I am playing 36 holes at the Berkshire next Wednesday and can confirm that it is a superb venue. The waitresses are indeed very nice, especially at this time of the year when the Uni holidays have started. The one major drawback with the Berkshire is that they don't make their own Yorkshire puddings. They use bought ones and this is unforgivable for a club of this class and stature. I will be making my usual submission on this subject in their suggestions book next week!
mikee247
Challenge Tour Pro
LOl yes I agree all that lurverly food and Aunt Besties yorkies truly a sin!! However I could fit any more on my plate at the time so wasnt overly worried. Shame I was driving as desperately wanted to pile in the single malt in the big chairs and enjoy the occasion! Great changing rooms and showers as well. Good deals to be had for 36 holes including lunch for that sort of course. My clubs bag and shoes were cleaner when I came off then when i started!
Canary_Yellow
Journeyman Pro
Played my round at New Zealand today - it really is a wonderful course.
The weather was decent enough, a couple of showers and could have been much worse.
The club itself really is a relic from a bygone era, but we received a very friendly welcome from the pro and secretary.
The course was in great condition - beautiful coloured bushes, heather and trees lining tight fairways. The greens were immaculate too. It's not a long course (6,000 yards) but the par is a meagre 68. The landscape is flat, and all but 1 or 2 holes are straight, however every hole is intriguing, challenging and beautiful. No hole is the same, and we felt like we were the only people on the course - each hole is isolated completely from all others.
My review may be biased by virtue of me playing the best round I've ever managed (a gross 85, net 64) but I really did think the course was fantastic. If you get the chance to play it, and you're like me and haven't heard of the place, don't let that put you off - its superb.
The weather was decent enough, a couple of showers and could have been much worse.
The club itself really is a relic from a bygone era, but we received a very friendly welcome from the pro and secretary.
The course was in great condition - beautiful coloured bushes, heather and trees lining tight fairways. The greens were immaculate too. It's not a long course (6,000 yards) but the par is a meagre 68. The landscape is flat, and all but 1 or 2 holes are straight, however every hole is intriguing, challenging and beautiful. No hole is the same, and we felt like we were the only people on the course - each hole is isolated completely from all others.
My review may be biased by virtue of me playing the best round I've ever managed (a gross 85, net 64) but I really did think the course was fantastic. If you get the chance to play it, and you're like me and haven't heard of the place, don't let that put you off - its superb.
duncan mackie
Money List Winner
good you enjoyed it, 6000 yds and an appropriate par is, in my opinion, one of the solutions to the length issue many raise
the East at Wentworth achieves the same thing, and is both the most enjoyable of the courses to play and the toughest to score stableford points on! (yes I know the SSS is high but most golfers seem to relate to par and stableford points for 'success'!
the East at Wentworth achieves the same thing, and is both the most enjoyable of the courses to play and the toughest to score stableford points on! (yes I know the SSS is high but most golfers seem to relate to par and stableford points for 'success'!
