Playing St Georges Hill today!!!!

[wookie]

Have been awake for at least the last hour or so lying in bed like a nervous kid

New clubs have arrived (R11s) and after having a complete nightmare at the practice ground the day they arrived they were behaving a bit better at the range yesterday.

Going to take a bit of getting used to steel shafts after the graphite on the old sticks but nice place to christen them!

 

[Smiffy]

Should be a great day. I love St Georges Hill. Enjoy and play well

 

[pbrown7582]

Enjoy heard great things about st georges hill and the r11's

 

[Region3]

I've never played it but a lot of people on here love it. Enjoy!

 

[harvey4banger]

Not many people get to play there, good luck

 

[Snelly]

Not many people get to play there, good luck

Yes they do! I have played there many times (won twice there too so I love it!). Anyone can if they arrange it with the club and pay a green fee. And it isn't prohibitively expensive either. Cheaper than Woburn for a start and a better experience too. You will be made to feel very welcome and everything about the place is brilliant.

It is a special club in the most amazing housing estate you will ever see. A lovely course that isn't too tough with some cracking holes and a superb atmosphere. My favourite hole is the 13th which is a classic par 4 in every sense. Not a course that requires long hitting off the visitors tees either. The Open qualifier tees are a different story though. Much tougher.

Also, the lunch is just about as good as golf club fodder gets. Only Tandridge, West Sussex and Sunningdale come close in my view. Beautiful roasts, excellent accompaniments and treacle tart or bread and butter pudding as dessert choices! Good wine list too with decent claret at sensible prices.


Hope you had a good day and that the weather was kind.

 

[PNWokingham]

I echo all that has been said - great course fantastic first hole, and tough second. 2-7 are decent but 8 onwards are fantastic - although looking at old pictures of 8, it used to be even better! Agree with Snelly about 13 - a wicked green if quick! Par 5s are short and open up birdie chances.

 

[harvey4banger]

Yes they do! I have played there many times (won twice there too so I love it!). Anyone can if they arrange it with the club and pay a green fee. And it isn't prohibitively expensive either. Cheaper than Woburn for a start and a better experience too. You will be made to feel very welcome and everything about the place is brilliant.

It is a special club in the most amazing housing estate you will ever see. A lovely course that isn't too tough with some cracking holes and a superb atmosphere. My favourite hole is the 13th which is a classic par 4 in every sense. Not a course that requires long hitting off the visitors tees either. The Open qualifier tees are a different story though. Much tougher.

Also, the lunch is just about as good as golf club fodder gets. Only Tandridge, West Sussex and Sunningdale come close in my view. Beautiful roasts, excellent accompaniments and treacle tart or bread and butter pudding as dessert choices! Good wine list too with decent claret at sensible prices.


Hope you had a good day and that the weather was kind.

Heard great thinks about the course, but £135 per round May - October is a bit out of my league

 

[richart]

I play with a Society at St Georges Hill every year. One of my favourite courses, and a lovely clubhouse that used to have a thatched roof before a fire. Good atmosphere in the clubhouse and great food as Snelly remarked. My favourite house is the one with its own mooring on the 9th. The sculpture in the middle of the garden is probably worth a fortune.

 

[Snelly]

Heard great thinks about the course, but £135 per round May - October is a bit out of my league

Play in April then when it is £90.

It may sound expensive still at that price but I would counter that by saying £90 is really excellent value for money for a day out at a club like this. It will be money well spent and certainly one round at SGH is worth three at a course with a £30 green fee.

Favourite house on the estate for me is by the 13th green but you can't see it from the course. It was sold two years ago and was featured in the Sunday Times. It has 4 storeys, a lovely pool and a garage for seven cars. Most of the house is underground though! It is like a secrect bunker with the top floor above ground, mostly made of glass and in a fantastic garden. I was interested in it but at £27 million, it was slightly out of our price range - ahem...!

 

[wookie]

Wow!! What a great golfing experience.

Course in cracking condition for winter. Even though a few greens were slightly wet they ran completely true. Only complaint would be the lack of or hard sand in bunkers.

Red course is shut in Jan (blue shut in Feb) so we played the blue and green off the back tees in the morning - I failed to break the 100 but nevermind. The green 9 is a bit shorter but a lot tighter.

Unfortunately they have a gas supply problem at the moment and were only offering bar snacks but if my steak baguette was anything to go by I don't doubt that the full lunch is great.

Played the blue 9 again after that off the yellows and was only 9 over so happy there.

As above we were given a great welcome and not a hint of snobbery from any staff or from the handful of members we saw there. We only saw a total of seven other golfers over the course of 27 holes!

I suppose it it is a lottery weatherwise at this time of year and we got lucky but overall for £65 outstanding value for money and a great day out which will defintely be repeated.

Only downside was that I only hit 2 properly decent shots with the new bats but hopefully can fix this with some range time.

 

[Smiffy]

Glad you enjoyed your day, but a shame that the other nine was closed. I much prefer playing the red and blue 9's. Despite what others may say, the green 9 is nowhere near the quality of the aforementioned red & blue's. I always enjoy St George's Hill.

 

[Snelly]

Agreed. The red is probably the best 9. The green is nowhere near as good.

Still, glad you enjoyed it!

 

[rickg]

One of my favourite courses ever...play it twice a year and it isnt enough!