What's the worst Course you've played?

[Imurg]

You don't have to name it if you don't want to but give a description as to why.

Mine is a little 9 holer in Bucks. The 1st is a drivable par 4 with a blind Tee shot - so someone has to walk 100 yards there and back to see if you can play! The 2nd is almost a dog-leg par 3!!?? You can barely see the edge of the green as its behind trees and bushes - you can't see the flag so again its hard to see if the green's cleared.

It settles down a bit after that until you have a Tee shot on an uphill par 3 that goes across another Tee and a green.

The whole thing is in an area 240 yards by 370 yards so the chance of getting killed by a stray shot is the highest I know.

 

[Twire]

Nearly fell off me chair when I read your "dogleg par 3"

 

[slugger]

Brucefields in Stirling... truly bad. worst greens i've had the misfortune to putt on. neds hanging at most corners to steal your balls or worse. the worst downhill par 3 on earth. the worst uphill par 5 on earth.

it's just a really poorly designed layout and poorly maintained.

 

[DCB]

Went on a weekend to a place in SW Scotland, near Stranraer. Place called Lagganmore. Wee hotel and golf course. Unlimited golf etc. Well it served its purpose but we now call it Laggannonevernomore. How can you drive down the middle of a fairway and lose a ball ? easy when the fairway is 2" deep in daisies.

 

[Smiffy]

Two courses I would never (ever) play again.
Wellshurst in East Sussex. Fairways like Sunday league football pitches (the worst ones) and I think the greens are just upturned piles of sand which have had grass seed thrown over them. They really are dire.

Hellidon Lakes, near Northampton. What a bloody goat track.
Went on a big Society day here, and it was awful. Everything about the course was crap, no sand in the bunkers, fairways not defined in the slightest, a par 5 where I knocked a 5 wood off the tee and wedged onto the green (and I'm not Tiger Woods)...the course was crap, the staff were crap, the food was crap. Sad thing was, I travelled the best part of 200 miles to play golf on that dungheap.
You have been warned!!

 

[CarpeDiem]

Elstree, just because I had a bad day whilst playing there, but all in all I don't think I have played a bad course because you can't blame the course if you play bad you have to adapt.

 

[Parmo]

Without questions La Serena Golf Club Murcia, water in play on 16 holes, narrow fairways and about 7000 yards. Check this bad boy first out

total nightmare of a course, took us 5 1/2 hours + 30 mins for my dad looking for his sunnies when some gimp behind us had obviously nicked them.

http://www.laserenagolf.clubmurcia.com/index.html

 

[RGuk]

For the money.....

The Belfry

Easy.....next.....

 

[heronsghyll]

I cannot agree more with realgolferuk.

For the money - the Belfry is a joke.

It is so expensive and a very average course, 2 x holes worth playing - that's it.

 

[ricardodaintino]

Smiffy, when did you play Hellidon lakes?

I played early summer and it sounds like you are describing a completely different course to the one I played???

Worst course??? Never played somewhere I was really unhappy with but lots of courses that could do with looking after the fairways better this time of year.

 

[Smiffy]

Smiffy, when did you play Hellidon lakes?

I played early summer and it sounds like you are describing a completely different course to the one I played???

I played it about 5 years ago, and it would have been in September (it was our Society's "National final" which is always held in that month)...

Seriously, it was an absolute disgrace.

 

[Dodger]

Played a few shockers in my time but not sure which would be my out and out worst.......let me think....some vary on reasons why they are shocking so I'll list them by 3 categories.

1)Worst conditioned :- Percy Wood G.C. in July last year,it was bottomlessI couldn't believe it was open for play.12 of us played that night and only 1 guy thought it was playable from both teams....the 21 year old greenkeeper! I lost 2 balls that split the fairway off the tee,plugged I pressume in the 6 inch high fairway grass,so wet they hadn't cut them for 2 weeks!I aint seen my kecks again from that night as they went strait into the bin as they were black to the knees!

2)Worst design:-Toss up between The Strathtyrum at St Andrews(how they get away with having this midden at the home of golf is beyond me) and a course I played while down playing Sherwood Forest,I think it was called Leen Valley possibly?? Anyhow they are both designed by the same guy Mr M Mouse and he was apparently assisted by Mrs M Mouse....

3)Worst for views:-funny one this as the worst would have to be the 9 holer I played in the centre of Prague this year,I do not remember the name of it but it was situated in Pragues version of downtown Beruit or as we christned it Royal Wester Hailes,if you are familiar with Edinburgh then you know what I mean but times it by 5,a total shitehole of an area but it was a cracking wee track in great condition and the best looking bird I have ever clapped eyes on working in reception it was just that I felt that either a sniper or a junkie was going to appear from one of the bushes on the course!!

 

[Dave3498]

Monte Mayor in Costa del Sol. The course should never have been built. All that can be said in its favour is that it's very pretty and worth a drive around in a buggy, but keep your clubs in your bag.

Next - the nicest people I ever met on a golf course are at The Bridge of Allan, but the course is a nightmare - for me anyway.

 

[Dodger]

You can't be serious Dave?? I really enjoyed Monte mayor the 2 times I've played it,very tough but a cracking strategy course and how they ever built a course there is remarkable.

 

[IM01]

Lauro...Costa del Sol
Played it once in June but unfortuately the irrigation system had been broken for a month..
Fairways were rock hard but they had been watering the greens by hand.
I now know why it's the cheapest course along that coast.


Played Monte Mayor a few times...only thing I don't enjoy about that course is the number of balls you lose.

 

[madandra]

Coatbridge Drumpellier municiple is ... eh ..... fields with flags on them. They have koonsil gardenrs instead of grenkeepers and it is a total 5h1t h0le.

 

[Smiffy]

Oh! Nearly forgot another one.....
Arras in France. What a disappointment after making that our final round during a week-end over there a few years ago playing some lovely courses.
You know how a lot of courses (mainly in Scotland) have nice romantic names for holes, like "rest and be thankful" or "Home" or "Outward Bound?"
We were naming the holes on Arras as we went round and came up with such gems as "dog shite alley" and "landfill corner"....another one I won't be heading back to.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Without doubt the Abbotsley course near St Neots in Cambirdge. Flat, featureless and soggy. Green like corrugated cardboard (bouncy soft and long), unkept bunkers, poor service and rotten food. The website when we booked said "one of the finest in the country". Not sure who was on the voting panel but clearly not golfers or anyone who had been on the course itself.

 

[theeaglehunter]

Without doubt the Abbotsley course near St Neots in Cambirdge. Flat, featureless and soggy. Green like corrugated cardboard (bouncy soft and long), unkept bunkers, poor service and rotten food. The website when we booked said "one of the finest in the country". Not sure who was on the voting panel but clearly not golfers or anyone who had been on the course itself.

You've had an easy life Homer. I have played the course mentioned and accept it is rubbish and I won't be going back (slow play was also an issue). However the worst course you have ever played? Really?! Even out of municipals or 9 holers when you first started playing?

One 9 hole course at Milton near Cambridge is about 20 times worse than Abbotsley. I am actually pmsl at the thought of your comments if you played there, seriously it is so much worse. Even flatter, more featureless badly kept etc. This is by far the worst course I have played at- it was like a punishment, the greens had stones on / in them let alone the bunkers. As for the lake they attempted to build (in construction when I played there) I cried with laughter when I saw a picture of it completed. They literally dug a hole and let it fill with rain water, whilst pilling the mud up in a huge long heap to divide two of the holes.

 

[Clansman]

Coatbridge Drumpellier municiple is ... eh ..... fields with flags on them. They have koonsil gardenrs instead of grenkeepers and it is a total 5h1t h0le.

Agreed Madandra.

Played this for the first time this year (having grown up in the area) and was very dissapointed. Council gardeners seems to be right looking at the state of the fairways and greens.