stevie_r
Tour Winner
A question I often pondered myself.
Worst course you have played?
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A question I often pondered myself.
Deke
Journeyman Pro
I too,wish to know! Come on BigSlice,help us oot!
Scadge
Head Pro
I have played a few courses I would consider to be awful but in a couple of cases that was down to the location and funding which was pretty unique so the course on Ratcliffe Power Station in Nottingham is a flat glorified par 3 with tiny bunkers and no character but it is part of the social fabric of the power station and maintained by them. Similarly before demolition one of the other Power Stations had a course with a cooling tower on the corner of a dogleg which was fun to hit given the random bounce you could expect of the parabolic shape of the tower.
However, my personal favourite hell hole is Widney Manor, a dull, relatively new nothing of a course where many of the par fours can be hit in one, which is near the M42 so as to avoid any hope of peace and quiet, where there is a hole with such a sharp dogleg that you could chip over the corner instead of hitting proper shots and the test of golf is so absent that on both occasions I have played it I have been 10 under my handicap. Even using it to take novices from work on a players and hackers challenge has been fantastically rewarded with near 5 hour rounds behind folks whose etiquette is startlingly absent and who made our hackers seem like pros. Bizarrely when you join another club you can play Widney Manor for free, but such is the punishment that I think they would command a greater membership fee without this "incentive".
However, my personal favourite hell hole is Widney Manor, a dull, relatively new nothing of a course where many of the par fours can be hit in one, which is near the M42 so as to avoid any hope of peace and quiet, where there is a hole with such a sharp dogleg that you could chip over the corner instead of hitting proper shots and the test of golf is so absent that on both occasions I have played it I have been 10 under my handicap. Even using it to take novices from work on a players and hackers challenge has been fantastically rewarded with near 5 hour rounds behind folks whose etiquette is startlingly absent and who made our hackers seem like pros. Bizarrely when you join another club you can play Widney Manor for free, but such is the punishment that I think they would command a greater membership fee without this "incentive".
Karl102
Journeyman Pro
Newcastle United Golf Club is on my list. On a 36 hole trip via 'your golf travel' they put us here and at Gosforth (which was ok). Was nothing more than a scruffy muni in poor condition... Felt quite bad as had organised of for my bros stag do. At least I was too hungover to remember most of it!
Hugely surprised by this.
NUGC is always in good nick and is a decent test of golf.Must have been outside May to September surely? If not you have been terribly unfortunate.
Karl102
Journeyman Pro
I was surprised as it was a your golf travel trip! I was about 3 years ago and I haven't been back that way to try it again. It was In April and fairways were not that great and greens were poor, that coupled by a frosty welcome in the shop (something I'm defo not used to from you Geordies
Maybe should give it another go!
ArnoldArmChewer
Tour Winner
Bead low manor was dreadful when I last played it, dreadful layout in terrible condition.
6inchcup
Journeyman Pro
played a few shockers over the years,mersey valley (flat,no watering system so rock hard,notorious for getting clubs nicked from cars etc),st michaels in widnes (now gladly closed due to being built on a chemical dump and deemed unsafe,the top soil was a few millimetres deep then just house bricks,),fiddlers ferry (just shocking),blackpool north shore(the most boring course in the world)
bigslice
Tour Winner
it is my away course but them legs are not mine, although some pals think it is me.
bigslice
Tour Winner
Nudist beach ?
there is a nudist beach along from my away course, its got nice views
Deke
Journeyman Pro
garyinderry
Ryder Cup Winner
im going to leave muni courses out as they provide cheap golf to the masses. for that, i applaud them.
mersey valley bored me to tears. it was so flat and the holes unimaginative.
mersey valley bored me to tears. it was so flat and the holes unimaginative.
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guest100718
Guest
There was a place called Milbrook ner Newgate Street...it was pretty much a cow field...! Its closed now.
chrisd
Major Champion
Sorry to have been out all day and missed out being the one to register the goatist goatrack I've ever had the misfortune to spend time at - Lydd - even the name is awful!!
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guest100718
Guest
lol Lydd was the first one posted
BTatHome
Tour Winner
Yep 18 holes now, and spread over either side of the road. Best bit is during farborough airshow when you have the odd Vulcan jet passing over, or a f16 on afterburner.
To be honest its a short course and still goes under water (they have extra hole that they replace the 17th with when the fairway becomes a bog). Need to go back to play though cos I reckon I could murder it now. Greens were quite nice if I remember correct though.
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thecraw
Guest
Whiting Bay is no where near the worst course ever and shouldn't be mentioned anywhere near this thread.
stevie_r
Tour Winner
Surely you must be mistaken, their own web site states, and I quote 'Lydd Golf course is fast becoming regarded as one of the finest in Kent'.
Which just goes to show that club web sites in the main talk cobblers. Virtually every course web site within 30 miles of me begins with 'acknowledged to be possibly the finest course in the West of Scotland
chrisd
Major Champion
Yep - One of the finest goat tracks!
tyke
Head Pro
Mount Pleasant Airfield in the Falkland Islands, that's it guys close the thread!!!
PS - I can assure you there is nothing worse.
PS - I can assure you there is nothing worse.