Worst golf course that you have played/visited!

[shivas irons]

Why Sprowston LP? never thought it was that bad tbh

Not that bad at all ive played it many times.

 

[Hack-Man-Hob]

I haven't played a vast amount of courses so I'm not really in a posistion to pick a really bad one but I'm going to anyway.

For me it would have to be Bolmere Golf Club in Sutton Coldfield, it is a muni so you get what your given but at the same time the layout and design is awful.

Here's the scorecard which will give you an idea of what I mean...

That 240 yard par 3 is a blind tee shot over a hill :mmm:

Ha ha haaa I love that hole man! Always kids down the hill robbing the balls and hiding in the bushes. To be fair its in alot better condition these days than it was a few years ago, still a weird layout though

 

[MC72]

I often say that there is no such as a bad golf course for as long as it is open, is used and provides a service to some, that is fine, but there are many that I wouldn't go back to in a month of Sundays. Saying that though, a course can be absolutely awful in winter and be the bee's knees in Summer, likewise, a change of ownership/managership can work wonders either way. So, let us hear all the bad ones that you have seen. I will start with two absolute shockers down her in Dorset, both now long dead, Mid-Dorset, thence renamed Dorset G & CC in a attempt to make it more socialble. Sadly the problem here lied immediately from the design of the course - it really was awful in all respects, impossible holes, stupid long walks, and this together with half the course like walking through a marsh in winter. On top of that, the clubhouse was awfull, upside down and with hardly any changing facilities. Inloved and was never going to be a success as it was just so unenjoyable.
The other course not lamanted by many is Lyons gate, a 9 hole tract hewn out of steep rolling Dorset hills and woodland. The farmers had the right idea in trying to provide a facility for lerners and starter golf, but in truth, I would have thought that this one would have put more 1st timers off than got them into the game. Ridiculous greens on a 1 in 4 slope, insidious rough just off the fairways, an impossible par 4,....the list goes on!. The owner did say to me whilst viewing a 5 ball coming off the course in wellington boots (literally!), that is what we are here for! - well that statement is well OK, had it not been for the completely awful holes that one had to endure (Even at one time had an OOB in front of a par 3 as it was deemed a nature reserve!)
So there you are for starters!

Calderbraes Uddingston, horrendous 9 hole course with no par 5s and no redeeming features.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Are you talking about the same Dorset Golf & Country club I went to last year and am going back to this year? I went in September, none of the holes are impossible, we have buggies but I don't remember any long drives between holes, the clubhouse is nice with decent food and beer and it wasn't at all boggy. They also have a large changing room. If you're talking about this one...

http://www.dorsetgolfresort.com

...you either have very high expectations, are very bad at golf or it's gone downhill rapidly in 9 months.

 

[D4RK1]

Ha ha haaa I love that hole man! Always kids down the hill robbing the balls and hiding in the bushes. To be fair its in alot better condition these days than it was a few years ago, still a weird layout though

Its a great hole. The one after is also a good par 3. I like boldmere but I guess its because it's where I started to learn the game. It's very short and the lay out is poor. That's all changing tho I've heard. The clubhouse is moving to where the 17th is. Not sure when the work is taking place.

 

[nemicu]

Manor of Groves in Sawbridgeworth - awful.

 

[Jensen]

Ravensworth Golf Course in Gateshead. Second hole blind par 3 about 120 yards to a bowl green, ridiculous. Some other blind holes where the ground slopes away. Also the course splits a road where you have to go through 2 tunnels which are spray painted like something from 1980's New York. Tunnels have broken glass and used syringes - lovely. Oh and then there are no rakes so you have to cart one round with you all day as the kids nick em, along with your golf balls !
What a dump.

 

[Dodger]

Oceanico Faldo course.

Faldo should not be allowed to design golf courses if this is what he comes up with. It looked pretty, but you had no idea what to do on most of the tees. No idea what the strategy should be, as most of the hazards were hidden from view, and a fair number of blind drives.

On a 660 yard par 5, I expect to be able to hit a driver. It was a blind drive over a mound. I nailed it, bang on the line I had chosen, and ran out of fairway, never to be seen again. In retrospect, I should have hit a 4i. Even the strokesaver didn't give a yardage to the end of the fairway, so unless you had played it before you had no idea what was going to happen. My line was perfect, but about 50 yards too long.

Lay off the drugs.

 

[User20205]

Are you talking about the same Dorset Golf & Country club I went to last year and am going back to this year? I went in September, none of the holes are impossible, we have buggies but I don't remember any long drives between holes, the clubhouse is nice with decent food and beer and it wasn't at all boggy. They also have a large changing room. If you're talking about this one...

http://www.dorsetgolfresort.com

...you either have very high expectations, are very bad at golf or it's gone downhill rapidly in 9 months.

No mate it's a decent set up, he's been smoking the crack !!!

Maybe it used to be poor but the layout and the clubhouse look pretty established to me.

The other fella who said broadstone is a poor course has been on the same pipe !!

The worst course I've played.. I've liked them all in one way or another, even Royal Iford Bridge, has a bit of charecter.

I expected more of the 2010, but it's not a bad course, and that's a different thread

 

[Oddsocks]

Chipstead.

No spike bar
Silly short par 4's at 230/240yards
Waste of a land hole on the side of of hill 45* slope
Worst greens I've ever played
Some of the worst tee's to match
Too many par 3's ... 6 or 7.

Course was that bad they tried to raffle a free 4 ball with breakfast and lunch thrown in and the best offer was £55 quid, that bad a committee member bid £200 to save embarrassment

Would not return unless we pulled then in a inter club comp and I had no choice but to play.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Oceanico Faldo course.

Faldo should not be allowed to design golf courses if this is what he comes up with. It looked pretty, but you had no idea what to do on most of the tees. No idea what the strategy should be, as most of the hazards were hidden from view, and a fair number of blind drives.

On a 660 yard par 5, I expect to be able to hit a driver. It was a blind drive over a mound. I nailed it, bang on the line I had chosen, and ran out of fairway, never to be seen again. In retrospect, I should have hit a 4i. Even the strokesaver didn't give a yardage to the end of the fairway, so unless you had played it before you had no idea what was going to happen. My line was perfect, but about 50 yards too long.

Would agree with your comments about this course and add the fact that we had to play the last 3 holes dodging the sprinklers it was not a pleasurable experience.

 

[Dodger]

Would agree with your comments about this course and add the fact that we had to play the last 3 holes dodging the sprinklers it was not a pleasurable experience.

Get off those drugs.

It has a few blind shots and grated the Par 5 Murph refers to isn't the best but it is always in mint condition and many of the holes are cracking risk and reward.

Reviews seem to disagree with you both.....http://www.top100golfcourses.co.uk/htmlsite/productdetails.asp?id=2057

Never in a trillion years a contender for 'Worst Golf Course'.

 

[williamalex1]

Westerwood gc Cumbernauld, the clubhouse is top class, but the Seve designed course is a dump.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Get off those drugs.

It has a few blind shots and grated the Par 5 Murph refers to isn't the best but it is always in mint condition and many of the holes are cracking risk and reward.

Reviews seem to disagree with you both.....http://www.top100golfcourses.co.uk/htmlsite/productdetails.asp?id=2057

Never in a trillion years a contender for 'Worst Golf Course'.

Agreed with Murph's comments about the course but it is nowhere near one of my worst. (Should have made it clear in the post though) A five and a half hour round also soured our day (which is why the sprinklers came into action). As for it being it the top 100 though; whoever wrote that must have been on drugs.

 

[Laka]

In UK its Charlesland and Minehead for our concern!!!

 

[LCVreg]

Yep, agree, Broadstone is without doubt the best,most gorgeous course in Dorset - every hole different, and always a test - as i mentioned when starting this thread, courses can go up and down in a very short period, and obviously Broadstone has gone through a difficult period - I wonder why they had such an inundation - I hope it wasn't because they got rid of all the wildlife that keeps these crane flies at bay - a few years ago, a course in Monmouth/Gloucs area shot all the corvids on their course - they then had to close the course later on for 3 weeks due to the damage done to the course by the crane flies - and what keeps them at bay, Crows, Rooks and the like - let nature control nature!

 

[LCVreg]

Oops - Freudian error - I meant to type Dorset Heights GC - Certainly not Dorset G & CC, a vastly improved 27 holed layout near Wareham.

Are you talking about the same Dorset Golf & Country club I went to last year and am going back to this year? I went in September, none of the holes are impossible, we have buggies but I don't remember any long drives between holes, the clubhouse is nice with decent food and beer and it wasn't at all boggy. They also have a large changing room. If you're talking about this one...

http://www.dorsetgolfresort.com

...you either have very high expectations, are very bad at golf or it's gone downhill rapidly in 9 months.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Chipstead.

No spike bar
Silly short par 4's at 230/240yards
Waste of a land hole on the side of of hill 45* slope
Worst greens I've ever played
Some of the worst tee's to match
Too many par 3's ... 6 or 7.

Course was that bad they tried to raffle a free 4 ball with breakfast and lunch thrown in and the best offer was £55 quid, that bad a committee member bid £200 to save embarrassment

Would not return unless we pulled then in a inter club comp and I had no choice but to play.

I'd just about got rid of the mental scar of playing that goat track, why did you have to remind me!

 

[Essex_Stu]

Manor of Groves in Sawbridgeworth - awful.

Please share. A mate brought a four ball voucher in a charity auction and has invited me. Might give it a swerve if it is bad.

 

[Oddsocks]

I'd just about got rid of the mental scar of playing that goat track, why did you have to remind me!

Terrible course.... Think I'd rather not play!