Worst golf course that you have played/visited!

Petworth Downs, Osiers Farm, nr Petworth when I played it in 1994. It had just moved from a 9 holer to 18 hole track. First nine were ok but the second were, let's say, incomplete: sticking flags in random flat areas of long grass is not an exaggeration. Also managed to hit a roaming pig on the ar$e with a drive.
 
In my area (West Hertfordshire/Middlesex/Bucks) the worst courses are Grimsdyke and Iver, closely followed by Harefield Place. :)
 
Unfortunate for me the worst condition golf course I've ever played was my track this weekend Nazeing golf club. Very, very poor tee boxes, clover ridden fairways and dead greens was very disappointed.

New track needed ASAP can't stomach that.....
 
Funny how so many of these courses have very 'grand' names.

For me.
Thames Ditton & Esher. in England
Benbecula in Scotland...........probably the worst course in the universe.
 
These two are woeful

http://www.brandonandthevillagegolfcourses.co.uk/brandon/index.html

Typical farmers field courses where no course design skills have been sought at all. First and last time I played one of them one of the greens was a huge two tiered affair, with the hole cut on the slope. Started at the top of the green, missed the hole at a snails pace and ended 20 foot away. Then if you didn't hole the return putt it just rolled back to you. Gave up after a while.
 
The courses at the Ashbury Manor hotel would have to be up there based on my last experience a couple of years ago. They used to be OK but last time I went they had really gone downhill. It's a shame because it used to be a decent layout but they have gotten a bit big for themselves and can't keep up with the maintainence. On top of that, the quality of food is awful and the beer is too expensive.

It used to be great for a group of golfers who went to play golf and have a beer in the evening, now it's great for a group of drinkers who go to drink and play golf in the day.
 
Middleton Hall in Norfolk is up there with the worst I have played...some frankly awful holes!
 
The Pines golf course in Dumfries. The only course I've ever played where I've vowed never to return. Hopefully it's shut now and turned into a potato field as that's all it's good for.
 
murphthemog said:
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.
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Just to prove how subjective things are, that course is my favourite out of all the courses I've played and I thought that par 5 was brilliant.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Guess I'm including the welcome from the staff there which I thought was shocking - piling on people on the course and watching the buggies go all over the place and not letting 2balls through. Maybe a bit harsh on the course but still in my bottom 3
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I had a similar experience at Tudor Park, which is quite similar in standard and part of the same chain. Won't bother going back.

It's not the worst course, but I'd put it in my bottom three for overall experience.
 
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