Close House

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Price Guide: £££££ | HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Course Information

Close House Golf Club, Northumberland is a 36 hole club with the 18 hole, par 70 Filly course and 18 hole, par 71 Colt Course. A private, parkland golf club designed by Scott Macpherson in 1964.

36 holes | Par The Filly 70; The Colt 71 | The Filly 6034; The Colt 6813 yards | Private | Parkland

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Address: Close House, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, NE15 0HT United Kingdom

Tel: 01661 852953

Golf Pro: Jonathan Lupton | Tel: 01661 852953

Website: http://www.closehouse.co.uk

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Accommodation

Midweek Guide: From £50.00 per round *

Weekend Guide: From £50.00 per round *

Societies Accepted to Play
Society Deals Available
7 Day Membership Available

* Any prices shown are guide prices, please confirm with the course prior to booking.

Tee Time Information

Midweek Guide: From £50.00 per round *

Weekend Guide: From £50.00 per round *

* Any prices shown are guide prices, please confirm with the course prior to booking.

Review Information

GOLFSHAKE RATING

4.44

AVERAGE RATING 4.6
(based on 127 reviews)

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HIGHLY RATED

98%

would play again or recommend

4.6

The Course

4.4

Course Conditions

4.1

Value For Money

4.4

Pace of Play

4.8

Facilities & Service

4.4

Hospitality

4.5

Practice Facilities

4.1

Food & Drink

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James B rated 4 out of 5

Reviewed Jul 2 2020

Great course

Great condition and greens fantastic. Quite an incline on a number of holes so not for the faint hearted.

(Round played: Jul 2020 - Score: 104 Handicap: 26.2)

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Alan O rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Sep 13 2019

A proper golf course

Lovely fairways, cracking views and difficult greens.

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Steven F rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Jul 27 2019

Great location, great facilities

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C B rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Jul 23 2019

Two great courses you need to play

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Neil C rated 2 out of 5

Reviewed Jul 22 2019

Your paying for the name

Clearly a very well manicured course which is very expensive to play . You are paying for the prestige of playing here as the greens are nowhere near as good as a lot of cheaper courses I have played on this year. Parklands and Linden Halls greens are much superior to these.

(Round played: Jul 2019 - Score: 104 Handicap: 20.7)

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James J rated 4 out of 5

Reviewed May 8 2019

Great golf, amazing accommodation

The package here is hard to beat, we have now been for the last two years and always love the accommodation and food/beverages. The golf courses are both lovely, funnily enough we preferred the Filly to the Colt, not even sure why. Professionalism in the range and clubhouse is superb and if they added a spa I would be back more often. Certainly worth a go.

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Paul B rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Apr 25 2019

colt course

fantastic place to visit and stay ,Colt course excellent
only downside price of the beer ,but when your here ona deal who cares

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Lee M rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Apr 24 2019

great course gem of a course

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Dominic I rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Mar 31 2019

Got to play it!

Yes it's a course still living off the British masters in 2017, but it's definitely worth playing. I got the tee at a reduced rate through work so not sure if the full price. But to say it was March the course was in fantastic condition and will only get better for the summer.

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Mark B rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Oct 13 2018

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Steven K rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Sep 4 2018

A must visit venue

Our second trip - 2 rounds with an overnight stay and breakfast for ?99 is amazing value for money considering the quality of the courses/facilities. The restaurant (service/food/drinks) for our evening meal has always been first class.

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Alan R rated 4 out of 5

Reviewed Aug 27 2018

Slightly Overrated but great nontheless

The second half of a deal we had to cancel due to bad weather in March, so as true quality hosts would, Close House rescheduled this particular round for us till the middle of season in June - Brilliant.

However, it corresponded with the England V Panama World Cup tie which (moving the tee time any golfers in our group who wanted to could watch the game) meant that after a lllooonnnggg round timewise (the course seemed very full and groups were being released off of the first tee every six minutes which meant backlogs on many of the tees) and a two hour drive back it was incredibly late by the time I got home.

As for the course and facilities - facilities are absolutely superb, from the driving range, through to the car parks, the rooms to stop over in and the bar/veranda, clubshop area - all top notch.

The course - was very nice too, as you'd expect from a venue such as this, fairways were true, as were the greens - so much so it was very easy to give the greens a little too much respect, think about the putt for far too long then play the putt too tentatively. Three putts plus were common. There was sand in the bunkers which players could play out of too. All in all it was very good as we expected but as an individual not quite as excellent as I thought it should've been. I just felt that maybe Close House was slightly over-hyped and overrated due to the British Masters being held there last year.

With this in mind I would say that there are courses we (as in our society that do these trips) have played that we have gotten on similar deals that I would return to before Close House given a straight choice between the two (Rockcliffe and Ramside are two examples).

All that said - over the two day deal we all had a great time on a great course with superb facilities and are taking greater numbers back with us for a similar deal next March.

(Round played: Jun 2018 - Score: 94 Handicap: 15.4)

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Mark H rated 4 out of 5

Reviewed Jul 27 2018

Hilly but good

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Barry L rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Jul 25 2018

Challenging Course

If you can stay out of the ever growing rough this course is a great challenge for every level of handicap golfer especially when the wind starts to blow.

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C B rated 4 out of 5

Reviewed Jul 24 2018

Two great courses worth staying and playing

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