Darren Ramowski (21)

Played this course end of November 2011. The course was in excellent condition for the time of year, full tees in use, grassy non muddy fairways and worthy greens. You could see the greens had been recently aerated (other reviews note this) but were in good condition all things taken into account.

Clubhouse and facilities were nice and welcoming and the staff were all extremely friendly, especially so given they had recently been through a very busy spell after a high use of a Groupon deal.

The range is also very good with good use of a target system to encourage juniors but also the rest of use with some effective practice!

A great all round venue and worthy of a round any time of the year.

(Round played: 29-Nov-2011 - Score: 103 Handicap: 20)

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Looks set to be a great course with playing. Relatively new so will mature but already some stand out holes. Few long walks between holes.

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You can almost see Blackpool tower on a clear day and on a still day hear the sounds of the nearby zoo.

The golf course is well laid out with some nice hole variation but provides nice rewards for the straight hitters. Lots of bunkers and some nice challenge over water.

18th is a nice finishing hole coming up to the club house.

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Played here with a member.Nice established track with a nice established members club feel but with a 21st century relaxed feel.



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Nice value for money course, nothing massively stands out for my but saying that I have played the course twice.

Not a long course nor that hilly but does have some nice risk and reward holes and a course worth a visit.

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Cracking course with 27 holes over 3 loops of 9 making multiple options when you play, which for us meant 9 in the morning followed by 18 holes after lunch.

Great value for money and a very friendly and relaxed clubhouse and staff. Well worth a visit.

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Always a course I enjoy to play, well laid out and a nice fair test of golf not too tough but many risk and reward holes if you want to have a go at posting a score.

Played in Oct 2011, given previous days rain the course was in excellent condition with lush fairways, true and responsive greens and all round very well maintained.

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Great facilities and nice course. When we played greens were in good nick and course well looked after.

Just about good value for money but worth it if you can get a 2 for 1 or teeofftimes offer.

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Cracking course in Northampton and excellent value for money.

I played in the middle of summer and despite the dry weather the fairways were holding up well which I guess was from hard work by the course stuff. The greens were exceptional, slick and true.

Great facilities and pro shop plus friendly staff and members.

The clubhouse included a veranda and upper balcony/function room which I would imagine is great for comps/societies because you can view both the 9th and 18th greens.

Highly recommend.


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Great course in the middle of a deer park!

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Great course and great venue for a overnight break. Good location to Edinburgh and Airport.

Greens in good great condition and nice test of golf.

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I always like to play this course, great challenge and test of golf. Some say hard but just requires some thinking which makes it even better. A few walks between green to tee so not a fast 4 hour round and buggies could be worthwhile to some.

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Great course in Nottingham, fantastic well kept greens.

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Great understated course almost in the middle of nowhere!

Set in the grounds of Stapleford Park the course is fairly new but already host to the Seniors Tour and an absolute hidden gem. When we played we were shocked at how quiet it was with no sound of traffic or anything else which is generally hard to find with English courses.

Some pretty tough greens but in superb condition and lots of well placed rough (tough wispy stuff), oob and water.

Kind of inland linksy but a treat to play. They accept 2 for 1s so great way to get the cost down when the course is less busy.


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Great course and within a deer park! It's worth playing but better value can be had within the area.

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Awesome wedge's really love them, convert to use of full set of wedges now having previously just used a PW

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Played the Longcross in May and July 2009, wow! Absolutely fantastic from start to finish. Exceptional facilities, friendly and welcoming course and one of the best courses I've ever played.

Very very tree lined which makes for accurate tee shots, so straightness is key off the tee. The greens were is fantastic condition and very quick.

Great days golf (playing) even if mine wasn't up to scratch. Will definitely be going back to play again and try out the Bernard Hunt.

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Great course and nice layout. Not the hardest or most testing course but nicely set-up and laid out to make it interesting and worthy of playing.

The Golfshake.com North vs South 2010 match will take place here and it will certainly be a great matchplay venue with many risk and reward holes.

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Played the Par 3 course during the cold Winter months of Dec 2008.

Fantastic given the time of year and we also played off the full greens!

Good value for money and although a Par 3 18 hole course it's a good test and makes a nice change to the full 18 hole course at Ramsdale.

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Played here in the Summer months early on a Tuesday morning ans was looking enough to get a special deal for under £20 per person.

Good course, not to long and enjoyable. Not quite a true links test given the roman banks but it can still get blustery given it's open layout, and I still managed to lose one towards the beach!

Small but friendly Pro shop and nice and welcoming clubhouse. Definitely worth a visit if you are in the area and looking for a value for money round.

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Fairly new course in golfing terms which hosted the British Masters a few years back.

Set within a new housing development which is a little Wentworthish so control off the tee is required or you end up in someone's back garden!

Fantastic, venue, clubhouse, service and course which is definitely worth a visit and only 3 minutes off the M1.

Well designed course and nicely laid out only minor issues is the control required off the tee and the walk from the 9th to the 10th. The 18th is a fantastic signature hole par 5 island green overlooked by the clubhouse and clubhouse balcony!


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Nice course on the side of an old quarry. Surprisingly well designed and laid out.

Currently maturing but worth a visit especially for the price and give it a few more years and it will be a fantastic course.

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My first experience of a links course and what a fantastic experience it was. A real course and true test of golf and some fantastic greens.

Going out the holes hug the coast line and you get the real links experience with some strange wind conditions making for some strange golf. Playing links is also fascinating how conditions change on each hole in terms of wind speed and direction.

The final few holes move away from the shoreline which gives a much needed and easier route in although the well places gorse bushes and bunkers still can catch you out!

Fantastic day out and well worth a visit. Definitely an hidden gem on the North coast of Wales

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Organised a golfshake.com event back in March 2008. Great course and facilities and course in excellent condition. Greens were very good and very true.

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Good corporate venue with 2 courses. Played the Lakes in April 2008.

Does seem to get fairly busy and although you start with a par 5 so everyone seems to get off well, you tend to get held up on the par 3 second.



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What can I say, James Bond regular top events. This course is fantastic.

Facilities are great and the practice area supplies the balls!

Can't really comment on the price given I played in a Corporate event but this is a course worth playing if you get the chance.

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Good course although can be very hilly in places, so bear this in mind and consider trollies or a buggy.

Some fantastic holes and the viaduct holes is very good risk or reward type hole.

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Fantastic course and venue.

Played in a society day on a cold November morning. The staff and facilities were great, very well priced for a society.

The fairways were in great condition and given the time of year the greens were fantastic and all ran very true. We'd also just started to have some frost and due to some good course management we still managed to play on full tees and greens. Definitely worth a repeat visit.

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Played in Feb08 on a very cold and frosty day. Course was in excellent condition, played off mats but on full greens for the time of year, although some greens very hard and frozen.

Overall this was a great course and some nice challenging holes nothing to mundane, varied and a good test. The greens were exceptionally difficult and like up turned tea saucers which made putting tricky also very large which is the reason for my high number of 3 putts!

Definitely worth a visit especially as they take 2 for 1's.


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Played in Jan 2008 after very heavy rain. Greens were in great condition.

Nice open course when we played although some fairways are fairly tight. Very flat course so makes for an easy track to get round which made for a very enjoyable round when we played. Looking forward to going back and playing in the summer.

Great course, well kept and great reception from the members.

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Not a bad little course for a 9 hole practice round. Decent mix of par 3's and 4's some nice features and very good value.

Nice size club house, excellent driving range and they also have a small shop. Fairly close to the city so I think they a pretty big on tuition.

They also introduced a small par 3 course a while back but I've never played.

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Given the time of year and weather conditions this was not a bad course for the price and on a 2 for 1 in Jan 2008.

The greens impressed me, similar priced courses in the area have terrible greens, here there were no temp greens, all greens were pretty dry, well drained and seemed true.

Also the course was fairly open so made the fairways seem wide and at times you didn't even know a hole had any rough.

Only drawback was some tees/greens seemed to cross over which I would guess when the course is busy this causes hold ups, I played when it was very quiet so not a problem.


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Great course, was in excellent condition in November despite some heavy rain. Having played this a few years ago I was concerned about parts of the course being water logged. They have definitely done some great work with drainage and the course was in excellent condition.

Nice course with some interesting holes and set in fantastic surroundings of the Derbyshire countryside.

Club, members was very friendly and welcoming. Definitely worth a visit back especially at £17.50 for mid week rounds and you can use 2 for 1.

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Priory is a good course with some interesting holes especially the signature hole on the back 9 over a road from an elevated tee.



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Nice little course for testing areas of your game. For a local council run course the condition is not to bad.

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Played on the 6th Sep 2007 on a very humid and hot sunny day.

The course was in fantastic condition, lush fairways and very well kept greens which were extremely true. The greens are superb and some of the best in the East Mids.

To say the course is only 20 years old it's very mature with a lot of tree lined fairways making this a good challenge for all golfers.

This would make a great venue for a competition or society day.

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I played this course in the golfshake.com event in May 2007. Despite all the rain we had had the course was in excellent condition, greens were good and true and fairways well kept. I found the front 9 okay but tough going on the back 9 given the length of the course.

Great facilities given it's a hotel and conference venue as well as a golf course. Definiately worth a visit.

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Very nice and forgiving

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Love it. Gives a nice clean smooth putting stroke, great line and soft feel impact

Took me a few rounds to adjust to get used to the insert.

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You pay for what you get really, purchased a set from on e of the leading sports retailer so fairly good value for money but clubs not that great.

Wouldn't recommend this driver it's okay but feel as though power is lost at impact. I can hit a 3 iron almost as far and using a old Callaway Big Bertha from 5 years with a 270ish cc head I can out drive it.

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Nice quality ball

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Played the PGA and what a feeling to hit a straight 200 yard first tee shot of the first hole when you have 16 people and the start waiting round the tee.

This is a good course and would test most golfers with the layout and range of bunkers. Given it's the Belfry the facilities were second to none.

Can't really comment on price because I was playing through Corporate membership

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Played this course in June 2007, course was in great condition greens really good. Could have done with some slight repair on the tees.

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Played this course in Oct 2006 in a GST society day. Unforuntately for everyone playing it was near torrential rain for the whole day which also meant trollies/buggies banned. Despite this the course allowed hedeghog trollies on the course and given I was organising a society day the club was in contact with me several days before on the course conditions.

Overall the course was in good condition and played well
Great facilities, great course and great friendly staff.

Only critism I would have it that there is a long walk from the 9th to the 10th tee and guess that this is because the venue is first and foremost a hotel/conference center and the golf course came 2nd, so the holes got dropped in where possible

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Oh heck this course was long ! Don't think it helped playing in near gale force conditions in October.

Overall an excellent course in North notts.

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For a municipal course this is a very reasonable and generally well kept course. Although a few fairways had tyre tracks on them from motorcycles deciding it would be good to see if they could burn circles in the turf.

Played this course in December and despite the conditions the course played well. Also the course was going through a hole change but hadn't updated the scorecards so this made it slightly difficult knowing where to go and scoring for visitors.

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Played in a GST society day in Feb 2007 after several weeks of rain.

Obviously in Feb playing off mats and some temp greens in force. The front 9 was very wet(boggy) but okay and suprisingly the back 9 was completly different with no temp greens and playing well.

Definitely worth a visit in nicer weather, the facilities were great but could do with a range.

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Everytime I play this course the layout changes. The reduction from 18 to 9 holes is good given you can get a quick round in and with it being a par 3 the holes have increased. Now over half are over 120 yards so you get to use longer irons where previously the longest hole was 120yards.

Worth playing to improve your short game over 9 holes but a bit pricey for what it is.

Greens well kept.

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Unfair to comment really, the club is going through a lot of changes and development at present so the pro shop and bar where in temp use and work is still ongoing on the Masters courses.

For the time of year and given all the recent rain the course was in generally good condition. Greens were sporadic and some winter tees in use.

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