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Potters Five Lakes Resort

3.4   Golfshake Golf Course Rating 298 reviews | Post Review | Website
Price Guide: ££££

Course Information

Five Lakes Resort, Essex is a 18 hole par 72 (6767 yard) Lakes Course (Neil Coles). A resort, parkland golf course

18 holes | Par Lakes Course 72 | Lakes Course 6767 yards | Resort | Parkland


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Address: Colchester Road, Tolleshunt Knights, Maldon, Essex, CM9 8HX United Kingdom

Tel: 01621 862426

Golf Pro: Craig Lockwood

Website: http://www.pottersresorts.com


Golf Club Facilities

Driving range  Range
Buggy Hire  Buggy Hire
Golf shop  Golf Shop
Changing rooms  Changing
Clubhouse  Clubhouse
Bar  Bar
Food  Dining
Function Room Hire  Function Room
Accommodation  Accommodation

Midweek Guide: From £27.50 per round *

Weekend Guide: From £35.00 per round *

  • Societies Accepted to Play
  • Society Deals Available

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

Tee Time Information

Midweek Guide: From £27.50 per round *

Weekend Guide: From £35.00 per round *

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


Review Information


GOLFSHAKE RATING

3.39

Golfshake Golf Course Rating

 

AVERAGE RATING 3.5
(based on 298 reviews)

5 star
53
4 star
110
3 star
86
2 star
27
1 star
24
 

RECOMMENDATIONS

87%

would play again or recommend


3.5

The Course

3.6

Course Conditions

3.5

Value For Money

3.9

Pace of Play

3.7

Facilities & Service

3.9

Hospitality

3.5

Practice Facilities

3.3

Food & Drink

What the club says: The Lakes Course (Five Lakes Resort). This course, designed by Neil Coles, is used annually for regional PGA events and was the venue for the Nick Faldo Challenge. The course provides a testing examination for the better player as well as an enjoyable round for all standards. Water features strongly in the overall design of the Lakes Course, coming in to play on ten of the holes.

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David E rated 4 out of 5

Reviewed Mar 22 2024

Potters

Our first visit to potters and it was well received. The conditions due to the weather was very boggy but course was in part challenging

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Robert S rated 3.5 out of 5

Reviewed Mar 20 2024

Easy walking course. With water hazards along the fairways. The bunkers need more sand it's just a layer of sand on clay so you can not play a proper bunker shot. The greens are fine. The course was wet when we played so would be better in the summer as the holes are long and with no run on the ball it leaves a long second shot.

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Ian D rated 4.5 out of 5

Reviewed Jan 11 2024

A challenging course, where you are encouraged to hit the ball straight, as there is not much room for error. Some very tricky technical holes, and all the greens are kept to a very high standard.
The greenkeepers keep the fairways, very clean and striped. And the bunkers have "GOOD" sand which begs you to hit through it. Overall I would say this course is a good test, which is built around a number of lakes. Not a hilly course, but lots of twist and turns ahead of you.

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Nick S rated 4 out of 5

Reviewed Dec 15 2023

Played this course a few times after lockdown. Nice course.

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Stewart H rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Dec 6 2023

Great Greens

Challenging for high handicappers to play to their handicaps. Greens are well maintained and great to hit into.

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Stewart H rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Dec 4 2023

Great Greens

Challenging for high handicappers to play to their handicaps. Greens are well maintained and great to hit into.

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Simon B rated 4 out of 5

Reviewed Oct 1 2023

Great layout

Great layout, and good value as got a 30 perc discount. Course was very busy as it was a 12.30 tee time. Very slow pace of play in front. Course in great condition. But wouldnt, in my opinion, be worth paying ?40 a round as it should have been.

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Bob rated 1 out of 5

Reviewed Jul 16 2023

Have played this course a few times, also the other one ('Links', so inappropriately named and was a complete dog-track).
Glad the 'Links' has been dug up, de-comissioned, put out of its misery.
Pleased to hear that some money is now being spent on the Lakes course. Hopefully on the tees, fairawys, bunkers and greens. Otherwise it's fine. It will take some time to reverse many years of poor maintenace. I hope it will be successful because it is a good design and layout.
The pro shop there is great, fiendly and well-stocked. But nothing else for anyone wishing for any other club experience.

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Patrick C rated 3 out of 5

Reviewed Jun 11 2023

Good solid course

Some challenging holes and great layout. Fairways were generally good (with some serious damage from winter). The rough was good and has a lot of thicker stuff. As the name eludes, there is a fair amount of water but they could be incorporated a bit better on some of the pat 3s. The tee boxes were in great condition. The bunkers had some stones and the edges were not well kept. Greens were rock hard, considering this round was at the start of June I?d hate to play them towards the end of the summer.

Shout out to Dave in the pro shop. He was lovely, welcoming and very easy to chat to.

Food in the golf section was terrible. I spoke with another table and they were disappointed with their food. My chicken wasn't fully cooked and the bar was empty to begin with so didn't want to raise anything.

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Stewart H rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Mar 18 2023

Five Lakes

Greens are really good, the work they are putting in will make it one of the best courses in the region.

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Tom P rated 5 out of 5

Reviewed Mar 5 2023

Course was in good condition and seems to be getting better and better the more we play it, looking forward to summer rounds

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Andy T rated 4 out of 5

Reviewed Feb 20 2023

First time since the Potters takeover

Booked as a threesome on Saturday morning. Looking forward to seeing the changes that Potters have made to Five Lakes. Much better Pro Shop very pleasant welcome talked to one or two ladies members who said the changes were for the better..
First up the Tenth is now the first, very windy conditions and a lost ball on the first tee. Great...not
Anyway the course and greens were very good and as good as I remebered, challenging and scenic. Some very thick temporary tee boxes (where you cannot actually put a tee into? Anyways had a really enjoyable round with some old friends, my golf was not good but I enjoyed the Potters course and the new Bar and restuarant (panini and coffee was nice) . Would definiitely come again but maybe during the week.

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A Golfer rated 4.5 out of 5

Reviewed Jan 31 2023

Potters Five has two courses with very different challenges.

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Chri P rated 4.5 out of 5

Reviewed Dec 12 2022

Very good course but the lay out and holes have changed and not been updated.

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Charlie D rated 4.5 out of 5

Reviewed May 9 2022

Really fun course, plenty of hazards but good course management can see them avoided, which is key to a low score here

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