Can you help me choose which to play?
One day in the next few weeks I will have several hours to kill in the Sheffield area of England. I plan to meet my dad who lives about an hour away and play one of the local courses.
He has suggested Lindrick, I was wondering about Sitwell Park. Neither of us has played either and for fairly well-known courses information and opinions seem scanty, at least on the web. Both courses have basic websites that aren't much help in deciding which to play and both welcome week-day visitors - Sitwell Park is so welcoming it accepts two-for-one vouchers, so the green fee will be a lot less there.
What I know: Lindrick hosted the Ryder Cup and makes the top 100 in UK lists.
Sitwell Park doesn't make the lists but that is no disgrace and may be because it is fairly short, under 6000yards from the visitor tees - not a reason to put me off. A drawing of one of MacKenzie's greens there adorns the end papers of Geoff Shackelford's Masters of the Links.
I suspect we won't be disappointed whichever we go to but I was wondering if anybody here has any insights.
Cheers