New Rankings of GB Courses by "Value for Money"

[Adrian_Stiff]

Some of these courses are only average and very expensive (Bovey Castle) wtf is the list about. Bovey Castle must be getting close to the worse value course in the country at £70 not in the best 150? Ladybank at 2 says it all really. Far better would be a top 100 under £40. More Stinchcombe's, Kington's and Painswick's. There are plenty of them around.

[Thomas Dai]

Some of these courses are only average and very expensive (Bovey Castle) wtf is the list about. Bovey Castle must be getting close to the worse value course in the country at £70 not in the best 150? Ladybank at 2 says it all really. Far better would be a top 100 under £40. More Stinchcombe's, Kington's and Painswick's. There are plenty of them around.

Absolutely.


If you look closely at the map that's part of the most recent article, some of the courses on the list don't appear on the map. Says a bit about overall care and credibility IMO.


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[Sean_A]

Adrian

I do agree that the fees are too high for some of the courses to be considered good value, but a lot of the courses are good. Coventry and Copt Heath are the only ones I know on that list I would say are average.  That said, the conditioning of those courses is outstanding.  In my experience, these two blow away most of the high end courses I know in the UK...proving that good maintenance is down to club culture as much as money. 

Ciao

[Jon Wiggett]

Sean,

an interesting point you raise with which I agree. It shows up a common misconception that quality and VFM are linked. In my experience most of the courses that are really good value for money tend to be at the lower end in the conditioning stakes quality wise though greens should be true rolling at least. What I would say about conditioning is that it is important to play a course a few times at different times of the year and over a few years before saying it is in good condition as many inland UK courses have peaks and troughs throughout the year.

Jon

Jon

[Adrian_Stiff]

Adrian


I do agree that the fees are too high for some of the courses to be considered good value, but a lot of the courses are good.  Coventry and Copt Heath are the only one I know on that list I would say are average.  That said, the conditioning of that courses is outstanding...same for Coventry.  In my experience, these two blow away most of the high end courses I know in the UK...proving that good maintenance is down to club culture as much as money. 


Ciao

What Bovey Castle...good? Those last 6 or 7 holes must be about as bad as it get's. They wanted to change them years ago. Few pretty holes on the front nine but a minger to start with.

[Sean_A]

Adrian


I have not seen the "new" Bovey so can't comment.  The old version was short on space, but had some good holes using water...and...wait for it...trees....very well. 


Ciao