The first hole summed up the course pretty well. There were options aplenty after a generous, wide fairway let you get the ball in play. I hit a decent drive (for me) of about 230 yards and had 210 left to get home. With a creek running in diagonally from the right, two greenside traps and another bunkers about 50m short of the green, there were quite a few options.
The 3rd doglegs left at about a 45 degree angle, with the tree you can see in the right of shot positioned in the middle of the fairway about 220 yards from the tee. It’s a great bit of risk reward to try and drive past it to open up the good angle to the green, or go right of it and have the same angle, but a longer second shot, but inexplicably the area between the tree and the green is left as rough, forcing you, more or less to lay up and accept a 150ish yard shot in at an angle to the green.
The 11th was only 265 yards, but it was a cool little hole played to a plateau green with OOB behind it and bunkers looming. The closer you get to the green, the steeper the hill gets, making the little flick a bit trickier. The green has some great undulations, and a treacherous back tier that houses a pin position that’s hard to access.
The 12th reminded me a bit of 13 at The Addington, but 30 yards shorter and angled the other way at the green. Green runs hard right, so a running approach can be used to get at the right hand side pin positions hidden behind the bunker.
The 13th is another short par 4 of 264 yards, but with this odd little creek and wall in front of the green. The creek itself is only a few feet wide, and that timber wall rises up on the green side about three feet higher than the bank on the tee side, so bombing the green off the tee requires a 250-yard carry. The green has some great contours joining the three separate platforms.
Not a course that’s going to challenge the nearby Surrey courses for supremacy, but well worth a look.