Is the Oxford Golf Club the course I used to know as Southfield? In which case 100% agreement: I always really liked the pair of long two-shot holes (5th and 6th?) at the top which were on rumpled ground that could have been (say) at Hoylake, and there are some super short holes. Just don't play there after too much rain...it was always (sadly) infamous for mud, and often rudely juxtaposed with The Sacred Nine by way of contrast (back in the days when it, rather than Huntercombe, was the home course of the Oxford University Golf Club).
Yes, it is. They changed the name to Oxford GC a few years ago, about the same time as they butchered the eighteenth hole by installing a lake. Nice course, Southfield, I was a member for a short while when I lived in the area. But I don't think it will be around forever. The development pressure on Oxford is too strong, and the golf club's next door neighbour is the Churchill Hospital, where I was an outpatient for many years. I fear the course will at some point fall victim to a combination of hospital and housing development.
You're right about it being wet from time to time, Richard. Henry Longhurst, describing his own home course in Bedford, wrote: "The only muddier course was perhaps Southfield in Oxford, at which the University played their home matches. The tenth hole was about six hundred straight yards of absolutely damn-all and evoked from a distinguished Walker Cup player, Rex Hartley, visiting it for the first time on a foggy, drizzly day in February, the immortal comment, 'Only two clubs to play this hole with. A rifle and a spade.'"