Dalmahoy Hotel, Golf & Country Club - East Course

I booked this course last minute on a golf now hot deal and I came recommended by a local taxi driver. The course is FSI and laid out nicely and well maintained. An abnormally warm few weeks made the course hard and the balls ran on the fairways and greens. Overall I really enjoyed playing this course and wound up playing with 3 locals whom were very nice and made the round enjoyable. I was able to walk 18 and I’ve had a knee replacement in the last few years. If you’re in town it’s a well priced local course. I would go back again. One more thing the course does play long so be ready.

Treated ourselves to a round on the Championship East Course since could afford it using all my Golfpass credits! Course was excellent condition. Facilities at the hotel are good and the the starter was friendly and helpful. Once we save up will do it again!

Course was in good condition for time of year but winter tees were very far up many of the fairways

Negatives - Long walks between greens and winter tees, From normal tees this would have been a challenging course, but shortened the day I played with the odd winter green thrown in. The actual greens were slow but that suits my game LOL.
Positives - Warm welcome by all the staff, and Jimmy at the starter box was very knowledgeable and sent me out with a spring in my step.Nice way to start a round with Jimmys positive thoughts. Lucky to play on a lovely day.

Thoroughly enjoyable round on the testing East Course..

Understandable, given the time of year, there were a number of winter tees in operation but it didn’t detract from our day.

I played a round and after trying to upload it to the Scottish golf app it said that the course was not available. Therefore the round became null and void and did not count towards my handicap. I wasnot told this prior to teeing off.

Played towards the end of October, following a few days of rain. The course had held up quite well considering, although the greens were very soggy. Don't think they had been cut as a result of the weather. That said a thoroughly entertaining course, with undulating fairways and well bunkered greens. A long course off the back pegs, so forward markers for me. First time playing here, and overall I would definitely come back for another crack at it.

The layout of the course is an interesting parkland course with decent length to challenge most levels of golfer. It is also quite open and forgiving to people who are prone to squint shots.

It has superb potential but overall is let down by the standards set for tees, fairways, greens and bunkers. It looks like the greenkeeper either lacks staff and resources or doesn’t really care.

I am keeping in mind that it is October and Scotland. I play at a parkland course locally and the winter program has started there too. The difference is that we are still on the full course. Some of the tees were 100 yards forward at Dalmahoy. The greens had been sanded but didn’t look like they had bothered to hollow tine them. The overall result was that the ball plugged and stopped on approach shots and then the ball wondered everywhere when putting. It was notable that nobody had been repairing pitch marks. Clearly they thought, why bother!

I hope someone else takes over the hotel quite honestly because it has the potential to be one of the best courses near Edinburgh. I will be back but will wait for the summer months and hope that they make more effort then.

I always worry about Hotel courses, but the East Course at Dalmahoy is a delight. I adored the back 9; there's so much variety. Stunning condition too. It is however a busy course, so the earlier you play the better.

Great parkland course good challenge and nice mixture of holes .

Played as a 2 ball for the first time at Dalmahoy East and it was great!
Course was in near perfect condition for the start of the season!
Took under 4 hours and for such a long demanding course that was fine with us!
And the weather was phenomenal which always helps!
The East course is both challenging for shorter and longer hitter where it provides chances for birdies/eagles but can be penalised for finding one of the many bunkers dotted around the course!
I will definitely be back!!

Booked this on Golf Now for £21 what a steal that was. Course lay out is excellent. Not many short holes on this course and plenty of bunkers (most I have ever seen on course) so pretty demanding for a hacker like me. Really enjoyed it greens could do with a bit of work but playing early April maybe explains it.