Macdonald Portal Hotel, Golf & Spa - Championship Course

I played this course years ago and I doubt any improvements were done since then..

The course needed serious investment years before COVID..

Waterlogged, fairways in poor condition..

I came off the course with thick mudstains up to my knees...

The next time will be when it's 80f+ but I doubt the course will cope with that either..

Course layout is excellent and greens were very good, Tee boxes are an absolute disgrace, a lot of them have no grass just the divot marks as if they haven't been moved for months, other tees are not flat ball above or below your feet, another hotel that's letting it's course's go to rack and ruin, very sad/poor.

At £25 it was ok value. Course ok. Bunkers hadn’t seen a rake for a long time. Fairways needed a cut.

Good layout, good test, some great holes
Buggy was dirty and not up to standard of everything else

This is a really well designed course some picturesque
Holes an intelligently planned out course. In terms of the condition props to the green keeper and the the team a well maintained course I can barely find a pitch mark on the green or divot in the fairway.

We have played both courses in the space of a week and would highly recommend both loved the full 18 on both but especially 1 par 3 on each - amazing
We didn't need one but a buggy might of been nice to have in parts
We didn't stay at the hotel so can't comment there but what we seen of it it looks nice
But 5* for the golf

Lovely course, lovely staff, great amenities but had to walk off after 13 holes (4 hours to play 13 holes with the sun low in the sky, wind blowing a gale and no good scorecards among us)

Mentioned when returning the buggy about it taking us 4 hours to play 13 holes and was told that was standard at the weekend. We even let the 2 ball behind us join us as we felt that bad about the waiting around

Course is a great challenge, long and well set out, unfortunately greens haven't been in best condition last few visits

Great setting and lovely walk and that was as good as it got!
Greens were a disgrace
Disgusting to be even open if maintenance like this is going on !

Played. In early October, after a some heavy rain the week earlier, so as expected the fairways were a little soft but very playable ,greens were in good condition and thoroughly enjoyed the round would recommend

This course was challenging at times and is rather long. 4:45 for a 2 ball with no buggies and only waited to tee off once on a par 3.
Pin placements need a word as several holes had pins a couple of feet from the fringe and were on slops or hills, one hole had the pin 2 feet from a bunker to the right of the green with the left side of green being raised and the rest of the 300m2 of green was up as small slope and then pretty flat but contoured in sections. Might sound challenging but not when some of greens were huge and had a lot more to offer in terms of the approach rather than on the green itself. Almost as though the holes had been placed by someone who was reading instructions and doesn’t play golf. By the 3rd time we noticed it we started looking for the old hole placements to see if it was a common thing. The fact we could find like several old hole placements on most holes tells you a lot. Also a lot of damage around the cups from the flags was also a small issue.
Fairways all nice.
Tees were all ok.
No buggies available.
Poor selection at snacks in the pro shop.
Lake balls available
Nice practice green.
Driving net and chipping area.

Wanted to play this course for some time. Greens were responsive but a little slow for me. Biggest issues was the volume of people playing, we had to wait on every shot. Too many society bookings so would recommend a late afternoon tee off, we teed off early am.