nhampson48

I contacted the club Pro on the Saturday as the weather had been horrendous for days he informed me that the course is always open as it's moorland but you have to use matts off the fairway directors orders or take your shot from the rough. The forecast was better for the Sunday so we decided to make the 45min journey across from Liverpool. On arrival I booked into the pro shop and the same guy told me again about playing off matts on the fairway but this time we had to buy the matts but there was no mention of that when I called him. I queried this and his response was management policy I was appalled to say the least having to buy matts due to there issue.

Anyway got out the course and it was in good nick for the time of year and the layout was really nice it was a pain having to move your ball into the rough every time. The only issue was coming to the 7th the play got really slow having to wait for a 2 ball which seemed odd. Got to the 9th and it had taken just over 2hrs to play 8 which is a little slow, it then took us 2 1/2 hours to play 10-15 and the reason was the holes were dangerously close together from the 10th green until the 15th tee, so much so that the 11th and 12th green where yards away from the tee boxes for the next hole. The tee box for the 15th hole u actually hit over the 14th green with your drive. We decided 2 call it a day when we got to the 16th tee and there was two groups waiting on the tee which was a shame that the back 9 was so slow or it probably would have been an enjoyable round.

Really enjoyed my game at Mossock last week, we had a lot of rain leading upto the tee time but the course was in great shape and the greens best I've played on 4 a while. Only 1 or 2 negatives, the play was really slow and the 10min spacing between start was not observed as there was no starter observing this plus the discussion I heard from members of the car park was like a combat 18 meeting which I found really offensive but nothing that the club could do about that.

The course layout was superb with a wide variety of holes and a few quite long par 4s and 5s and some lovely par 3s especially the 11th 120yd from an elevated tee. Would have no qualms about playing again and probably will a few times this season