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First time visit to Kilworth springs for me and what a beautiful course, lush and green throughout and very well maintained. Lovely mix of holes, some more challenging than others, the 12th across the water is an instagram moment in itself. Very impressed as you can tell and going back on Friday with my son in law. The Warwickshire is my yardstick for great courses in the midlands and this comes close. Fantastic value at £20 for a round as well.

First time here. Hellidon lakes would appear to be actually three 9 holes courses that can be combined in different ways. We played "Lakes" and then "Valley" which seemed to be the golfing equivalent of a "game of two halves". Starting at hole 10 for the Lakes course we were impressed by the overall quality of the course, beautiful surroundings, challenging greens, clearly maintained to a high standard with a number of cunning features that gave the impression that this had been well designed. It also became clear pretty quickly that we were going to get fit on this course, to say it was "up hill and down dale" would be an understatement, a swiss passport and some crampons would have not gone amiss at times. The last par three hole, across the valley and water to a green on the side of a hill, was challenging to say the least, providing much entertainment to the guests in the hotel complex bar above overlooking one's vein attempts to get a ball over and for it to remain in the same postcode without rolling down the hill.
The valley course, holes 1-9, was a stark contrast, whilst by no means unacceptable it was clearly maintained to a different standard. Noticeably the signage and maintenance of the course was completely different. An on course guide, similar to those provided on the Lakes course, as to the water feature in front of hole three (Marston) would have been useful for example. Hole 7 was entitled "Fecknoe" which is presumably what a golfer of Irish decent might say when driving the ball slightly right and thus into the water. There is another nine hole course called "Hellidon" here and I would like to experience that next time along with the lakes and leave out "Valley". If Lakes and Hellidon are at the same standard, this will provide an excellent days golf.