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Great course and great staff who are very friendly and welcoming. The only issue I feel there is not just for Ballumbie but all courses and tee times is that they book rounds 10 minutes apart which is absolutely fine for say a 2 ball of players with a mid handicap but when you have a 4 ball of amateurs with a high handicap then there is no chance they will finish a hole in 10 minutes and it just ends up holding up the rest of the course through no fault of their own.

Courses need to be more realistic with their tee times and if they truly want to grow the game then not making high handicappers feel under pressure in every shot is a way to do it.

Ballumbie is a nice course but can't help feel a few of the holes have been ruined by the houses being built. There's constantly too much of a backlog of golfers because they don't space their tee times out very well which puts unnecessary pressure on the average to high handicap players when the group behind are say sub 10 handicaps.

It's a nice course and is usually always in great condition but they need to address the constant queue of golfers at certain points

Very good course and layout. Pace of play was good, only issue is we turned up slightly earlier than our tee time which gave us a nice little gap between ourselves and the next tee time but the course staff just allowed someone to jump in right behind us who ended up right up our backsides.

Played this course a few times and always enjoyed it. Was here on Sunday 6th August and the lady working in the starters box was very friendly. The only issue was the incredibly slow pace of play but I think this seems to be a tee off times issue where they take bookings 10mins apart without considering stuff like a single player or a twoball being stuck behind 3 x fourballs.

Piperdam is a great course with lots of variety, friendly staff and decent green fee's. Would definitely recommend this course