Phil9400752

I found the greens didn't roll consistent or true perhaps a result of earlier aeration.
This course is always a treat to play and is strategically layout rewarding tee shots hit in the correct side of the fairway.
Play the correct tees for your skill set and you will be rewarded with a chance at birdies on par 5s.
Golfnow rate of 95.00 is about right for fall conditions.
Give it a try at a lower rate get a feel for the course then try it mid summer and the higher rates won't feel as penalizing.

Biggest problem here is the pace of play. Staff is great but don't do anything to mitigate pace by allowing singles to go off back to back with a 2some in front of them also ???
A lot of seniors play here which actually is not the problem, it is the starter allowing singles to play one time slot while the other single is waiting to tee of right behind them ...what?
Then there are those marshals who drive in front of tee shots or parked and looking for balls in the long grasses !!
Then the hot shot single who plays thru without asking because his time is more important than everyone else.

Everyone should be able to enjoy a round whether it's a cheap one or a more costly one. I blame the course for not managing the first hole.
Of course I still play once in awhile, because it's close and I generally try to get off early. But, it's only at best a $40.00 course not $50.00 with cart.
I bring beginners and teach them the etiquette of golf buy pointing out what others are doing wrong, which is easy to find on this course.

Great day for golf ... we were informed that it was cart path only today. I was taken back and asked why .. " because of all the rain yesterday" hmmm if royal woodbine can't handle a day of rain off and on ?
I figured they knew best ... the course was fine and didn't warrant cart path only !
Use at least 90 degrees rule ... I found it difficult to get good yardages also noticed marshals up the wazzooo.
4some in front of us we're walking around like chickens with no heads.
Poor decision by administration .. 90 degree would have sufficed, course was fine.

Pleasant course, challenging. ..
Booked through golf now to find out at pro shop that I could have saved booking fee and would have had a breakfast by booking thru the course itself. .. I would call that disrespectful to the public as I was told the same times wwee available thru their site ..
Make a decision which way you want it redcrest!

upon arrival you're immediately greeted your bags are taken care of and placed in a cart if you are riding
we were politely offered an earlier tee time but declined since we did not want to pressure ourselves and cared to chip and putt.
We were a twosome and it was suggested that we play the Southern Uplands followed by the Midlands we have never played the uplands while we have played the Midlands, having said that we found the course stacked with twosomes in front of us and while the uplands are challenging and undulating it can be difficult to play for any golfer nevermind those who are challenged to hit a ball straight we found ourselves waiting often to tee off and while we enjoyed the scenery it somehow seemed to throw our cadence off. then there was the twosome behind us who were racing to every shot and attempting to put pressure on us.
I would recommend the course in general its scenery is outstanding the courses in good to great condition but bring extra balls if you don't hit straight it is very undulating and can be penalizing that way.
All staff was extremely polite friendly and presented well. One thing I was disappointed about was the cart girl had no pre made sandwicheswhat does it take for the facility to have nice fresh pre made sandwiches for us to buy?

we choose this course for its location and value, we found the starter to be both pleasant and helpful although we found the Marshalls to have a lack of the fundamentals of pace of play vs gaps between foursomes. we were asked to politely speed up as the group in front of us was too far ahead. when I suggested to the Marshall that gaps had nothing to do with pace of play and whether we were on pace, he stumbled and suggested we were not. when I pointed out our actual start time and our current time he was wrong we were actually on pace for a four hour 15 minute round. so we sped up the next part 5 anyways and sure enough we were now waiting for the people in front of us, nonsense!
we finished our round 4 hours 10 minutes while waiting to tee off for the group in front of us which apparently was too far ahead!