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We only played the course as a practice round for a forthcoming event. Seeing the pictures & online reviews on their website, as well as the £35 per person per round, we thought the course would be of a decent pay & play quality; unfortunately however while this is not the worst course I've ever played it is certainly in the top 10!

The only half decent thing about the course was that the greens were in good condition, running true & a reasonable speed, if it wasn't for that it would have been top 5 as the tees & fairways were awful.

Many of the tees were so uneven that invariably you were teeing the ball up either above or below your feet, then you had the fairways which were almost as long as the first cut!

If it wasn't for the fact that I have already paid to play in cahrity event at this course, I would never play this course again & certainly not for £35. In my opinion it's not even worth £18!!

Having played both courses at Sherfield Oak over the past 10yrs, but not since 2019, my business partner & I decided to play the longer of the 2 courses as we could not get on our preferred Basingstoke course (Weybrook Park)

On arrival the staff were friendly as I checked us in, but things went downhill very quickly from there.

The state of the tee box on the first was unfortunately a sign of what lay ahead on the course; it was like taking a tee shot from the first cut of rough but with large divots where the grass had not been cut.

Onto the fairways; to be honest we were actually hoping on most occasions that our balls found the first cut of rough as at least there would hopefully be some grass under our ball!.

The fairways were like a patchy cow field with more bare patches of dirt/mud covered with a sprinkling of grass seed than any golf course I have played, we even agreed on preferred lies, but due to the sparseness of grass even that didn't really help.

The greens were in much better condition (although not difficult) & at least had a healthy covering of grass, but these were very slow as they had not been cut & were more like some course fairways than greens. However the fringe of the greens were in a similar state to the fairways, making it impossible to putt from off the green (even 6" off) yet equally difficult to chip on due to the lack of grass & overall poor condition.

We could also see parts of the Waterloo Course from some of the holes & it seemed to be in equally poor overall condition.

While £25 per person (+booking fee) is not a huge amount of money for a round of golf, it would be difficult to justify even £10 per person due to the state of the course.

Needless to say we will not be rushing back to Sherfield Oak anytime soon!