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This is a lovely course if a little difficult to get to but we’ll worth travelling for with each hole presenting a different challenge and aspect on some gorgeous surroundings.

Staff are friendly, decent beer and food, only downside no range but there are nets, a short practice hole and putting green to make up for this and of course the course!

My tee time was booked for 7.50am but members were lining up in a long queue so eventually after waiting to get on for around 20 minutes I went and played the back 9 and came back to play the front 9. Again held up by a slow 3 ball who didn’t have the courtesy to let me play through. It’s part and parcel of playing golf these days I guess but not encouraging for new players and eventually golf courses will not survive like a few local ones haven’t. On the upside it’s a lovely course, greens were immaculate but again held up on quite a few holes by ground staff raking bunkers and watering greens!

This is probably the most stunningly beautiful course I have played around the Wolverhampton area but each time I have played I have been behind slower players, sometimes several groups of four balls and I've either played as two ball or on my own and no-one let's you play through, very few replace divots or pitch marks so the course is let down by ignorance. May be people haven't been educated to the etiquette of this gentlemanly game but common sense should prevail. Without course marshals I think playing will continue to dwindle as a four hour 18 hole takes over five hours or a 9 hole takes over 3 hours to play.