Aray77

There really isn’t much point in writing this review, given that I didn’t get to play in the end. Arrived, made my way to the first tee: only to find a grass cutter or whatever course maintenance vehicle it was parked on the first tee, staff chatting away and having no urgency to move the vehicle. After waiting for 5 minutes, I ran out of patience and walked back to my car to go home.

It’s not the best of courses anyway, with many issues such as a proper lack of direction to instruct players where holes are, and it being difficult to tell the difference between fairway and light rough, which is why it’s so cheap as more often than not, green fees reflect the quality of the course. I’ll probably go again because it’s so cheap, but it’s certainly not competition standard or one to play with your mates.

On for a potential best ever round up until hole 9, but from there to end my game went dramatically down hill and left enough skid marks to give professional cleaners nightmares. Whilst preparing for shot 3 on 9, my trolley very nearly rolled/ran away from me as a result of me forgetting to apply the breaks, and although I managed to prevent this, I was aware of a bunch of people outside the clubhouse very loudly laughing, which put me off as I was paranoid that they were laughing at me for my trolley error, although I’m sure this wasn’t the case. Back 9 was mixed, but more bad shots than good, and as always so far during my 2 visits to Rufford...Absolute Nighmares on 16 and 17. But despite my frustrating incompetence, overall it’s a very good challenge on a quality course for a reasonable price, and that’s why I will keep coming back for more rounds and challenges.

Quality course that’s reasonably priced. There are worse courses than this that cost £75-£100+ per round.