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Can’t help but think this course throws £500 a day away on a warm weekend by not having a drinks / snack cart.
Greens were in best condition I’ve seen here in 18 months which was great, but pace of play was slow because the course can be penal off line. It’s a catch 22, make a course relatively cheap, get higher handicappers playing, you have to make the course slightly easier offline for those guys and girls that spray the ball a bit.

Little Channels has become my course of choice for 9 holes around Herts and Essex. Good Tee Boxes, Weed Free fairways, favourably cut rough as we enter Autumn / Winter and the best Greens around in this price bracket. Far better than competitors at Rivenhall, Notleys and other more established 18 holes courses.

The course starts with an easy Par 3, but be careful, the down hill 100 yard shot catches many out and can destroy a round before it’s begun. Beyond that the course rewards risk takers but doesn’t overly penalise the beginners that find fairways.

Course layout is good, mixes some risk in with reward and played a little longer than its 5900 yards with the wind. Greens were in ok condition but the fairways were very poor, cut short but sparse of grass, patchy and hard. for £20 in an autumn with afternoon tee off you could play better.

A good challenge for all handicaps. A nice mixture of risk reward on some shorter par 4s with some longer, tighter challenging holes, rapid greens!!

I've played little channels a few times the past few months and I am always impressed by the quality of the greens, which although can be fast or slow tend to be blemish free. The course can be challenging, particularity because the 4 par 3s make or break your round, but 2 of the par 4s are gettable for most mid to high handicappers. Would like to see the 18 hole layout available at some point but will be back for 9 soon.

Good course and good value ; greens could be a lot better.