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This used to be an excellent busy well looked after courrse with superb fast greens not very long ago. Upon arriving I immediatly sensed something was wrong in the car park due to the lack of cars in what used to be a busy course. By the time we reached the first green I was starting to understand. The length of grass on the greens was very long and it became clear that they simply were no longer looking after the course and people were staying away. Little things like the signs on the tee boxes were mainly missing and the general course condition and greenkeeping has been let go. I can only surmise that the course may have been bought out by an asset stripping company who are deliberatly running the club into the ground and bankrupcy in order to sell off the land to property developers. I have noticed a very worrying trend of this in recent times in both council and private clubs. With the Governments policy of mass housebuilding for high immigration, building land has become sought after and with Govt. imposed local council housebuilding targets councils are granting planning permision and change of useage of land at the drop odf a hat. More and more courses are being run into the ground and closing and I fear golf will revert to be being an expensive and exclusive activity for the well to do.

Course is in good condition, a fair challenge for all with wideish fairways and reachable par 5's. Usually a bit windy being up on the Downs but thats good when its behind you on the par 5's. Reached one of them with a 7 iron 2nd shot. Played 3 times, would play more often if I lived nearer.