Cannock Park Golf Course

Great layout for such a small course but the condition of parts of the course is very bad. Greens and tee boxes missing grass are a regular unwelcome sight.

There is signs of investment, some new sponsored signs and an irrigation are in the works but it will take a while before the £23 weekend green fee is justified when compared to the value you get at the Derby at The Belfry or Wergs.

We played Cannock Park Golf Club on 9 August, and unfortunately the course conditions were in really poor shape. The greens were patchy and bumpy and cracking all over, and the tee boxes looked severely neglected and mostly just sand. For the price charged, it was pretty disappointing value. I really felt that a refund or at least a reduced rate would have been more appropriate given the poor conditions.”

The weather has affected most golf course but this place has been killed and is by far the worse course I have played in 30 years. The greens are like Sunday league football pitches, bone dry full of holes and cracks they clearly have no water to maintain them and the tee boxes are just barren sand traps.

The course itself has an interesting layout with some distinctive holes but is so short you never need a driver. The course may be totally different with a few weeks of rain but the greens are months away from being half decent and playable.

Played earlier today considering the weather conditions overall the course is not too bad. Yes the greens could do some tlc, but for £14.20 cannot complain.

Good course, fast greens, some challenging holes. First time playing here for 5yrs, but enjoyable. Only £20 as well so good value.

I’ve played the course as a visitor for the last few years, it certainly has potential, great layout, mixture of par 3 and 4 holes, tees in good condition, fairways are average, bunkers and greens are unfortunately sadly lacking in all departments. To be fair I understand some new company has bought it/are running it and there is evidence of people working on it, but at the moment it can only be described as an average municipal type course which is a real shame.

We ended up booking this course as it’s our most local course and it was a last minute choice to play so all of the other locals within 10miles were booked. I called for almost 2hours straight prior to the booking to see if we could get a buggy as the person I was playing with had a bad foot. After roughly 40 calls, they answered, to tell me all the buggies were out (yet when we got to the course I didn’t see a single buggy and most the people playing were 1 ball or 2 ball groups max. Reception were quite rude and seemed annoyed to even have to take the question.

Now, the course itself. We paid £19.95 on a Wednesday at 11am.

I have played this course before and I actually like the layout and think it’s a great layout and yardage for higher handicappers (even though it’s quite a tight course)

First thing to bare in mind, which is no fault of the course, there are plenty of dog walkers, many with dogs off lead, one dog stole one of our balls off the green and you need to bare this in mind when teeing off, on pretty much every hole, unless you’re a very low handicap anyway.

The biggest disappointment with this course however, is the “greens”. It’s early May, weather has been fairly good, the greens are honestly appalling. We stopped scoring pretty much towards the end because the amount of bobbles, lack of grass, made them completely unreadable and it was more luck than judgement.

Fairways, for a course of this standard were “ok”, but if you aren’t on the fairway on this course you are in huge trouble, it goes from fairway to absolutely unplayable rough/trees/bushes. If you are above a 14/15 handicap you are going to lose balls. Bunkers were all out of action.

A real shame as it’s my local course and I hope from what I’ve heard that someone has/is taking over to make improvements.

Very basic course but it should be expected. It’s great for a social and just to play a round but nothing much more than that. Really not a bad course in any respect, just as basic but maintained as it gets.

Not a bad course some greens are in need of repaire but you can see money is being spent on the course due to new saplings being planted. It will be a good course when it has matured.

The course was in dry condition considering g all the raid, winter tees, fairways cut but a lot of grass left on the course, greens not in great condition several bunkers had no sand in, course well laid out.

Practice facilities give you a real flavour of what’s to come, the practice green is truly representative of how the greens play. If you can’t get on the practice green as other players are warming up, I’d suggest hitting some putts in the car park, this will also give you a flavour of what’s to expect

Unpredictable, undulating greens, coupled with bald patches to the putting surface and speed bump like marks left by the lawnmower make this a challenging test of golf for the most experienced of players.

Dog walkers down the middle of the fairway make it particularly difficult for the more accomplished players knowing a good shop could injure a person or their pet.

Playing off Matts when not needed isn’t great , course is ok , greens , well they are green in colour ……… for me , attitude of other players , single golfers trying to bully past , driving balls to within feet of us on more than one occasion, it’s a free for all out on that course , probably won’t visit again

Decent course overall. Gotta allow for the ground conditions in the winter but it’s a good crack with your pals. Would recommend for beginners.

Good course just need to improve the greens as there not in great condition.

Not a long course but does have some challenging holes.

Wow! They've really spent some money in the past 12 months. The grass has been cut and it looks like they've re-laid some of the greens. Parts of the course still needs some work - the bunkers do not contain much sand - but, overall, this is a vast improvement. I would certainly now recommend this course to beginners and anybody who just fancies a quick practice at a reasonable price.