Telford Hotel & Golf Resort

Visited for a weekend and 2 rounds. Hotel good, didn’t use the Spa facilities. Course is suffering from current drought conditions which has turned the fairways yellow and made them iron hard, very bare, more like links conditions. This aside there are areas that need addressing. The tee areas are very poorly maintained, the bunkers are awful many have visibly torn liners and roots growing through. On Saturday the half way house was closed by the time we got to it which was just gone 5pm after a long 9 holes. This brings me to the next point, the course was very busy, I pity the poor members having to put up with so many visitors. Greens were ok well watered but very spongy in areas due to ? Underground irrigation system. On Sunday we finished around 5pm the bar on the terrace had closed. Altogether a disappointing experience, on the plus side I hit my longest drive ever!

Really enjoyed this course so many different holes so not just the same shots all the time

Sad to say the greens were in a very poor state - both soft, bobbly areas and bare, sandy patches. Otherwise the rest of the course was in decent condition.

Great course, greens are challenging but great to test your ability.

Definitely play again

Course was good, greens were a bit patchy and looked like they needed watering

Greens are in good condition but Airiation holes very large. Very busy due to the great weather conditions.

This is a nice course with great shape to the greens. Unfortunately it suffers in the winter and spring as it doesn’t seem to drain well so a few fairways are very soft and wet in places. The pace of play was very slow on the day we played.

Woeful condition, fairways boggg and long.. tee boxes and greens nothing short of disgraceful the free price paid.

Worse condition I’ve seen a course at this price point for a long time

Course was really nice. Good layout and challenging enough. Some very nice holes.

Some greens weren’t great. Bare patches, very dry and some looked as though they had disease. Some bunkers were in poor condition also. Seemed like they were maybe short of staff but it’s genuinely worth a visit. Especially if the greens were in good condition.

On the day Sunday afternoon we played (2 ball) the course range was busy with what appeared to be a lesson preventing any warm up and on the course a very slow 3 ball in front took just over 2 hours for the front nine, one obviously not yet a competent golfer. He left after 9 and pace significantly improved. The course very boggy on many fairways no recent evidence of fairways being cut with large areas marked GUR. Very large bunkers on the course mostly shallow and none recently raked with hard sand. The greens large with plenty of slopes were heavily moss laden . The whole course was not looking well maintained BUT with the wet weather over winter and the very soft ground under foot conditions are not conducive for machinery to be used without causing a lot of damage. Evidence of a lot of “hedgehog” wheeled trollies, no sign of buggies. I doubt a return.

First time playing Telford and I will not be rushing back. This is also my first time leaving a review on here after hundreds of rounds of golf over the years; I’m that disappointed!

Grass cuttings all over the fairways, no attempt to collect after cutting. The green keepers are either using equipment that is too heavy for the course this time of year or they do not care, really deep tyre tread marks all over the place and close to the greens.

The drainage is simply not good enough at this place, really boggy in places considering how dry it has been in the last week.

Greens almost unplayable in places. I’ve played at other courses owned by Q Hotels (Hellidon Lakes) and hoped this would be an improvement but they clearly do not care about anything other than getting the footfall on to the course.

It is a shame as the location is great and some of the views and hole layouts are great. I know it is still March but I would not be in a rush to see if it has improved over the summer.

A day before my tee time I tried to call the pro shop. I left a voice message first time around and also tried to call a further 5 times over the space of the day but no one answered.

The welcome at the pro shop was friendly. After purchasing some range balls I headed to the driving range where you could hit off grass, however the quality of turf was non existent as it was overused therefore it was playing off dirt. The practice putting green was ok but this is on a incline that is not reflective of the putting greens out on the course so requires levelling out.

This was the worst conditioned golf course I have ever played. In spite of the heavy rain throughout the winter, it was extremely muddy all over and it is clear that this golf course suffers massively from drainage issues, if there is any drainage at all. Every single ball plugged in the fairway or rough and it was also difficult walking due to the mud and slippery conditions. When i played it was a sunny day and 10 degrees with a light breeze.

The fairways and rough had not been cut in a long time, this is understandable considering the recent rain and waterlogged conditions as machinery would otherwise get stuck. It may be wise for the club to invest in some lightweight robotic mowers that could work and cut despite the ground conditions in order to keep the conditioning to an acceptable level. Putting greens were ok but very soft. It was also noted that there was no ball washers out on the golf course which is vital when conditions were as soft as they were.

I only ended up playing 9 holes due to the condition of the golf course.

I had some food in the clubhouse that was on a par with the golf course in terms of service and quality. I ordered a ciabatta which took 45 minutes to be served, with no staff member coming over to me to apologise or manage my expectations. This was also on a quiet day where there were around 20 people maximum in the bar/lounge. I had to ask after 35 minutes where my food was - the staff member was very polite and checked straight away. He then offered me a free drink to apologise for the wait. The quality of the food was acceptable.

All in all, this was my worst experience of a venue with a very poor quality golf course that suffers in wet conditions due to poor drainage resulting in little maintenance done on the course, with poor service waiting for food. The only positive is that the staff were friendly.

Unfortunately due to the weather conditions and maintenance of the course...this should have been deemed unplayable.

I can imagine in the summer it would be a pleasurable golf course.

I wouldn't recommend at this moment in time but I would definitely go back in the summer season.

Greens were incredibly slow and not cut

Fairways and rough were the same, very boggy with very long grass.

I recommend missing during the winter months.