Down Royal Park Golf Course

Brilliant course not many winter mat tees only maybe 6. No winter greens would highly recommend

Can't expect much from a cheap course, but for £25 it wasn't good value. £15 a round would make more sense. Fairways are poorly kept and the greens are crazily slow. Beautiful setting and with better maintenance would be a real gem. We were also stuck behind a competition which is normally fine, but they weren't abiding by their own slow play rules. 7-8 minutes looking for a ball is a bit much.

I have read a lot of negative reviews of this course so felt I would add my own. I have played this course many many times.

The bad reviews are all about the condition of the course. The points mentioned are relevant but a little harsh. You have to remember what you are paying to play. If you double the price then the value is poor, but on average you pay between £10-13 a round. This has to be considered.

The course simply needs cut. The fairways are a little long, but nothing silly. Again, same with the greens. They are slow as a result. Once you accept this then your expectations should get in line with what you pay to play it.

A huge positive of this course is how dry it is when other much more expensive courses are soaked, or even closed. The holes are nice and varied and the it is a fair test of your skills. It's fairly open and the greens do not have a lot of break - so it is a great course to build your confidence for a round or 2. It annoys the heck out of me when people pay a tenner to play and expect the quality of a course 3 times as much.

The course is great apart from the up keep the fairways they are very rough and in bad condition the whole course could need a bit of attention

Booked a tee- time for 4 o’clock but arrived early and the guy in the pro shop let us tee off at 3 o’clock. Mighty decent. Really enjoyed my day at Down Royal. The course was really nice to play but the greens were a bit slow. Over all, not a bad day out.

Played here a few times and always found it to be in decent nick. Never seems to be too waterlogged considering it hasn't stopped raining this summer! Have paid more and had less enjoyable rounds. Quite an open course but fairly long with some challenging holes.

We found the course dry after all the rain,fairways were well defined and the greens lush and true if a little slower then what we were used to .We had a nice meal and a drink on finishing and that concluded a good day out.

it overall is good value for money with nice attentive staff and I could recommend it.

Play this course often and normally good in wet as it drains normally well. Not today, green were in bad state, fairways hadn't been mowed in a while some of tee boxes over grown.

Great course for a bit of practice. Fairways aren't kept the best and greens not the best either, but at £10 for a round cant complain

There's been a lot of heavy rain recently and quite a few local courses are very wet underfoot. Down Royal is usually a good choice when the weather has been bad as it's a heathland type course with good drainage. Not today however, the fairways have obviously not been mowed for a while and were very hairy especially on the front 9. There was absolutely no run on the ball and sometimes the ball was even hard to find despite being right in the middle of the fairway. The 1st cut was easily 4+" long so despite the underlying good drainage the course behaved as it would have if it was very wet.

Overall a bit disappointing.....I expected better.

Its been very wet recently, lots of rain and a lot of local courses are damp underfoot. Down Royal is a heathland course with good drainage so it should have been dry.. There wasnt any flooding or puddles but the fairways havent been cut recently ( perhaps because of all the rain?) and were very hairy, particularly the front 9. Balls were sometimes hard to find even in the middle of the fairways and there certainly wasnt any run once the shot touched down. Disappointingly they have closed the driving range which was a great facility for warming up before playing. Course could have been better....a bit expensive to be in this condition.

Down Royal was a course I played 6-8 times a year but I haven’t been since before Covid and the degradation is crazy. The course is great, but on Sunday the greens were at fairway length and some of the fairways were like roughs. Some of the putts were genuinely unmakable because of the length of the grass. Such a shame.

Good course but given little or no attention. Greens are slower than normal fairways, fairways are like rough, bunkers are like waste areas. Shame - good setting, good layout - sadly neglected.

Lovley staff course is so bad greens the length of the fairways rough the. So long holes not cut right no green keeper to keep maintain of course

Not sure what other reviewers expect for 10 quid.

Definitely a course to play April- September but in good condition ( no issue with the fairways) and some really interesting holes.

Could do with more signage though but will be back