The Celtic Manor Resort - The Montgomerie Course

Fairways looked like they haven't been cut in months and mostly like a swap where your foot disappears.

Lucky the greens were great cause the rest was very bad.

We Tee’d of at 10:10am and the greens were covered in thick white ice, very disappointing, this wasn’t golf with the fairways around 4inches thick. It was like hitting the ball out of the rough every shot.

Very disappointed.

Even though it was a bit soft the coarse playes very well. Tees and greens were very good and would love to play again

Pace of play was terrible, 2 of us in buggy took an hour before we could tee off on 3rd hole.... and was like this all the way round.

Greens were in good condition, but the fairway had been let grown so it wasnt actually a fairway, the ground was way to soft so the ball was coming down and plugging. On a number of occasions we'd tee off hit the centre of the 'fairway' and lose the ball.

The course itself was in extremely good condition and greens are superb but for an intermediate golfer like myself I found this called very challenging quite hilly course, good value for money to play the course but I found a buggy hire was extremely expensive. Can’t see me going back here in a hurry.

3rd or 4th time playing The Montgomery. Pace of play was good. The course is very undulating. Despite good tee shots, I was rarely hitting from an even lie. The greens were punched however still were quick. Only disappointment was seeing so many unrepaired pitch marks & no attempts made to fill divots by players. Overall experience was very good.

The golf was fantastic. The course was in excellent condition. The fairways were very hard due to lack of rain. The greens were superb!! A very challenging course which kept our interest. Very hilly and long walks to some tee boxes a negative. Variety of holes outstanding!

Firstly the good - the greens were well kept and relatively quick, the tees a delight.

The course had clearly suffered from a lack of rain and no fairway irrigation, along with some extreme slopes means with concrete hard fairways good shots can end up on opposite sides of the fairway, or beyond (as the 1st cut is very light! The bunkers were disappointing and in cases unnecessarily so - with lots of and at the back and none at the front and in places different types of sand used in different bunkers around the same green.

The course layout is extremely poor for anyone walking - even with an electric trolley and being fit, the combination of walks along extreme slopes and having most players use buggies does not make for an enjoyable relaxed round (4 hours in our case) It should consider being buggy only course or recommending buggys.

I would not ply the course again this summer, but it could be a real delight in the Autumn or spring once the fairways have some living grass once more.

A brilliant golf resort, with quality facilities. The Montgomery was in brilliant condition and the greens were top class. The back 9 is a real treat, the 12th is a brilliant par 5 and one of the best holes I have played.

Halfway house wasn’t open at the turn and pace of play was slow but nice course overall.

Pretty wet in many places even though it's been dry for quite a while (mid March 2025). It's a long and hilly walk around, about 23 km clocked on my watch. We had to wait for for a group ahead until eventually let play through, but no issues with those behind as we were last booked. Facilities are good obviously, but this course a bit tired maybe.

If a health and safety officer attended the course it wouldn't been open. The week leading up to round the weather had been relevantly dry, so assumed course would be fine. There was nowhere to drop ball it was totally water logged. I feel sorry for green staff having to at some time repair all the damage. The greens had been popped which is totally acceptable. I have been playing golf for 52 years and never played a course as wet. Constantly slipping, balls plugging on fairway sometimes unable to find, eventually ended up using tees on fairways nowhere to drop. The celtic manor is a wonderful experience and been fortunate to play all the courses and would recommend it to everyone, but at the moment stay clear. Cost £35 per person which seemed a great deal, honestly the fairways reminded me of those pictures you see during a wet Glastonbury festival.