Alt Golf Club/Southport Golf Links

Council run and greens and fairways cut but rough gets out of hand quickly. Go offline and you’ll be lucky to find you ball. Hard test in the wind.

All that said I always enjoy playing here and it’s good value.

Most of the courses I play are municipal courses, mainly for cost and being a high handicapper. But I have played much better municipal courses than this around Merseyside.

The greens were like a marsh, you put your foot on it and it sunk with water filling up around your golf shoes. Some greens had clearly not been maintained for some time, as there were patches with no grass whatsoever. One hole, had patches with no grass where the soil had dried up and cracked, which was not a playable condition to be expected on a green.

If you use the slope rating to determine the difficulty of a course, it is certainly significantly more challenging than a 118 slope rating, but for the wrong reasons.

The course routing and layout was confusing, it could have used some more signage, there are some but more could be needed as there were forks in the paths with no indication of which way to go. There was one hole in particular where we were unsure if we were hitting towards the correct flag, the map on the scorecard didn't really help since the flag we were unsure of was virtually on the fairway next to us. Maybe putting golf numbers on the flags might help?

The main positive factor of the course is that the fairway and the rough are clearly defined, which is not something I see often with municipal courses.

It was a real shame because I was really looking forward to playing a municipal links golf course for the first time, it left me bitterly disappointed.

Great course for all levels, friendly staff and great value

Buggy was a bit pricey compared to the round cost

Lovely course set in unique setting of a golf link , very friendly and helpful staff , both in reception and on the course .

Given very dry summer then course in very good condition .

Very good value for money and a very nice day out .

We popped into this course on a whim on the afternoon of our arrival day from the US. The shuttered old clubhouse certainly gives an ominous first impression, but the course itself is decent enough. There are a few too many annoying perpendicular water hazards that run across a lot of fairways, which is never fun on a links (especially a course you don't know very well). Very slow greens but there are a few good holes. Golf tours will want to look elsewhere but for a last-minute walk on arrival day it does the trick.

Course bit soggy in places. Expected at this time of year.

Course ok but nothing special. All the holes seem to be up and down. Can't remember a dogleg at all.

When I played there was no wind so course played easier.

Decent day but wouldn't play again. There are too many courses out there I haven't played yet