Belfry Golf Club - The Derby Course

Course plays well despite the recent weather, all maintained very well barring a few of the greens which are slightly patchy in some areas but speed of the greens is unaffected. A lot of maintenance going on which will hopefully make the course better in the new season. All in all, great value for money.

Great day out. Excellent facilities with a nice driving range also. Big distance between the range to warm up and the course though. Staff were excellent and the course itself was beautiful, if not a little easy with large fairways and forgivable rough. The cost of the beer afterwards was a little steep!

What I expected as I have played here before.

Considering it is £28, and the PGA is £80 and Brabazon £180, it is to be expected it will only be on a par with other clubs that charge £28 green fee. Greens good conditions and fairways ok.

Lots of bunkers neglected and GUR.

course in a really neglected condition. we expscted the course to be parched due to recent weather, but not in the unmaintained condition we found it. other that the greens which were good. the bunkers especialy some on the front nine were overgrown, and in need of serious attention. but it was just in the general poor state of the course we were disapointed with. there were preparations taking place for a major competition, maybe resourses were used elsewhere. all in all deciding to play the derby course on that day was an expensive (£45 for the round each) mistake.

I have played the Derby course a number of times over the last 3 years and have often commented this is one of the best value courses in the Midlands. However, we played on Tuesday 19 August and were really disappointed to find the majority of bunkers unplayable given they had lack of maintenance undertaken on the bunkers for some time. Most were heavily weeded and had hardly any sand.

What was really disappointing was we were not made aware through the booking arrangements or at the check in at the club house. If we had known we would have played other courses in the area.

On the Derby Course the greens were in fairly good condition however, the rest of the course was fairly brown and dry in several places you can see the other courses PGA national and Brabazon were well watered and maintained especially Brabazon due to British Masters being played later in the week. It would have been nice to see the maintenance being applied to the Derby course as well.

Overall it was a nice course and not particularly difficult as most holes were reachable par 4's and 5's I felt some of the Greens can be bit challenging re putting due to pin placements for the price paid its good value. the only criticism I felt that the buggy hire is overpriced being £50 per buggy as most courses do it at £25/30 due to premium location I would think £40 would be the right price point. to feel really good value.

Not great. Fairways are terrible but to be expected due to lack of rain, bunkers are a joke. Pace of play was very slow, waiting ages on most tees. Disappointing

I have played the Derby many times and found it really enjoyable. Fairways great. Greens really good and testing.

50% of bunkers poor

However this time the waiting to tee off was ridiculous for the back nine . We were in a three ball with two groups of four balls in front of us all waiting at hole 11 and the rest of the round was that slow. It looked like there were just too many playing rather than slow play.

Im sure it was a one off

Sort out the bunkers please

This has to be the worst condition course I have ever played on it’s so over used the bunkers have no sand in them they look like a job has just dug a hole extremely poor condition course

Played a four ball, easy enough course, quite wide, some tricky bunkers but perfect for our level.

Had a great round with my friends on Saturday, ridiculously hot, though the course was still immaculate after days of scorching heat. Everything you’d expect from “The Belfrey”.

However, we were early for our tee time and asked to wait for our starter to arrive, who arrived 10 minutes after our tee time (not a problem we were told).. By the 9th, we were told we were holding up play because “we” were late, even though we were 20 minutes early to the 9th based on actual start time. We did explain why we started late, though this wasn’t accepted and we were told to hurry up… would still play here again, though think staff need to communicate a little better and not blame customers.

Great course differently going to play it again, or maybe one of the other two

Picked the prefect time to play the course, was a little dry but the greens where really sadly let down by I repaired pitch marks, staff the course are second to none, extremely helpful and friendly, I’ve played all the courses here and the derby for me offers the by far the best valve for money, if you can play it you won’t be disappointed

Not many on the course so played at my own pace greens really quick and challenging . Really enjoyed it would highly recommend

As expected. Excellent pace of play, got round in four ball in under four hours. Only slight quibble is that some of the greens needed a sweep of leaves, etc but otherwise great value for money.