Bowring Park Golf Course

The was ok nice an open but i think the bunkers could do with abit of looking at they where in a bad way .

This is an excellent municipal course, perfect for the beginner or intermediate golfer, very casual. Facilities aside from the course are limited so come ready to play. The fairways are almost as wide as they are long and the greens, for a municipal course, are extremely good. The yellow tee boxes are the most well-used and could maybe do with a bit more TLC, but aside from that, one can have few complaints for the price. The dog walkers are generally considerate, but like all municipal courses, there is the issue of the occasional group of cheeky reprobates hopping on, although staff do a great job of chasing them off in carts. You can usually tell who they are so I would just encourage everyone to hit balls at them; they’ll soon learn.

Great challenge and excellent value for money. Greens where In great condition.

This course is as always a wonderful place to play

Absolutely the worst course I’ve ever played and probably ever will.

So bad that the locals said they don’t even pay to play l, they just jump on and go around for free.

The length of the grass was completely ridiculous, not playable at all, this includes fairways and tee boxes. Clearly not seen a mower in weeks or months. I’m not even convinced that the grass is golf course grass. Felt more akin to a generic field.

The greens could have been okay if you’d have bothered to repair the months worth of divots, and keep the holes sharp.

Overall this course is completely neglected and I had to apologise endlessly to our 3 ball for choosing this course to spend their money on.

Given that the course signs said it was national lottery funded, I suspect some big time corruption going on, someone must be pocketing the money that it costs to actually maintain a course!

I’m a new golfer probs about 5 months, I’m enjoying the golf at Bowring park but when I pay on line it’s £22 but I’m over 60 and should be £16. Also I pay for for my golf and tee time but when I get to tee off is about 15 mins after my time and I find a lot of people don’t pay they just walk through the double gates to the tee, so I then have 3 groups in front of me 3 ball 4 ball and a 2 ball but if I’m paying why are they not paying I pick my tee time to coincide with picking grandkids up from school etc so think this should be looked into it’s frustrating. On a few occasions no one in front of me but then you end up with someone in front of you who has obviously just bunked onto the course hope this helps.

the course is in poor condition tees are hacked and haven't had the grass cut its like teeing off from the rough . the greens are awful . patches of bare soil with not gur notices . fairways poor long grass and many duvet marks. pace of play awfully slow people riding bikes across the couse and dog walkers walking randomly across fairways during play . used to be an ok cause but its a mess now

Really nice course, wide fairways can be forgiven if you slice or hook the ball, then other where you ha e to think about it. Love bowring and always will

The only down side to this course in my opinion I book on line for the tee time which I have done o about 6 occasions, I try and book a time that is not busy as only learning the game, but on all 6 occasions I get to my tee time and there are 3 or 4 ball groups on the tee also, so must be double booked but then when I wait 10 15mins after my tee time I then have a 3 or 4 ball behind me so pressured all the time

as I’m not a good player at the moment plus then you get golfers who jump in front or behind by bunking onto the course so I feel why should I pay for this when the course is double booked or people just walk on whenever they want very frustrating

This would be a lovely little course if it wasn't for the ignorant dog walkers that stand in the middle of fairways throwing balls for their dogs while you're waiting to hit your ball. Add that to some the players that refuse to abide by the slow play rule and it actually ends up being an incredibly frustrating day out. Such a shame as the course is decent, well looked after and coach house is lovely!

Great layout nice course some of the greens slight damage but overall would be happy to play again

The course is not well kept. The greens were bumpy with divots and lots of sand thrown across them.

The fairways were indistinguishable to the rough as were the greens.

It’s ok to practice on for brand new golfers, however I wouldn’t recommend for anyone who plays even fairly regularly.

The Greens were awful, needs a bit of work

Usually good but a bit danaged

Come here on a gorgeous day, i know its gonna be busy but there’s definitely people who jump on and play, people who just play one side of the course and dont wanna go over the bridge. Rate of play was slow with the amount of people. We finished quite late and the gates where locked. Saving graces that it was a decent day, the course is well looked after and with good mates.

I tee’d off at shortly after 8:30. There were a couple of groups behind me as i did tee off. Fortunately nobody ahead of me, so was able to get ahead and finish my round in 3 hours.

Course is well laid out. One green was waterlogged. The course could do with more maintenance but its not bad.

Others complained about the issue with queue management where you can book a tee time but it doesn’t really matter as you can pay and play anyway. One guy spoke to me about this issue too. Maybe it might be an idea to having to book during peak times?

I was a single player, booked 11:40 but arrived early. Course check in where happy for me to go on and try and play through. On course was met with poor etiquette where groups In front where not allowing me to play through and groups behind taking shots landing within my vicinity. I am a 14 handicap and don't play slow. I was very dissapointed with my round and walked off after 9 holes taking 3 hours. Sad because I like this course.

Course was ok. Fairways didn't feel like they've been cut in a while and seemed quite long. Some of the greens were in poor condition also. Thought it was a little pricy at £25 just due to the condition of the course. Holes 5 to 11 have improved a lot though and isn't as boggy even with all the rain we've had so definitely improvements over there.

Greens are desperate for some maintenance and watering. Everything else was good and the facilities were spot on. Will try again in a month or so as it’s good and local.