Donnington Valley Hotel & Golf Club

Only visit this place if you have all the time in the world!!

24 players infront of us playing Ryder Cup, examining every shot, approach or putt for 5 minutes.

Marshals just driving around doing nothing.

When we mentioned something after 9 holes we were told it’s what happens, yet there’s a massive sign saying 4hours pace of play on the first and ninth tee!!

Never again

Excellent, challenging course. Some drivable par 4’s. Well worth a visit

Course was good pace of play was good also. I was a single player so was happy to wait and did not expect to be asked to play through.

However when I got to the 10th hole there were 5 groups of four players waiting. One four ball set off only fir the next four to hit their drives when the group in front were less than 150 yards from the tee.

After about half an hour speed of play picked up

I started at 1-24pm. Finished at 5-50pm just before dusk.

Marshals are needed at this course

For the amount of rain we've had over the past month or so the course was in great condition, have played here in the summer, the greens are tricky !!

After weeks of wet weather, the course was in great condition. The club shop is always welcoming and a nice cuppa half way round, great fun!

The only grumble and it's not with the venue at all: is that I wish more players would repair their pitch marks on the greens!

I’ve played this course several times over the past year and it’s certainly showing signs of suffering from over-play during the winter and the recent hot weather with the fairways being burnt up but also very bare in patches.

Greens and tee boxes pretty good, staff very friendly and layout interesting. Pace of play is always good here (<4 hours for 18 holes). Bunkers also unfortunately full of stones.

The course is great, first 9 holes were a little slow, back 9 a group of 6-8 young lads jumped in front of us in buggies and we were almost every hole 2 groups waiting to tee off while they were messing about, 3 hours on the back 9 😡 this let the course down massively.

Very disappointing

I really enjoyed a tough round, however as a first time visit I found that virtually on all but 2/3 holes, I had a blind shot.

As the course was backed up, not only was it a tough shot (luckily I had a buggy and could whizz up a hill to see what I was aiming at), but it was potentially dangerous as you often didn’t know if the group ahead were clear as most homes didn’t have a bell.

This shouldn’t take away from the lovely course though. If I play again it would be so much easier the next time.

The course was in excellent condition

The staff were brilliant

Really enjoyed our round

Thanks

Some long challenging holes.

Well kept & looked after.

Firstly, Golf Now need to change the postcode for this course as it was incorrect.

Although we were late to tee off, the lady in the pro shop was very friendly and helpful.

We played the front 9 twice as the course was frozen and there was snow. They done an amazing job to get that front nine playable although challenging Golf conditions!

Rupert in the bar again was friendly and helpful.

Will definitely look to book this up again.

Thank you Donnington Valley!

The course was very wet in places and too soft underfoot. Greens were very slow and also soft around fringe areas. A good course but maybe better to visit in spring or summer.

Wicked venue. Great condition. A challenging round, requires some good course management, trees line and creep out on every fairway, find yourself in them though it’s not total doom, balls are easily findable and recoverable… and the greens are like marble - even considering how wet/dewy it had been.

All in all some great scenes, great course, challenging but rewarding.

Course, facilities and people all excellent. Best greens I’ve played this year.

Would highly recommend

Good course with undulating fairways , some challenging tee shots and a really tough stretch of holes towards the end. 16 is a bit of a ridiculous hole but get a par there and you know you’ve earned it! Greens were in amazing condition despite 2 days of rain and fairways were good too. Very friendly pro as well and a good terrace for watching people come up the 9/18th holes