Halifax Golf Club

Dont know who's complaining about the greens they must be a professional golfer as course immaculate fairways great nick greens spot on and a great lay out always enjoy playing here especially in the sun

This is a great course when it’s in good condition but as of late that’s not very often.the course itself fairways and very good but the major let down is the greens for me they haven’t been in good condition for months now.very untrue running bobbling everywhere and very slow.ruins your round playing on such bad greens.hoping they improve soon

Course in general is nice but the tee boxes could be in better condition.the greens are terrible.probably the worst greens I’ve played on all year.heavy fluffy and not true running very bumpy.

The greens really let the course down

This course is well worth playing

Greens were in excellent condition

Some really nice holes

Enjoy the course 18 different holes with various challenges played off yellows

3 long par 5s

5 par 3s the rest are decent par 4s

Hole 12&17 par 3 (yellows) is famously rewarding if you land on the green from 100ft above with fantastic views down the valley.

All in all a great experience will make you want to go again. Young Bar managers a decent lad with great banter, only down side is after a few pints he likes to tell people he would beat Rory Mcllroy around the course one handed.

The wind did blow but what a fantastic test of golf. Great shots are met with good results, poor shots are findable and have a workable ending and very bad shots get what they deserve.

Honest course with great greens and an abundance of character. Awesome fun.

Good parking, club pro let me go whenever I was ready on a quiet Sunday afternoon playing alone.

The pace of play was great, I think I saw another person on my hole once, at the end of the 500 yard 14th (I think) as I was tee'ing up.

Good:

Lovely variety of holes, particularly given 99% of golf in West Yorkshire is either entirely Moorland or Parkland. Obviously, there is very little parkland to be found at Halifax GC, but a lot of the par 3s and some Par 4s on the front 9 do a really good job of imitation, keeping it from being entirely Moorland golf.

Clubhouse was lovely and the regular who asked me how my round went seemed genuinely interested. Lovely bloke that he was, clearly clocked that I would not be able to tell anyone about my round as I'd played alone. Let me talk about my first ever (very wind assisted) Birdie of a Par 5 than I had any right to

Greens were fast and really well drained, given the weather of late.

Fairways were in very good nick (not that I spent much time on them) as well.

A very challenging round.

Bad:

Not much to complain about, but the course map on the scorecard is essential on the front 9. Many times you are looking up at 3 flags and it isn't immediately blazingly obvious where to go.

Notes:

I didn't ask, but you really should ask/be told outright by the pro for tips before going out, there are 3 holes from memory that are pretty blind and laying up an iron on them is a far better idea than going with your gut (and the course map) and hitting driver.

Wind - Holy god, wind is the biggest obstacle on this course. The back 9 was a brawl with the sky. I hit a par 5 in 4 (on the green in 2, and I am not a good golfer), then hit the par 4 that mirrors in reverse it in 9 because driver/hybrid/hybrid didn't get me to the green. I wouldn't say this is a critique at all, but just take it on the chin that if you're not scratch, that wind can and absolutely obliterate your score.

Fairways are really short, fast and hard as well as being quite undulating. This, with the wind blowing, had many shots that would normally have you giving a little fist pump of joy at hitting the fairway, resulted in balls rolling 25 + yards into the rough, about which...

If you're more long than you are accurate, playing alone and new there, bring extra balls - I played it very close to the line as I had forgotten to move balls from my trolley bag to my carry bag for the round, so set off with only 6 in the bag, which with my handicap and eyesight was very dangerous.

The rough is like a black hole. I added a good 6 shots to my final score due to simply not being able to find balls that I am 99% sure I would have found playing in a group. 2 of these were on blind tees mentioned earlier. So just bring extra balls if you're the kind to lose a few off the tees.

I am a fairly healthy 33 year old, usually carry bag who plays a lot of hills disguised as golf courses in the area, so the walking wasn't a particularly big deal, I have walked much harder courses locally, however if you're not in the best of shape, this course could prove a hard walk and carry.

The 17th is great, I would really, really have liked to have played it with anything approaching accuracy as priority. The wind was directly completely blowing in my direction and so simply landing a ball down there and not in the fearns was the main goal over anything else.

Final point - I really like the ferns in the valley on the walkways. Halifax is a genuinely pretty course to walk.

Really enjoyed it, will be going back.

great course great price could do with better signs to direct golfers LOL

This was my 3rd visit, played this hilly course in 26c with 2 friends, all were suffering on the 18th fairway but once again thoroughly enjoyed this demanding course which as always, was in great condition. One of my favourite places to play, especially on the rare days of beautiful sun high on the moors above halifax

Loved the layout, two particular holes requiring significant attention as had no idea where I was going but we’ll prepared for next visit. Nice test of golf in heat!!

Course is in great shape, very hilly and some shots and holes quite tricky as not obvious where the hole or green is. Enjoyable

The course was in good condition and the weather conditions were quite benign thankfully (wind). Some testing holes on this moorland course but thoroughly enjoyed playing. Staff also friendly.