Ellesmere Port Golf Club - Hooton Course

This is an Ian Woosnam branded course and I’d hoped for better.

Many years ago, it was a Municipal and although well used, was always in good condition provided it wasn’t too wet.

After a fairly dry period, 3 of us played for the first since it came under the brand name and we were all disappointed with its condition.

Finding the next tee after leaving the previous green was sometimes a challenge even with some laminated temporary signs pinned to trees and there was no course map printed on the score card which had to be picked up in the bar area as there is no longer any golf shop.

Fairways were generally poor with heavily rutted tyre tracks across many and occasionally, small standing pools of stagnant water were apparent. We didn’t see any yardage markers and the greens? Some were ok but many had plenty of bald patches. The bunkers were also very, very firm with little sand; we found it easier to putt out of some of the flatter ones.

Having said that, it’s a nicely laid out course with plenty of variety of hole shapes and distances plus it wasn’t expensive for 18 holes. We were disappointed because with just a little more care and attention, it could be so, so, much better.

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The staff and Green keepers should be ashamed letting people play on water logged course.so in my eyes there only there taking people money and dont care about the course at all.they even let people on with buggies which just made even worse.i feel robbed of £8.99 there was that much water in the course the ducks were paddling down the fairways tee boxes I've never seen tee boxes in such a bad way and played at arrow Park which is just as bad and they were trying charge £13 pound a round today golf now should take thus course of the site because its just day light robbery.i would never play there again and highly recommend people the same abousulte garbage

Management should of closed the course, due to it being water logged on every fairway. I accept that there has been a lot of rain, but letting people play on ground like that is going only further harm the course. Not only that, but they are letting people go out on cart's, that is destroying the ground. Absolutely stupid of them to allow that to happen. Shocking!

Considering the amount of rain our courses in the North West have had , the condition was reasonably good. Greens were not great and there is visible evidence of just how wet the course has been through the winter. Our day was sunny and no pressure behind or in front. At £8.99 for 18 it really was millionaires golf.

I visited on bank holiday Monday and teed off just before 9am. It was pretty quiet and for a high handicap I got round in 3 hours and let one person through.

The course has a few doglegs. I would go on golfpass and check the order of the holes, between a couple of them there is a bit of a trek.

Ideally there would be less cut grass lying about and maybe the rough could be more trim? But for £13, can’t really complain.

I hadn't played here for many years. Still a good course. The day we played it was a little bit boggy, very surprised they still allowed golf buggies to be driven around.

We ended up jumping two holes due to a four ball that was unbelievably slow, and causing a huge backlog behind meaning waiting 5 minutes plus to take each shot, no good for consitent play.

But overall really enjoyed the round. Will be playing there again I'm sure.

Came here with no expectations after reading previous reviews. However I was pleasantly surprised. The course is quite tricky at times narrow fairways and greens mixed in with some forgiving holes. What people need to remember this is a municipal course and only £10 to play, the fairways are a bit long and boggy in some places but what do you expect this time of year! Will play here again in summer 🏌‍♂️⛳️

No criticism of this course is fair at £10 per round. It's fantastic value and I would encourage any golfer to try it. It's great, BUT - we had 3 inexperienced players in front playing from two bags. Driving into trees, lost balls, zero etiquette, literally throwing clubs to each other across the greens. As a result play was unreasonably slow and clearly the normal rules of golf behaviour didn't apply. What made it worse was that there was exactly the same behaviour behind. 3 players, two bags and at one point they were kicking a football back and forth between them.

I'm really in favour of encouraging new players but they MUST learn the rules of golf and appropriate behaviour.

Was a lovely course bit muddy due to the rain the past week. Other than that was brilliant value for money, staff were friendly and helpful.

just needs a little bit of love and tender care and money spent on the greens Mrs Woosnam

A decent course for average golfers. We played for the first time trying to get back in to golf. Greens are one of the worst ive seen, like putting on the moon. Fairways in good condition

I tried the course out for the first time as I had not seen it advertised anywhere, and didn’t know what to expect. I was impressed with the course layout and price, and although the condition of the greens was not perfect there had been some heavy rainfall which might have caused this. I would highly recommend if in the area!

£17 for 18 holes on a course is great value. Slow play due to players looking for balls they had hit in trees etc.

Staff very friendly

cheap round of golf course very dry lots of run on ball making it hard to place ball in correct places to score wellbut overall good

Easy on the legs with some challenging gullies to watch out for.

Signage to each Tee would help, especially the 17th which is unseen from the 16th hole.

It was a pleasure to play there.

Basic course, greens are of poor condition and very bobbly. Needs some investment to bring it upto a decent level.