Kilworth Springs Golf Club

During the winter months, expectations are low re course quality, although Kilworth Springs far exceeded ours!

The course is an old quarry I think and drains brilliantly. In addition, the rough had been thinned out which made play far better in the gale force conditions. Fortunately, the wind was largely in our favour and our scoring was great. All for under £20. We had a blast

A definite course to keep it straight if you want to score well but if you do then lots of birdie chances especially on the Par 5’s. Some really good holes with the Par 3 6th a really fun hole. If the wind blows it’s a brute but course overall in good condition and facilities are very good albeit expensive for range balls on the Toptracer range - £12 for 100 balls if you are a visitor. It covers a lot of area with a few long walks between holes and with fairly high rough for errant shots it’s not a quick whizz round but would recommend you give it a try

Greens very good, fairways very good except a few weeds, rough brutal but fair. Some bunkers full of big stones so should be great to prevent club damage

The bunkers have large stones in them the surrounding rough also has large stones. I have damaged my iron badly after hiring a stone larger than an organelle in the rough just a few inches to on be the right of the bunker.

Be very careful

It’s a shame as it used to be such a lovely course.

Greens had been hollow tined in preparation for winter!! fair enough as has to be done at some point but usually covered with fine sand to make it a bit less of a lottery. The main gripe was the bunkers……full of stones….big stones…..looked more like Bognor beach

My second time playing Kilworth, ten years after the first when I ended up in the lake retrieving an errant 7 iron... really great conditions, excellent set up and facilities and great value for money.

Only issue was the pace of play, which meant the heavy rain we should've missed drenched us at the end, oh, and there was a herd of escaped cattle on the 12th...

We followed a large society and took five and a half hours to get round. Lost five balls in the semi rough a yard in from the fairway.

Have played kilworth dozens of times since I started playing golf 20 years ago but my last 2 visits have been some of the slowest play I have ever witnessed, sunday 21st round really took the biscuit 5hrs 20minutes to complete our 18 is just ridicolous and frankly a lack of marshalling does not help. It was mainly due to a 4 ball in buggies who after not managing to hit a ball over 200 yards proceeded to wait until the group on front were on every par 4 green before teeing off, on 13 we waited for them on the tee I managed to watch the last 10minutes of Man City’s first half and the full half time analysis before we as a group could even get on to the tee box.

Overall course is great, rough very long and narrow fairways make it a real challenge for the mid handicaps that we were but the pace play certainly doesn’t help get a round going. Seems some need to learn etiquette or how to play to their ability to not make it such a drag.

Lovely course

Great variety of holes

Pretty good nick

Good value

Knee length rough ! Bloomin Nora get a flame thrower on it