Manor of Groves Golf Hotel & Country Club

The course plays ok and has some interesting and challenging holes, particularly close to the Manor house but the standout memory was the copious amount of mud and the poor greens. OK I'm playing in winter conditions and should expect these things but the greens were so badly hollowtined/sanded that the were just unputtable. Watching your ball jump around on its way to the hole is not fun. The muddy paths and bare tracks between holes also means your spikes get clogged guaranteeing a slip while swinging on the winter tee mats. Also, several bunkers had no rakes. Fairways are light rough at best and ridged from blunt mower blades.

The course has a feel of heavy wear/tear or poor maintenance.

Having said that, play it once, judge for yourself but I would avoid paying the full round price as it's not good value for what you get.

On the positive side, the clubhouse is nice, has an informal feel, friendly staff, sports telly, good and very well priced food/drink plus a half decent shop.

Turned out to be a nice change from my club course which is partially shut due to the weather.

The course is very playable and a nice mix of the tight strategic golf around the hotel grounds and the expansive open areas of the newer 9 holes.

Really enjoyed it.

The staff in the club shop and bar were friendly and there was a good selection of beers. The burger was excellent.

First time playing at the course. The golf course was semi long fairways and course not in a good state what so ever. Temporary tees and greens on most of the holes. There was one hole was so bad you couldn't even putt you as the temporary greens was so long same size grass as the fairways ! I don't think you can ask people to pay £27 a ball . If they can't play a decent round of golf, if you don't want to look after your golf course properly. Very disappointed won't be going back that's for sure

Wanted to play the course for the first time as playing with a society soon .Conditions were very muddy but to be expected this time of year, Greens we’re good and would like to play in the summer.

Should not have allowed trolleys on the course as it was too muddy and progress was hampered by having to clean the wheels after every other hole. Should have been advised of this beforehand so golfers could bring stand bags in wet months in the winter.

Very warm welcome in pro shop and Clubhouse , no cooked breakfast available , only sausage or bacon rolls , as we went round the mud built up on my trolley and my shoes making it increasingly more difficult to get round , the fairways are like semi rough , temporary tees and Greens , all in all not a course I will come back to

Course was not fully open and only 9 holes were playable and the conditions were pretty bad with mud everywhere. Probably not worth playing in these conditions.

Unfortunately not a good course to play in the winter.

Have played the course before about 5 years ago but it was earlier in the year.

Every hole was off a temporary tee and there were too many temporary greens, and the course was very wet and slippery in places.

Some of the direction signage needs to be improved between holes.

We are due to play this course next summer with our golf society so I hope we will see an improvement then.

The course was very quiet on the day we played, and we had one other player behind us who finished as we were air hosing our trolleys down.

He thought the course was unplayable in certain areas.

It was very busy, so the pace of play was a little slow at times, the course was in great condition but the greens had been treated so we’re a little slow.

I shot my best score ever so I’m happy

The course is in great shape and has challenging holes that warrant me replacement some lost balls.

We enjoyed the day having travelled and will again travel to try other courses with challenges.

We chose the course as a stop off from Swindon to Cambridge as STFC away there that evening.

The fairways hadn’t been cut !!!!

This meant every approach was from the first-cut tough. Not the best because of this.

Staff all friendly; no food after golf (6pm) in golf clubhouse to had to move to a pub or eat in hotel - chose a pub near Cambridge.

Good course, nice parkland setting and some monster par 5 holes. Quick greens but some of the tee boxes being refurbished and not in great shape.

Love this track, superb condition, very playable and we just had a magic afternoon

Nice course & great value for the money, spoilt a bit has we had a 2 ball appear from no where, who just shot past us while we were finishing on the green ! That was followed by a 1 ball not sure what was going on ! Course was in great condition, only gripe was 2 teeboxes were astroturf& a few were very un even - shame as I would have give it 4 stars, as it only cost us £20 each, great value.