Stockley Park Golf

Go anywhere but here! We played early July, so not peak summer and there has been some decent rain in the past two weeks. Yet the course is more dried out than a grape in a microwave for 15 minutes. The bunkers are utterly sandless, rock solid and you might as well play your wedges straight off the car park, it would certainly be better for them. Massive craters in the tee boxes and greens, probably did the tee boxes a favour to try and flatten them out a bit, but you’d need a JCB to finish the job. For £35 per player for 18 holes we didn’t expect the Belfry, but it might have been nice to have seen at least one blade of green grass. Next time we’ll just play a round on the M4 where there’s undoubtedly more moisture in the ground than there is here. Save your money, stay away. I’ve uploaded pictures as evidence but not sure if they are saving

Had an enjoyable but confusing round. Numbering of holes and layout changed some time ago. However no yardage give on any tees. Signing to next hole is poor. Garmin layout has not been updated.

Greens and most fairways were good.

Rock hard stony 10th tee (previously 1st)

Speed of play good when quiet, poor when busy.

Moderately Hilly course.

Tee boxes in bad condition, gps map didn’t seem to match the course. No information about the holes such as length etc. Fairways and greens okay. But very disappointed for the price. I’d play again if it improves those areas.

Me and my pal from work wanted a round after work.

I don’t understand how the course can say a championship course.

The greens and tee boxes was in awful conditions and on holes 12,13 and 14 the flags had been taken out and chucked at the side of the course.

This is not acceptable.

We will not be playing here again.

Dreadful rundown course that has clearly just been let go. Greens on the front 9 nice were really poor, slight improvement on back 9. Tee boxes were a joke, the 10th tee box was so hard none of us could get a tee into the ground. Layout was all over the place, long walks between holes and randomly over a bridge on a main road. Hard to know where some holes were going. Out of the hundreds of course I’ve played it’s up there with the worst. Best part of the course was the beautiful clubhouse after we finished the round. Would rather never play golf again that return to this course! Mid teen handicapper.

Nice course, great condition. Went on a bank holiday Monday so as you can imagine was very busy, booked a two ball and ended up being paired up, which wasn’t that big of a deal due to how busy the course was due to bank holiday, but would of been nice to be told before hand but not a big deal as the two guy we were paired up with where very nice and we had a good round. Very nice conditions and good lay out, staff polite and helpful. Only suggestion I have is rough slightly long, especially the rough just off the fairway, I understand the rough when your miles offline but the rough just besides the fairway for me was way to long and you get punished for being a yard offline. But generally really nice course and enjoyed my round and 100% will be back and recommend playing here. Thanks

If you like bunkers with no sand or grass & weeds growing in them, the driving range has no rubber tee Pegs & over priced. If you hire a Buggy with GPS built in it follow the old course layout. The New 10th hole is a joke, rock hard with stones everywhere the ball will not stop before the green even if you are 20 yards short.

To much waiting at T-offs and through out course. Because of some walks between holes pedestrians are alot slower than golfers with buggies which creates back up problems. I found it very hard to relax and enjoy my round because of the frustrations of waiting on T-offs. And people on Buggies complaing about having to wait. It was very busy , and I just couldnt relax enough to enjoy my game. It's a big No from me. Golf should be enjoyed not rushed....

Course was in great nick, considering it was a downpour the day before. Fairways were great, and greens were firm.

The course has recently changed the layout, moving holes around, so navigating it isn't easy. Could certainly do with some clear directions and hole numbers. Spent 10 minutes looking to get for the 9th to the 10th hole.

Nowhere near as bad as some of these reviews make it out to be. Yes you start on hole 10 rather than the 1st but doesn't affect your round at all. Fairways in places are marked off for GUR but again, it's all to make the course better in the warmer months. Greens were big and undulating which makes for a very enjoyable round, they were punched when we were playing which bobbled a bit but otherwise can see the good potential! Pace could have been better but as other reviews mention, it's the golfers that play there that won't let you play through. Some challenging holes and course knowledge will help on returning to play in the summer which we will definitely do!

Really nice challenging course which requires plenty of shot shaping left to right and right to left. Certainly a course you need to have played once to score well as some blind shots off the white tees. Course was in great condition for the time of year. The greens were good but had been aerated so putts weren’t running through but it’s winter golf. Really nice facilities with putting green and driving range. The club bar is welcoming and a place you could easily spend a few hours in. Had the Cajun chicken sandwich would recommend.

The disadvantage is the course layout and signage. Speaking with the club starter the course is going through a restructure of the layout. So the first hole is now the tenth. Due to this the club have removed hole signage from a number of holes (but not all) which leads to confusion of the next hole as the course layout is not a flowing layout. Place of play was slow but more the golfers playing than the courses fault.

Overall a great course which I will be playing again and would advise any golfer to try it out.

Stockely Park was very overcrowded on Sunday 23 Jan 22.

After a request to start on the back nine, presumably to relieve congestion. the pace of play was incredibly slow with too many playing groups booked? on the course at one time.

The condition of the course was fair for time of year and weather however a few of the fairway bunkers are very poor and overgrown with weeds.

Overall a very disappointing golf course experience with what seems like cramming in players to make money rather than delivering a great golfing experience.

This is actually a lovely course and I can’t understand the bad reviews! The staff were friendly, people on the course were interacting. Looks better than I expected from all the reviews. Long course would recommend others to play it but if no1 is in front of you you will never know we’re the next tee box is

I have only played this course - several years ago so the 3 of us were essentially going in blind. No tee box had a legible number on - let alone yardage. Many holes had no signage to indicate where the next tee was. We got lost on 3/4 holes and we saw other golfers having the same issue. It was SO SO poor. We won’t return as a result because if a course can’t get the absolute basics like signage sorted it is a real worry.

Upside: lovely Guinness in the 19th

Had to cancel due to fog not clear how to get a refund?

Despite the recent wet weather, Stockley Park were not operating a trolley ban (unlike most other local pay and play courses). What they are doing to mitigate course damage is roping off large areas of fairway and around the greens - that makes total sense.

I was prepared for a slow round - SP notoriously slow plus it was a Bank Holiday - lots of two-balls and the course still needs a marshal to speed things up.

Greens in good nick (as usual) and fairways not too bad considering time of year.

Be careful as my booking from GolfNow was at a different time to what they had told me so I got there 30 mins late for the tee off that they had to what I had booked.

That’s said the golf shop was very accommodating and sorted the issue out.

Very long course but great challenges