Widnes Golf Club

From the Tee boxes to the fairway the grass was like playing out the rough. I understand weve had a bad winter but i play every week and this is the worse course i have ever played. Still charging £20 a round and it was full i suggest they spend it on upgrading drainage.

To begin with when I got to the pro shop, I was told that the 11th was out, two holes were on temporary tees and two holes on temporary greens. All the tees are like rough, so much that your club slows down on the follow through, all the fairways are like rough, with grass cuttings all over the place and all the greens are like fairways and the rough forget it. This game at this course should be” let’s go find my ball on the fairway” because every time I hit the fairway and my phone says 100% I lost 6 balls on the fairway. There was tractor tyres 7inches deep across the fairways. The temp greens were just holes on the on the uncut fairway. There were grass cuttings all over the fairway. Personally, you’d be better going down to the local park and dodge the dog mess. Don’t bother

The greens here are so good, nice and firm and get decent break on them.. especially for this time of the year. Fairways and rough need a bit of attention as some are way to long but the course layout is a good challenge and lots of opportunities for birdie. Will be returning here again

First I didn’t see that the course had one hole out and unplayable, nor did I know that 2 of the holes had temporary greens and more than one hole had temporary tees. Other than than the greens are as long as a fairway the fairways are as long as the rough and the rough just forget it. On this course you could rename the game “let’s go look for the ball on the fairway”. The fairways were too long it was like playing out of the rough. There is grass cuttings all over the fairway and big tractors tyre marks as deep as 7 inches. This is the third time I’ve played here and there’s something wrong with the course. I won’t play here again.

I’ve been playing this course for over 10 years. It used to be a cracking little course with excellent greens and fairways but now it seems that the fairways are no longer cut, bunkers no longer raked, greens left to rack and ruin. It’s a disgrace to even charge customers a fee to play this course, it’s nothing more than a large field with flags intermittently places in the ground.

2 holes shut

All temporary Tees

4 temp greens

No trolleys unless you have hedgehog wheels

Grass not getting cut on the fairways

None of which is stated on golf now which is disappointing. Especially after driving to the course.

Played the course today , it should of been closed. We have had a lot of bad weather over the last few weeks an months.

This is great course and great layout. First week in January anywhere would of been difficult to get a decent game of golf.

All per 3's closed

Winter tees, preferred lies on fairway, use mats.

Many temporary greens in play.

I expected and accepted the above at the beginning of play. But the 4 holes I played were waterlogged to the point that my socks were covered in mud and my feet soaking wet. Every ball plugged regardless of where it landed, temporary greens included. Spent more time looking for my ball than playing. In my opinion the course should be closed, a few of the members agreed.

Despite numerous days of rain probably the only course in the North west open

Obviously very wet in patches and the greens where brilliant

Staff brilliant 👏

Arrived at course to be told that due to ground conditions, no trolleys allowed. Did attempt to contact us but already on way. Ground conditions were awful. Very wet plugged balls even on fairway. Took 45 minutes to play first two holes due to slow play ahead ! Cut across to play some of back nine. Played only 9 holes. Lot of standing water in places and we were of the view that course should have been closed. On discussing with staff after, apparently the course has a no closure policy due to members. Seemed nice enough course but overall was poor on the day.

If the play is usually that slow would be 5+ hours to play which is unacceptable.

The round was somewhat ruined by the abundance of leaves on the course meaning a lot of lost balls that in other circumstances wouldn’t have been lost.

Booked this at the last minute due to a mix up at the course we had initially booked. I’ve never been here before but was pleasantly surprised at how good it was.

The tees, fairways & greens were in decent order, despite the rain that we’d had leading up to our round here. We found the greens to be true & consistent, sadly our putting wasn’t!!

On the whole I did enjoy the round & I will definitely return. The only slight negative for me was due to this being a leafy course the leaves had been blown into piles in the rough & we both became victims of this with errant tee shots & then lost balls. If we could hit it straight then there’d be no negative points!

A great day & as I’ve said, it will be a course that we will return to.

Brilliant course, played when it was really wet and the course held up brilliant. Played the next week when dry and was even better. Lovely course. Great staff. Definitely make it a regular

Staff, greens staff & Pro really polite, and more than helpful.

Well maintained course and green’s in very good condition for the amount of rain we’ve had, but not too keen on the layout and got to be honest, a bit boring.

It’s an easy walk, so if it’s a nice stroll with a set of clubs you like, this could be for you, but not very well marked out from green’s to the next tee’s.

I’m from Edinburgh and every time I’m in Liverpool I play here. The layout of the course is superb, fantastic par 3’s so well protected with bunkers and small greens. The greens are the best surface I’ve played this season to date. The fairways and fringes cut so well. Putting is pure rolls and great speed on perfect surfaces. This is a fantastic course. Club house excellent service and the green keepers should be so proud of the work they are doing. Thanks stuart

A nice enough course but no drainage and the whole course was saturated, it felt like playing on a sponge. I can expect that during the summer months this will be a nice course, 2 of the holes were closed which was not informed when I picked up my card. Just a little TLC and drainage and this would be a very nice course.