Sweetwoods Park GC Course Review

Sweetwoods Park GC Course Review

Entering the gates at Sweetwoods Park you wind your way dramatically down towards the clubhouse and gain your first impressions of this contemporary parkland design. What’s immediately clear is that the defining feature of the course, and with it the foremost challenge, are the undulations.  I guess, by its very nature, every course is defined by its topography but at Sweetwoods the gradient changes are the very essence of its character. Sloping greens, contoured fairways, and marked elevation changes are evident throughout the eighteen holes, with the result being a course that’s endlessly…Read more …
West Surrey GC Course Review

West Surrey GC Course Review

It wouldn’t be untrue to say that, in the main, parkland courses don’t tend to fair as well in the esteem of golfers (or at least those responsible for the rankings) as their heathland and linksland brothers. Not untrue, but perhaps unfair, I couldn’t help thinking as I strolled off the eighteenth green at West Surrey. The course may not share the same terrain as its fellow Surrey courses at Walton Heath and The Berkshire, but it does share the same designer in Herbert Fowler – and that instantly tells you much of…Read more …