Prince's Golf Club

first time at Princes, played the Dunes and Himalayas courses both in excellent condition (Nov 2018)Great day and totally enjoyable.

Greens are challenging and fairways narrow, not ideally suited to the wayward golfer.
Some of the bunkers are in the category of: OMG lets hope my ball does not go in there!

Course is exposed to the weather being located near to the coast.

Would I play there again....yes for sure.

A fair but challenging links course. I played the Shire & Links combination of holes; the combination used by most visiting societies and for championship play. We played it as an Open Seniors Competition.

Played in March 2017; in benign windy conditions; the course was in excellent condition; whilst other courses were suffering the ravages of a wet winter the course was dry, fairways were 'lush' and receptive and the greens were dry but a little slow of pace. Difficult to get to grips with.

The course played longer than expected with approaches often coming up short of the greens; reflected by the fact that I failed to hit any GIR.

It is a very level course to walk. The greens and fairways were littered with substantial, but beautiful looking, bunkers. On the day my driving was good to excellent with one exception into the long rough. If you get into the rough get back to fairway asap, take the loss of distance over the hail-Mary recovery attempt.

Despite getting excellent advice from my two playing partners who had played Princes numerous times, indeed one is a member of neighbouring Royal St Georges; my score was 10 shots worse than I had 'budgeted' for, given it was an open seniors competition' played on a course I had not played before. This was disappointing because most of this excess was due to a combination of poor fairway play on the day [normally one of my good points] and failing to find any of the par 3 greens, rather that poor driving.

I hope to get the chance to play here again in the not too distant future; especially to see whether my new local knowledge of the course is of any use.

The competition entry fee was £50 including coffee on arrival; 18 holes and a one course post-match hot meal. However, I wouldn't want to pay more than that to play it again.

Played the shore/dunes combo in a very strong wind. Tough but thoroughly enjoyed it. Course and greens we're is great nick despite the rain

great course but very punishing, played from the white tees in a cross wind so driving the ball well a necessity and even then it was often everything you had to get near the green, great experience but wears you down after a while

I have considerable affection for this course and always look forward to playing there, even though sometimes it gets very much the better of my game. Three loops of 9 holes, by far the most difficult being the Dunes.

Excellent value can be obtained by entering the open competitions run by the club, which take place throughout the spring/summer/autumn. This is a final Open qualifer course and back in the 30's hosted an Open itself. It's not easy to play but there are more difficult links courses close by - Littlestone G.C. for one!

Always in great condition and NEVER gets wet. Fairways are reasonably wide but the rough can get very long. Greens always play well but can get very slick in a dry summer.

I love this course and have good memories of the welcome you always get from the staff and local members when I play there.

Give it a try - you may become like me and need your 6 x a year fix.

Enjoy