David Roth

Drove up the day b4. took 5 and a half hours with one stop for aprx 20 mins.Hotel and course were simply excellent. greens were fast and bunkers well placed. should have scored better but putting cost me big time. would strongly recommend playing if you have the opportunity. staying at slaley hall expensive. food was excellent.

Played a competition at Belton woods 20/02/10. stayed at the hotel the night before.a de vere hotel. excellent hotel good facilites great food.the course was long but open no out of bound markers but plenty of well placed ponds mainly around the greens.lots of bunkers (only shame was that all bunkers were gur due to weather) i personally think they were ok and i'm sure it would have made a difference to some peoples scores. i went in one in my round. i took the advice of the yardage book and played every hole tactically. i never took on long shots over the ponds and relyied on my pitching. the greens were frozen in morning thawing out as we went round. they were very fast and quite difficult to read. i 3 putted 3 times.it was the first time i had played it. i played off 12 shot an 87 coming third out of 43 and also winning nearest the pin. all in all a good day. i would recommend the course and hotel to anyone who is in the area to play it.excuse my spelling if there are any mistakes.

an enjoyable course with lots of room if you don't always hit straight. some long holes which can be rewarding if playing well. enough hazards to ruin your card which should make you think before playing your shots. the weather was awful from start to finish i would have walked off after nine holes but my playing partner wanted to carry on. the course was waterlogged due to the conditions but we managed to finish hence the bad scores. worth a visit there are three nine hole courses to play.