Roberta Upton

Castle Hawk Golf Club is a mess ! A 9 hole full size course built on a hillside behind Rochdale Junction. Course poorly maintained and the greens are small. Cap park is a mud patch with no tarmac or chippings etc ? Clubhouse is a collection of sheds and a caravan and looks like a dockside cafe inside although it is friendly. The driving range divides the course and on the 3 holes next to it it is VERY difficult to find your ball as these holes are strewn with range balls hit over or through the fencing ! The par 3 course in particular is littered with discarded cans and beer/cider bottles and other litter. Driving range is OK but not much in the way of tees to use ? Even for beginners its a bit of a let down ? We won't be going back.

Regent Park Golf Club was a very pretty parkland course with tight fairways and deep bunkers, once apparently ? Course is currently a morass of mud and standing water with lakes where the bunkers used to be ! Looks badly maintained just now except for the greens which were surprisingly good considering the rainfall albeit with pitch marks and scuff damage on most ? Also 4 holes in the lowest and wettest part are closed and have been excavated in some sort of up-grade? This leaves a revised layour with at least 3 instances of "Where on earth is the next tee ?" especially the 5th with an unsignposted 60 yard walk across a practice area to find the tee ? Clubhouse was close on the Sunday we visited too! We only paid £7 each but we will NOT be coming back any time soon ! AVOID ! ?