Concrawood

BigChap1759 · 11-06-2012 10:44am #1

Played up there last week and what a stunning golf course - apparently there is a Euro Pro Tour event this week so it was in fantastic nick. Anyone else played it?

Myksyk · 11-06-2012 11:16am

BigChap1759 wrote: »

Played up there last week and what a stunning golf course - apparently there is a Euro Pro Tour event this week so it was in fantastic nick. Anyone else played it?

I never hear anything but praise for it. Would love to play it.

golfnut1 · 11-06-2012 11:47am

A few guys from the club took a trip there. They all said it was class.

Dr_Colossus · 11-06-2012 12:04pm

Took a trip up to play an open day there in April for the first time and it's a very impressive place with spectacular views and some fantastic holes around by the lake. It's a long tough test of golf especially if the weather is against you with prolonged showers of freezing rain but when the sun comes out it's delightful. Some very unusual holes with great changes in elevation along with double dog legs and long carries over water.

While deserving of all the acclaim it receives I found it still a bit rough around the edges, alot of the aprons around the greens were quite clumpy so whether that's deliberate to make pitching and chipping more US Open style I don't know. It certainly made the game tough. I'd classify it as more of a rugged parkland with some deep heavy heathland style rough than a highly manicured and measured track.

The open days at €35 aren't exactly cheap but it's certainly worth a trip and the day out for such a quality course. Lovely and somewhat modest club house overlooking the course also with good and reasonably priced food.

Seves Three Iron · 11-06-2012 4:50pm

Concra Wood is a cracking course. Always worth 30 or 35 bob. But if you're going to judge it against the really top courses like the K Club, Mount Juliet, Black Bush and both Druids, then you'd have to point out two big flaws in the place;

* soggy fairways. As Pat Ruddy says, golf is best placed where the shoe stays dry.

* lack of decent paths and surfaces. I know this takes huge money but, still, the rough surface on the drive in and the car park and a good few of the paths around the course lets the place down.

We are always toughest on the ones we love!