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Caldecott Hall reviews
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Played on:May 28, 2023
Played the course:once
Pros:
- Lovely setting
- Superb maintenance
- Good Baskets and signage
- Practice basket to warm up
- Playing through short cut well drained fairways under the scotch pines to finish the round is a joy,
- Superb maintenance
- Good Baskets and signage
- Practice basket to warm up
- Playing through short cut well drained fairways under the scotch pines to finish the round is a joy,
Cons:
- Only 9 holes
- Snakes! Probably just harmless grass snakes but walked into a nest of them in the long grass at the back of hole 5 whilst designing the course looking at possible other tee positions and noped the hell out of there with my mind screaming they were adders and were chasing me down for the kill. I'm very brave. Honest.
- Snakes! Probably just harmless grass snakes but walked into a nest of them in the long grass at the back of hole 5 whilst designing the course looking at possible other tee positions and noped the hell out of there with my mind screaming they were adders and were chasing me down for the kill. I'm very brave. Honest.
Other Thoughts:
Caldecott is a superb nine hole course attached to the pitch and putt. Although Pay to play it is on the lower end of UK pricing.
The course is rarely used by golfers but the Disc golf has been designed to flow alongside the golf anyway for rounds to play at the same time.
The setting and amenities on site are wonderful and I just love Scotch Pines as trees in general but especially as obstacles for a course. The last three holes play through these with two par 4's and a 3
As the course was predominately targeted for new players the tee maps and markers are all set at the front end of the large golf tees. However when designing the course we were looking at the back end first on each hole which adds length and technicality to an experienced player. The tees are just grass but this is the well tended, drained and maintained golf teeing areas.
You will see this immediately on hole one where the back of the tee produces a lovely tunnel shot before opening out and adds around 15 meters in length to the hole, 2 and 3 don't change too much but every other hole becomes significantly trickier from the back tee positions, introducing early danger as well as distance.
This culminates in hole 9 which opens up a two route hole from the back tee position and adds around 40 meters in distance for a really memorable finishing par 4.
If you are in the area I'd highly recommend checking Caldecott out, it's well worth the stop
The course is rarely used by golfers but the Disc golf has been designed to flow alongside the golf anyway for rounds to play at the same time.
The setting and amenities on site are wonderful and I just love Scotch Pines as trees in general but especially as obstacles for a course. The last three holes play through these with two par 4's and a 3
As the course was predominately targeted for new players the tee maps and markers are all set at the front end of the large golf tees. However when designing the course we were looking at the back end first on each hole which adds length and technicality to an experienced player. The tees are just grass but this is the well tended, drained and maintained golf teeing areas.
You will see this immediately on hole one where the back of the tee produces a lovely tunnel shot before opening out and adds around 15 meters in length to the hole, 2 and 3 don't change too much but every other hole becomes significantly trickier from the back tee positions, introducing early danger as well as distance.
This culminates in hole 9 which opens up a two route hole from the back tee position and adds around 40 meters in distance for a really memorable finishing par 4.
If you are in the area I'd highly recommend checking Caldecott out, it's well worth the stop
