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Salcey Forest - Forestry England reviews
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Course Designer Reviewing - Beautiful and varied 9 hole course
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 27, 2024
Played the course:2-4 times
Pros:
- Good tees, two at each basket. The short tees make for a fun warm up round for all levels of player.
- Good baskets
- Varied holes - each is totally different testing a full range of shots
- varied landscape and foliage
- little interaction with other park users despite being in a busy site
- well signposted
- Good flow
- Free to play
- Good cafe and facilities on site
- Good baskets
- Varied holes - each is totally different testing a full range of shots
- varied landscape and foliage
- little interaction with other park users despite being in a busy site
- well signposted
- Good flow
- Free to play
- Good cafe and facilities on site
Cons:
- Some of the rough still needs to be managed
- It's only 9 holes?
- Car Parking's expensive
- 9th hole basket back to the 1st hole and car park is around a 200 meter walk. It often makes more sense to just play loops of 2 - 9 forgetting hole 1 as the second is right by the 9th.
- Hole 3 and parts of hole 6 can get very wet after heavy rain.
- No elevation to speak of.
- It's only 9 holes?
- Car Parking's expensive
- 9th hole basket back to the 1st hole and car park is around a 200 meter walk. It often makes more sense to just play loops of 2 - 9 forgetting hole 1 as the second is right by the 9th.
- Hole 3 and parts of hole 6 can get very wet after heavy rain.
- No elevation to speak of.
Other Thoughts:
I love Salcey.
This is the 4th Forestry England course in the country and the second to utilise dual tees. IMO it's the best of the 4 so far by some way.
The course was cut through deep varied woodland close to the visitor centre but in areas that haven't been used since they were planted. Each hole is totally different and tests a full range of shots.
There are a couple of lovely little streams that wind through the forest that you encounter on the way, they are not disc losers so just add a picturesque feel to the course.
Really fun course to play that even for a 9 holer is worth going out of your way for. As it is situated just off the M1 it's a great course to break up a journey when travelling up and down from London to the Midlands.
The course starts easier and gets harder as you go. The second is the best place to pick up an ace.
The par 4, 150m 5th is probably my favourite hole, a 90 - 110 meters drive through a tunnel of pines is required to get you out into the landing area, a glade populated by mature broadleaf trees and a couple of crossing ditches, where it dog legs to the left for a 50 ish meter up shot down the narrowing fairway to the basket. The three feels good, a 2 is possible and a 5 or 6 or worse is definitely on the cards.
The 9th is a 165 meter nearly dead straight tunnel shot down a row of pine trees, through a glade from 80 - 110m where it crosses a small ditch/creek and then back into a pine tunnel to the basket. Similar in feel to the infamous Hole 4 at Blue Ribbon Pines but with a bit more distance.
A perfect course to get people into the sport with the short tees and then hook them with the long.
This is the 4th Forestry England course in the country and the second to utilise dual tees. IMO it's the best of the 4 so far by some way.
The course was cut through deep varied woodland close to the visitor centre but in areas that haven't been used since they were planted. Each hole is totally different and tests a full range of shots.
There are a couple of lovely little streams that wind through the forest that you encounter on the way, they are not disc losers so just add a picturesque feel to the course.
Really fun course to play that even for a 9 holer is worth going out of your way for. As it is situated just off the M1 it's a great course to break up a journey when travelling up and down from London to the Midlands.
The course starts easier and gets harder as you go. The second is the best place to pick up an ace.
The par 4, 150m 5th is probably my favourite hole, a 90 - 110 meters drive through a tunnel of pines is required to get you out into the landing area, a glade populated by mature broadleaf trees and a couple of crossing ditches, where it dog legs to the left for a 50 ish meter up shot down the narrowing fairway to the basket. The three feels good, a 2 is possible and a 5 or 6 or worse is definitely on the cards.
The 9th is a 165 meter nearly dead straight tunnel shot down a row of pine trees, through a glade from 80 - 110m where it crosses a small ditch/creek and then back into a pine tunnel to the basket. Similar in feel to the infamous Hole 4 at Blue Ribbon Pines but with a bit more distance.
A perfect course to get people into the sport with the short tees and then hook them with the long.
