7th Aug 2012

The Newbury and Crookham golf club was founded in 1923.

It is ranked the 6th among the Berkshire golf courses.

Categories   Score   Description
Proshop         3      medium size shop

Club House      3      old but cosy. The shower area in the changing room needs some renovation

Practice Area   2      small putting green and the strangely located bunker practice area(need to cross the playing fairway); they have no driving range but the members just hit the practice  balls across the 1st and 13th fairway. you will find a lot of balls lying the fairways.
Tee Ground      5      white(5961), yellow(5739) and red(5269),very common and nothing special 
Fairway         8      Fairway width varies. There are a few holes that have steep slopes.. The fairway grass has good quality and is felt a bit like carpet.

Course Design   3      The front 9 is a good design that well using the hills and slopes. The back 9 is very cramped and very dangerous as the tee and green are very close. There are some fairways that cross each other.
PAR 3          10      Five par 3s with different challenges from shot iron to long iron. The hills and greenside bunkers are specially interesting.
PAR 5           4      only two par 5s 
Green           9      The greens are m1edium size. The quality is superb with good speed. the surface is smooth. We can call it, the true green 
Bunkers         6      The shape of the bunker is a bit linky. The top sand is soft but a bit harder further down.
Signature hole  10    The 3rd par 3 164 yards, steep down hill.

                     The 6th par 3 125 yards, the greenside bunkers are the killers

                     The 8th par 4 424 yards, uphill and hidden small green. A very tough par 4

                     The 9th par 3 180 yards, a long  par 3 when wind agains. the green is very tricky and you may want to land below the hole

                     The 17th par 3, greenside bunkers and the narrow long green are the specials

Total          63    The Newbury and Crookham golf club has very interesing front 9 holes, espcially the par3s. But very bad design of the back 9s, it is so dangourse that  you may want to buy golf insurance before you play there