Woodhall Spa Golf Club - The National Golf Centre — Attraction in East Lindsey

I visited Woodhall Spa with some golfing friends a couple of months ago. The scenery is great and it's a very challenging course kept in good condition.

However, when we were in the pro shop before the round, it wasn't properly explained to us that we need to use mats off the fairway. 4 or 5 holes in we had the same pro (Nikita I believe) who served us in the shop drive up to us to have a moan about the fact we weren't using mats. He told us that he had had 4 or 5 calls from the group behind us reporting it. We said that no one had explained this to us, and he told us that we would have been told in the pro shop. However he was the same person who served us and he didn't say anything. He didn't accept accountability and gave us some mats and told us there's a pro behind us who will be keeping a close eye. The group behind us caught up a couple of holes later and told us they didn't snitch. The Lady pro in the group was very kind and encouraged us to just enjoy the course and assured us that no one in her group snitched. So we let them play through and we continued.

For a few holes after we had different person (green keeper perhaps) follow us around the course in a golf cart and hiding between the trees. One player in our group played a bunker shot and the guy in the cart hurried up to him, grabbed the rake and said that there has been multiple complaints that we are not raking the bunkers. This was nonsense, we make a point of leaving the bunkers better than we found them. Day ruined.

We have played quite a few nicer golf courses around the country, and this was the first proper negative experience we have encountered. I hope it was a one off as I'd like to visit the...

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Nice place, good facilities, helpful staff. I played the bracken first about 6 weeks ago really good course it was lovely condition, greens were true and a nice pace.....it had character and considering nobody really raves about it much I found myself wanting to play it again a really good course thats a stiff test of golf. Played the Hotchkin today and was really excited to be playing such a prestigious course with a huge reputation for being one of the best courses in the country.......wow ive never been so disappointed with a golf course.....i personally wouldnt put it in the top 10 in the county never mind the country it has no real charm or character its fairly open and it feels like your just knocking around a baron field not a golf course. The rough and bunkers are extreme and the punishment is always worse than the crime after missing a fairway by not much your lucky if you can find your ball nevermind hack it out and I then watched a really good player miss a green by 2 yrds and hit 4 out the bunker because of its severity.......the punishment should be going in the bunker not then it being impossible to get out....it quickly wears thin and to be honest I was happy to finish the round. I think the Hotchkin is hugely overrated ive played much much nicer courses and I think its sister course is a better experience. Dont believe the hype...woodhall golf club and the bracken are great but the Hotchkin was a massive let down for...