Woolston Manor Golf & Country Club

The condition of the course is currently very poor: fairways are not taken care off at all , greens are full of pitchmarks with many bare areas and bumpy everywhere, bunkers are full of stones, most rakes broken and there are a lot of GUR/No Play areas. Not worh the money.

Beautiful layout, shabby condition. Sand riddled with stones, lots and lots of weeds on fairways, greens in poor condition. It's actually quite a well laid out and challenging course. So quite a pity they've let the condition get into a mediocre state.

Lovely track in great condition and nice staff, will return!

Having read mostly negative reviews, which I feel (having played today) are baseless, I decided to play a warm up round prior to the weekend which I have also booked. Firstly, I arrived an hour early. The course was quiet, and Jack (Pro Shop) was welcoming and kind enough to say “go out whenever you’re ready”. Excellent start! The course was playing short, which is fine for the winter. Tees were forward and played from actual tee boxes (not artificial). For February, they were perfectly flat and acceptable. Fairways are (all told) in excellent condition with tight lies. Essex clay will require constant ball cleaning, but that’s par for the course in Winter. Greens ran ‘relatively’ true and were consistent. It’s not Augusta, so manage your expectations. The course layout is interesting with some reductions to the length of par 5s, giving good opportunities to capitalise. Mid distance par 3s and manageable par 4s also make this course an enjoyable and not overly difficult place to score low, if you’re on song? Greens staff have done an excellent job in tending to the property, providing an all round totally satisfactory golf course and conditions. Buggy/Trolley paths are excellent and protect the course in wet weather. No boggy areas from Green to Tee, which is a remarkable achievement. Well done! Summing up…. My overall experience exceeded my expectations. I like to think I give an honest appraisal. I recommend playing the course and I’ll certainly be making it a more frequent venue in the Spring and Summer. Thanks again to Jack in the Pro Shop. Nice guy and nice chat afterwards. Cheers. Damian 6hcp shot 74.

Course was in good shape considering the weather we've been having at the moment..

Paths were great for buggy use as fairways are still a little wet.. Overall it's was a fun to play . Bunkers needs some TLC, but apart from that it was great value for money and a pleasure to play...

Play here a lot and the sunny weather has really helped it
Greens and fairways were like prime summer again

Course was in terrible conditions (not the fact that it was winter) but poor quality all around.

The club house was in shambles, pro shop an absolute mess (this isn’t even giving them a break for the construction that was going on), and the staff inside were incredibly snide and unhelpful.

Overall, for £40, you’re better off going to top golf next door.

PS, don’t let people drive buggies on rainy days when even the cart paths are basically all mud

I have played at Woolston Manor a few times before and enjoyed it hence why we booked to play on Sunday. Woolston manor was hosting a reberance day tournament on Sunday morning with a shotgun start, however they didn’t block off the tee times for the rest of the morning. This lead to there being a delays to tee off and very very slow pace of play, where we was having to wait 5/10 mins after every shot. We teed off at 10:37 and by 2.30 we had only played 12 holes. We decided to stop there as it became clear we hasn’t going to finish the round due to how slow play was. Very poor from the Woolston manor tournament organisers and moderators, and clearly shows the club being extremely greedy. Especially when being charged £40

will highly recommend someone who is a decent striker of the ball.it is definitely not suitable for beginners.
Some holes the tee off are challenging and need to go across water and wasreland.
Would highly recommend to experience golfer.
Definitely will visited the club again in the near future

Course was in great condition considering the rain fall. Was a great challenge as there are a fair few traps and ponds. Pace was great felt like we were on our own.

Course in great condition, also had sand delivered for the bunkers (not filled in as of yet) was a great day

I've played this course a couple of times now and it's got a great layout and some challenging holes but have enjoyed expect the last couple of times. The Sumner I know has been late coming and when I played last a couple of thr bunkers where more like lakes. This time many are u der repair but this was not reflected in price of any notices on the course to confirm if they where in play but mist still had rakes in. These was a number with drained ducts being laid. The course was particularly slow as well with a few times having to wait nearly 5 mins to tee off. In this current condition not worth £40. Timining for this level of repair is questionable and maybe cost reduction or at least notifying people when booking or on arrival.

This course used to be so much better in its day. Now it’s just tired and run down and in desperate need of some TLC. The set up of the course is truly excellent and it has some real potential to become a gem of a course if only some serious money could be invested in it to take it to that next level. The pace of play was pitiful when we played and seriously 5 hours for a round as a three ball is actually disgraceful! The greens are pretty slick so that’s a positive but the fairways lack irrigation and colour and in some places were rock hard! Also could do with some proper manicuring of fairways and rough areas. Bunkers were the real sour point though and really spoilt the whole experience, considering there are so many of them on this course. Every single bunker was GUR yet there was literally not a single sign to say so anywhere, and we weren’t even warned about this at any point of booking or upon arrival in the pro shop prior to play. To be honest I won’t be coming back here again in a hurry even at the price we paid which was relatively cheap and this is solely down to the course not being playable around any areas approaching the greens. Having to drop our ball out of every bunker as a free drop just didn’t feel like a real game of golf at all and our scores were therefore not a true reflection of the actual game. Also the pace of play was just infuriating, not only were our tee times delayed by about 25 minutes, don’t ask why! Perhaps some double booking going on there….but the fourball we had in front of us had to be the slowest and most annoying fourball you could ever encounter on a golf course. I’d say pay that extra tenner and go somewhere that is actually in decent condition rather than waste 5 hours of your life trudging through this pigsty of a course, there’s plenty of better deals out there to be honest.

The pro shop and bar staff were very friendly. But there was no word either on the website or when I rang to book a tee time that the course is in the midst of a revamp. The bunkers were completely torn up and unplayable. Some of the fairways had clumps of grass laying about, as they are not cutting it frequently enough. Greens felt like a wet sponge, as they were apparently getting watered between groups.
It has the makings of a beautiful course. The guys I played with that had been there before said as much. But unfortunately it was in terrible shape when I got there.
Make sure to inquire about the state of the course before booking anything.