Richmond Park Golf Club in Watton, Breckland, England | GolfPass
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3.0
77 Reviews 77 Reviews
5 Stars
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4 Stars
18
3 Stars
18
2 Stars
15
1 Stars
19
Conditions
2.5
Value
3.4
Layout
3.6
Friendliness
3.4
Pace
4.1
Amenities
2.4
60.8%
Recommend this course
39 out of 77 reviews
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3.8
11 Reviews 11 Reviews
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1
Conditions
3.3
Value
4.3
Layout
4.0
Pace
4.0
Amenities
2.7
StaffFriendliness
3.9
81.8%
Recommend this course
9 out of 11 reviews
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3.5
15 Reviews 15 Reviews
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Conditions
2.9
Value
3.9
Layout
3.8
Pace
4.0
Amenities
2.5
StaffFriendliness
3.8
73.3%
Recommend this course
11 out of 15 reviews
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Holes 18
Type Resort
Style Parkland
Par 71
Length 6235 yards
Slope N/A
Rating N/A
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Course Details

Year Built 1990

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - GBP 25
Pull-carts Yes
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Proper attire is required.

Food & Beverage

Restaurant

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Conference Facilities
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3.0
77 Reviews (77)
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Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Winter golf round

2nd time out this year. Played this course before and I like it's set up. Lots of challenges. Fairways were in good condition and the greens in places could do with some care and attention. Overall, fantastic value at £15 for the round. Will be going again.

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Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
1.0
First Time Playing

Don’t waste your time or money

How can you call this a golf course. £36 x2 golfers, daylight robbery. Needs to be taken off of here and never to be advertised. Golfnow would be ashamed. Work on the course or shut it down.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
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Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing

Get what you pay for

I can’t really slate this course for the price of £15 for a round in that mind it’s great but don’t expect anything amazing here. It’s a pretty straight course but not dead straight, signs are highly lacking without my swingu app I’d be clueless where to go on quite a few holes even with the app we started to play two holes a second time before noticing the mistake.

Club house is very dated and pretty run down no cooked for avaible ever so don’t expect to eat here we went the The old bell 2 mins away with was a lovely traditional pub with great food and a great pint of Guinness.

This club has been sold and it’s shows as the staff don’t seem to bothered about their jobs I turned up at 8.45 to check in for my tee time at 9.06 and it seemed like the course was closed everything was shut no idea what to do I could have easily not have paid and just gone on the course with no one the wiser, putting green is ok, driving range has no distance markers so do expect to go there to practice to improve really it’s just a warm up range in my eyes

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Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Wet weather
Walked
Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Great value for money

Had an enjoyable round of golf on a great course. The conditions were good and the course was kept well, although I can imagine it does get wet winter time. I have played lots of different courses throughout East Anglia and this is one of my favourites, so I’m not sure what these people who leave poor reviews are used to 🤷🏻‍♂️. It was my first time playing here and will certainly not be my last.

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Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing

18 holes

First Time playing here very good course and great value for money

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
3.0
Previously Played

Challenging

Course was as I’d expect for a parkland course with lots of water hazards, very soft but totally playable.
Challenging course, tee to green but greens reasonably easy, many water hazards and the rough is very thick just off the fairways to the point I lost a few balls that should have been found.
Needs more next tee markers but I managed to find my way.
Some really nice holes on the course a few just after thoughts but October views of tree lined fairways were great.
All staff and other golfers friendly an enjoyable round.
Would play again.

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Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Fair
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Great course

Really happy with this course, I find this one a bit trickier than the others I play but that's what I like about it, bit more thought involved. Very enjoyable course.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 5
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
First Time Playing
Windy weather
Walked

Reasonable value for money

The visit to Richmond Park Golf Club served the purposes intended for my wife and I. We stayed in the on-site accommodation and used our stay as an opportunity to visit different locations in Norfolk, such as Norwich and Sandringham. We knew we weren’t playing at The Belfry! The pace of play was great because very few people play there! It is such a pity, because there is potential to make this a much more attractive venue, but it is clear that the owners have a struggle on their hands to make this a viable, fully functioning, golf club. We wish them well.

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Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Fair
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
First Time Playing

Do not waste your time

Course hadn’t been cut. Dead duck laying next to tee box. Greens cracked open and black. Tee boxes in awful condition. Awful sign postage to each tee box. Overall waste of a round and waste of money, wouldn’t recommend to anyone due to looking like I’d visited the course during a worldwide disaster in which every green keeper had been abducted.

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Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played

Sleeping Beauty

I hadn't played at Richmond Park for several years. It was one of my favourite courses to play. I was a bit disappointed to see that the place has been unloved for a while.
Just turning up in the car park you can see the decline, with weeds everywhere and untrimmed hedges. The course looks like it's understaffed, as the rough has been allowed to grow in to a very punishing level. Especially along the sides of streams and ditches. The tee boxes, although they had been cut, were covered in weed. The fairways were in generally good condition and neatly cut. Some of the greens were in poor condition in places, but overall they were cut and ran smoothly.
The clubhouse also appears understaffed, with the bar staff also running the Pro shop.
All in all, this is still a lovely golf club. It's just in need of a bit of TLC to get it back to it's former glory.
We paid £18 each for a weekend round of golf. Good value for money in my opinion.

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Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Woeful

Such a shame, course was always in lovely condition and a pleasure to play. Now it’s hard to find a course out there. Tees and greens not maintained, similar to a pitch and putt and the beach but probably even worse. No markers out anywhere, flag sticks are old and torn. Only good thing is it’s dead as no one wants to play. Hard to find a member of staff and it’s like a ghost town

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Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Poor
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
First Time Playing

Lack of maintainence

You couldn’t tell the fairway from the rough. Tee boxes overgrown. Pro shop wasn’t open at 10am on a Sunday. Poor overall experience and won’t be returning.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Poor
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing

Lovely course but greens need a bit of tlc

Greens have seen better days, nice to see that the pin was in the best part of the green but large dead areas and large cracks not ideal. Great course layout but as a first time visitor a few signs for tee locations would have been appreciated or even a course map on the back of the scorecard would have helped

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Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Walked

Could be really good

Played here a few times just recently, really relaxed vibe about the place, the heavy rough is brutal, and some of fairways tight. not very busy for a Saturday, so if not to bothered about immaculate greens and tee boxes, and just want a social fun round, you have nothing to lose.

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Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Walked

Re-visited

Introducing my son playing on a full course, was good experience, I am a member elsewhere, but local to this course, i used to play it as part of a society. In them days it was very good. The rough is particularly challenging, and the three times we have played recently, they have cut that back quite a bit. Bunkers are generally compacted sand, and the greens look worse than they actually play. there was no staff on site or the bar was not open, so cannot comment on that aspect. but for what we paid and where we travelled from would recommend for a twilight round but keep your expectations low to moderate.

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Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
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