A flat resort-style members course built around a number of salt-water lakes close to the 'city' of George Town and the main centre of the island.

The layout is relatively short due to limited land space, with many holes being two adjacent fairways separated by water. The greens were the only real highlight, being a well-manicured tropical grass that rolled well. There is an extra premium on North Sound now as one of its nearby neighbours (Brittania) has been closed.

Nice place for a hit, but because many of the holes are 'sameish', I found it overall quite forgettable.

I was expecting so much more from the best course in the country. It was all nice but Tryall in no way justified the hefty price tag.

Instead a fairly generic resort parkland course, with a couple of holes near the ocean. The layout makes some use of gently rising and falling terrain, in the middle section and mostly on the back nine; the bunkers were good quality; and the greens rolled true. However, there were bare patches on the greens and too many holes seemed quickly forgettable, especially early and then late in the round.

My compulsory caddie gave some good assistance with reads on the greens, but didn't add much else to the round. Still, an enjoyable day golfing but maybe the problem was more I'd set my expectations too high.

Holiday golf with a holiday price tag - I enjoyed the golf, but the word mediocre kept creeping into my mind.

Unfortunately, that seems to be to simply extract as much from the tourist than it does to indicate a high-quality course.

As has been described in most reviews below, the front nine is much more resort style, open fairways, on the lower half of the property. The views on the stretch 5-7 are lovely, but it's the view that is doing all the heavy lifting and not the golf. Sure, 5 as a longish par 4 heading down to the ocean is a nice sweeping hole framed in the background, and six requires a well hit iron over a small curve in the bay, but there are plenty of resort friendly bail outs too. My favourite on this nine was the 7th which plays uphill and requires a well hit drive to derisk the approach. Anything not in good position off the tee introduces doubt about the approach, as the green is set over a gully, dog-legged from the fairway and at an oblique angle. Lay up or go for it? The back of the green is framed in bunkers as that is the safe bail out option with the gully in front.

The back nine winding up and back into the forest has the advantage of elevation changes and I believe, are the stronger holes on the course. The fairway width also narrows, but not too much as to be overly penal. Instead it requires a little more thought about how to best manage approaches to the greens. I liked the par 3 13th, with a large and obviously deep bunker framing front and left, as well as the short par 4 16th and snaking par 5 17th.

The main problem I have, however, is that the conditioning was poor. With resort courses you normally know what you're getting for your cartball experience and one of those is generally good conditioning. Cinnamon Hill was a nice enough course and probably spectacular when new, but is now suffering because of the tropical environment. The included carts were in quite poor condition and the paths were genuinely terrible. Many of the greens were patchy and there were areas of mud on many back nine fairways, tee boxes and some greens. It was more than just overwatering and there hadn't been much rain in the preceding days.