The 3rd is the 1st of 4 par 3's and is delightful mid length one shotter.  The green sits on the hillside tucked between the 2nd fairway and 4th tee box, has sharp fall away banking left, a false front and a green with some excellent slopes and breaks.

The 4th is played from an elevated tee and whilst straight away and not long, is a very pretty hole with excellent views.

The 5th plays across a deep valley, with the interest on this hole being your approach shot to an elevated blind green, with all the danger left as a miss left will send your ball 30 - 40 yards down the hillside.

The 6th is the best of the par 3s.  191 yards long but asks so many questions of the player.  Hugging a gully to the left, do you take on this all carry approach to a small green, with severe run off banking left and thick 'lose your ball ' trees and bushes, or play safe right, trying to get your ball to feed around to the hole?

The 7th is a nice par 5, with a blind 2nd shot to a really good green. 2 tiered and Heather mounds surrounding, proving you dont need bunkers when you can present a greens challenge as this hole does.

The 8th is a weaker hole - short, narrow with out of place small pine trees to the left, the hole design let's down what is otherwise another excellent green, where your angle of approach is key. I feel that the ideal line in would be from the left and there's enough land for the club to change this hole should they desire.

The front 9 finishes with an OK right to left dog leg, uphill. The back 9 does start strongly after the drop off at the end of the front 9, with a gem of a par 5. Visually pretty, the tee shot has to be threaded through a narrow opening, before this sweeping dog leg right opens up uphill. With heather in bloom this hole was a pleasure to play.

After the weaker stretch 11 - 13, the 14th allows the round to pick back up. A par 5, this hole is all about your distance off the tee (as heather extends across the fairway at around 260 yards) and more importantly your 2nd which requires a long carry across the heather downhill towards the green. The bunker left is the 1st bunker which really fits in with Crowboroughs heathland credentials and I wished they had more bunkers like this in all honesty. This is a beautiful green site.

The 15th is another average hole, where the slope will feed everything right. The 16th however is a really good short par 4, played across a ravine, but a good drive will only leave a gap wedge into the green that is cut into the hillside above you. Relatively flat, the main defence is the miss to the right (all trees and gorse) and the fact your ball will be below your feet on your short wedge in.

17th is an OK par 3 but the course does have a very strong par 4 finish. Off the tee it asks how tight to the heather covered rough do you want to flirt with, to shorten the hole on this long 443 yard dog leg left. Or do you play further right but this probably makes this hole a par 5 for the average player. The bunkers on 18 are fitting for a heathland hole of this quality and the sloping green will test you up and until that last putt drops.

Fantastic undulating land is, on the whole maximised but there are a few too many average holes around the higher, flatter parts of the course to really get my juices flowing. Overall, a worthy entrant in England Top 100, but with some stiff competition around the lower ranking spaces,  whether it stays there in the future is another question altogether.