Sunningdale New is a wonderful course with many changes in recent years, primarily tree removal. The Old is clearly the better of the two courses, with better holes, bunkering, and interesting architectural features.

This is a very demanding course off the tee and unless you are a consistently straight driver of the ball, you will lose many balls. While the fairways are generous, the heather runs with the fairways and you have a 50/50 chance of not finding your ball (it's especially difficult on the blind tee shots to locate a ball). If you do find it, it is a wedge back into the fairway.

The green speeds are much closer to what you'd see in America than in the UK--pure greens that roll at about 10 on the stimpmeter.

This is a very good course, but when anyone asks what is the most overrated course I've played, it will now be Sunningdale New. Hankley Common is better. West Sussex is at least as good. Berkshire Red is as good. In fact, if Sunnindale New were located in the U.S., I am not sure it'd make my Top 100 U.S.