Robert Butlin
12 handicap golfer. Enjoys attempting lot hit it a long way and reviewing some of the less well known of a county’s better golf courses.
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Canons Brook 18/10/2020
7th
Canon’s Brook does not subscribe to the easy start school of golf. Except perhaps for the longest hitter the first is a lay up with a long second over the brook itself. T...
Bramshaw (Manor) 26/09/2020
14th
I enjoyed playing the Manor course at Bramshaw last week. It is a nice parkland course with good holes to test a golfer. It also offers an appropriate mix of risk and rew...
Seaton Carew (Old) 13/08/2020
1st
68th
I played the Old layout at Seaton Carew on a still, somewhat misty morning with a gentle zephyr out of the north east - all in all benign conditions. The pin positions we...
The Addington 15/06/2020
16th
58th
They don’t make them like the Addington any more. Ravines, bridges, bunkers, blind shots, uphill and downhill shots, narrow fairways, Wide fairways, some heather (but pro...
Isle of Purbeck (Purbeck) 19/09/2019
5th
77th
Isle of Purbeck is a bit like a stylish uncle whose clothes and manner still reek class, but whose clothes are a bit threadbare. It does have the best views I’ve had on a...
Broadstone 07/09/2019
1st
30th
74th
Broadstone is a big course in a number of ways. First it has elevation, second it has views, third it has space and fourth, despite having only two par fives it has long...
Royal Ashdown Forest (Old) 18/08/2019
3rd
39th
92nd
Royal Ashdown Forest is a splendid walk, indeed the course is worth walking even without clubs. Plenty of locals also think it’s worth a stroll. Some of them enjoy the o...
Royal Blackheath 12/07/2019
15th
Royal Blackheath is quite a grand club. It’s also a decent golf course, to my mind with a better back nine than front nine. A little unusually the course is essentially r...
New Zealand 07/07/2019
14th
54th
What shall we say about New Zealand? It’s certainly golf for gentlemen and gentle ladies. Driving range; I’m afraid not sir: chipping green; not here madam. Putting green...
Sweetwoods Park 08/06/2019
18th
I played very badly at Sweetwoods, so I’ve tried to de-couple how I played from the course. I do broadly agree with the the one previous reviewer; there are some rather d...
Dunstable Downs 02/06/2019
2nd
I do rather like Dunstable Downs, though it does definitely have some quirks. It’s a course of two parts; 1 to 9 are down in the valley, 10 works it’s way to the top and...
Berkshire (Blue) 18/05/2019
3rd
36th
83rd
It’s been said before, and will no doubt be again, but the Berkshire experience is only in part about the golf courses. The other part is about the 18 hole putting green,...