A stern test (Hever Golf Club)

Member Name: TonyTHEtiger

Product:	Hever Golf Club
Date:	14/06/00 (223 review reads)
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Advantages: A pleasure to play

Disadvantages: Unforgiving

Immaculate course, perfect setting in the Kent countryside, but not one designed for the moderate-to-poor golfer.

You start with five par 4s in a row, and these give you an idea how testing the course is. The fairways start generous and degenerate into very mean, a perfect tee shot must often be followed by a very precise approach - as the greens are lightening fast.

You can be inspired by the standard of golfers around you - but the clientele get impatient - frequently our foursome had balls pinging to within feet of us by over-eager country-folk standing on the tee.

The 12th hole is particularly special, standing as it does next to a conveniently placed sandwich hut. Grab a cheese/pickle and a donut, then take a trusty 8 iron and try and land on a tiny green across the watery valley. Bend the ball right as I did and you'll end up in a forestry grave.

This course will bring out the best and worst in your game, but try and savour the quality of the course condition - bunkers, fairways, greens and clubhouse are immaculate.

But at £55 a round for 18-holes as a guest, you'd be advised to make sure somebody else is paying.

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