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Rob A (England) 15/12/06

Played this is mid october and this really is a lovely course. Driving up to the course i thought it looked like some old beach cafe..was i wrong. The club house is probably the nicest i have been too. The bar has beautiful views over the beach and the course.

As for the course, i wasn't impressed by the first few holes and so many people had told me how amazing the course was that i felt dissapointed, but gradually the course got better and better and better. The condition was absolutly lovely.

Value for Money	9
Challenge	9
Off Course	9

Tony Ransley (England) 02/08/06

A spectacular venue.

The course is challenging and the pot bunkers will trap the best bunker players. Each hole has its own challenge. The 7th in particular ("Death or Glory") lives up to its name.

The club house facilities are superb. If you love golf and want a day to remember its worth the money.

Value for Money	8
Challenge	9
Off Course	9

k HOLTON (England) 13/07/05

This is easily the best links course on the south coast - Littlehampton aspires to be a good course, and is in it's own way, but doesn't have the concistency of excellent holes that Hayling has.

The start luls you into a false sense of security. The course is very difficult, wide open fairways, lots of gourse and heather and think rough, greens small and very quick. A great test, go and play it. If you play close to your handicap you are a good player.

The clubhouse is new, and the food excellent, all in all highly recommended

Value for Money	7
Challenge	8
Off Course	8

Young P (England) 20/10/03

Hayling wasn't in Golf World's GB & Ireland's Top 100 Courses of 2002, but I'm sure it can't have been far off.

After a friendly welcome, we found the course to be tough, yet varied and enjoyable. Obviously, your score will to a large extent be determined by the weather. Thankfully, when we played, the wind was generally lenient and forgiving – just as well, since we were off the whites (6531 yards).

If I had to be critical (which, lets face it, is partly why I'm writing this, as much as to praise), the start is arguably the weakest part of the course and in no way does justice to some of the treats that are to follow.

After two fairly unremarkable opening holes, the course gradually starts to stick it's teeth in. Three and four are two long-ish dogleg par 4s (403 and 410 yards respectively), which preface an extremely tricky par 3 (not called Narrows without good reason) and then the 434-yard SI 1 par 4 sixth – a brute of a hole that needs to be respected yet attacked.

By the time you reach the eighth, you're in the dunelands at the far end of the course, which is home to the best sequence of holes.

This includes delights such as the eighth – a short but tricky par 4 with the green hidden behind dunes; the excellent par 3 eleventh, with it's daunting array of pot bunkers; the long, narrow and demanding par 4 twelfth (444 yards); the quirky short par 4 thirteenth (best to lay up with an iron); and the 534 yard-long par 5 fourteenth. I was interested to read below that the latter has been recognised as the best par 5 on the south coast – play it and it's not difficult to see why.

The finish isn't any easier, with some ferociously testing par 4s at 15 (430 yards) and 17 (432 yards), plus an examining par 3 at 17, which weighs in at 183 yards. Maybe the 18th isn't the most dramatic climax given what's gone before but, then again, maybe the designer decided to give the golfer a tiny bit of respite?

I don't think I had even heard of Hayling before my playing partner took me. There may be better links courses in England - but not many more than half a dozen or so.

9/10

'Young P'

Alex Campbell (Canada) 19/01/02

Played Hayling last Summer, simply stunning.

Great traditional links golf and fabulous views of the Isle of Wight / Portsmouth.

Every hole is memorable though if you are a high handicapper I would suggest you play with a member, some of the carries are simply unachievable for twenty-something handicappers even on a calm day. (The locals tell me this doesn't happen often !)

They're in the process of building a new clubhouse which will make Hayling an even more attractive proposition.

Pay them a visit - highly recommended

R McMullan (Canada) 25/08/00

Hayling Island is an excellent links golf course, with some beautiful holes, including some tricky blind shots. The greens are in fantastic condition, being very true, and quite fast.

However, our pleasure was ruined as the pro shop did not have any yardage charts. This made it very difficult to determine some of the hole layouts from the tee, and impossible to judge the distances to the corner of the doglegs or to the hazards in the middle of the fairway (eg: the 6th, where by luck we didn't hit drivers or we would have lost our balls in the water hazard that bisected the fairway!).

Please, please please get some yardage charts for this course, so the visitor can get the same enjoyment as the members. I envy Mr Ainge who played with some members - I wish we had known some! Unfortunately, we left the course feeling very disappointed.