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Stephen . (Wales) 22/06/08

Played both the Roman Road and Montgomerie in February and June respectively. Both occasions were weather perfect...blue skies and warm...well, June was HOT day.

Roman Road was a nice course with a bit of everything...flat, undulations, elevated green, big traps, good semi rough, nice fairways and lovely greens.

Staff were out keeping the course in top condition, a couple even helped look for my ball in between raking the bunkers.

Fairway's, Bunkers and Greens played and kept very well.

Challenging yet friendly course, DEFINITELY well worth the visit any day!!

Montgomerie Course was a different kettle of fish!! This was a course of fantastic holes but in physically challenging grounds... I would recommend a buggy here, we carried our bags and it was a HOT day, wouldn't do that again...and we keep quite fit....At the end you feel like you have been on a grueling test.

Anyway, the greens were superb!!!! The layout fantastic with well placed bunkers. Greens I found harder to read than Roman Road...TRICKY!

Optical Illusion best describes most of these holes so I rate this harder when u combine all its features.

CERTAINLY worth playing but remember it's not for couch potatoes ;-)

As for the Celtic Manor facilities and general resort and staff... OUTSTANDING and makes this place VERY more'ish.

Gym and Spa is top notch and you will not be disappointed.

Recommend the stay and play so u get to sample the Celtic Manor in full.

Value for Money	10
Challenge	9
Off Course	10

'Young P' (England) 27/10/07

Montgomerie Course

Revisited after the various redevelopments and this place has become even less my scene than before.

I've got through airports quicker than the amount of time it takes to faff around to get to the 1st tee (which was positioned 100 yards down the fairway because some muppets had been shanking balls into an adjacent house).

The course is a hybrid of the reworked unwanted 9 of the old Wentwood Hills course (which ironically includes some of the best, or rather better, holes from that architectural gaffe, that subsequently had to be rebuilt for the Ryder Cup) and Monty's fiddling with the old predominantly-par 3 Coldra Woods course.

The downhill par 5 3rd (formerly the 2nd on WH) is still a wonderful hole. But this course is an up and down slog, and it wasn't helped by fairways so wet that I was getting backspin off my driver.

But it's off-course that things really go downhill. The whole place feels like a cross between a Beverly Hills shopping mall (complete with ridiculously over-inflated prices – although jesus after flushing another £16m down the khazi in the latest redevelopments, I can understand Terry Matthews is desperate to recoup some pennies) and those pretentious hotels you find in those naff coffee table books.

You can only admire how Terry Matthews has put his money where his mouth is almost like no other person in world golf when it comes to the desire to host a huge tournament in his own country.

What a shame, therefore, that this resort is on this patch of land and the whole place is styled in such a crassly grandiose way.

Give me real golf any day.

5/10

'Young P' (h/c 9)

Value for Money	2
Challenge	7
Off Course	8

gary elrick (Wales) 26/06/06

played the wentwood hill course in september 2005 fairway lush and buncker excellent awesome views from the 3rd green whole day was fantastic. to round it off nick faldo signed some caps and balls for prizes well worth the visit

Value for Money	10
Challenge	10
Off Course	10

Matt Edwards (Wales) 26/12/05

Took advantage of the 'Winter Warmer' offer to play the Roman Road with a buggy and two course carvery lunch for #40.

At this price it's a course worth playing. However, if I'd paid the summer green fee of #60 to play it in it's current condition I'd be cross.

There were *hundreds* of divots not replaced on the fairways and most bunkers had seen action but not been raked.

Since the Wentwood Hills is closed for Ryder Cup remodelling, the Roman Road has had an hammering; especilly with this offer filling up the course with people who neither rake the bunkers or replace their divots.

Saying that though, the tees were in excellent condition as were the greens which are just brutal to play on.

Overall, the layout is a good one with some nice par 4's. The 5th hole which is SI 1 is an outragous par 5 which pretty much forces you to go for the green with your second shot. The fairway is both very narow and sloping steeply left to right in the lay-up area.

In the summer when there's less traffic and it's in better nick I bet it's a stunner - maybe worth it's normal asking price.

Value for Money	10
Challenge	9
Off Course	10

Dave Buck (England) 27/04/05

A group of eight of us (handicaps ranging from 6 to 25) played for three days in April 2005 and we had a fantastic time.

We played matchplay on the Coldra Woods course and found it great fun. Each hole has two tees (red & white) and two flags (also red & white). Red to red is much longer (some par 3's over 200 yards) with trickier pin positions and white to white is quite short with simpler pin positions.

The Roman Roads course was in excellent condition considering the amount of rain. However in my opinion it relied too much on overly fanciful bunkering to make an impression on otherwise bland holes. The odd hole though was terrific and overall it was a good course.

Wentwood Hills however was in another league - an excellent course. The second is a great hole even without the knockout views, and the holes around the water are excellent. It surprised us that the holes on the hills are the ones that are being dumped for the Ryder Cup - as we all found them to be our favourites. Strange.

Overall Celtic Manor is a terrific resort and a great place to spend a golf break.

Don Miller (England) 15/05/04

Played the Wentwood Hills course on Friday14th May. Talk about hard, the course is being set up for the Welsh Open in June and the fairways are about half as wide, the rough swallows all balls that fly in and does not always give them up again. Having said that we teed off about 12.30 and only saw about 10 other people on the course! If they set this up in the same manner for the Ryder Cup then it will be worth a few pennies on our team to beat the Americans. Enjoyed the round in spite of a couple of high scores. The lasting memory is finishing with a birdie on 18. You do seem to walk more having a buggy but the drop and correspondingly the climb up some of the hills makes it worth while. Looking forward to seeing the pro’s play this in June.