Beckenham Place Park Golf Club

Played this course on Grand National Day 2010 and it was probably as packed as Aintree!
Nice enough setting within Beckenham Park and it does have potential, especially the back 9 which is a nice little test of Golf.
However, the greens are awful...I would rather putt on my back garden and £24 to play on what is in essence a park course is expensive.
Also... beware the hacker!...there are loads of them all over the place. Wide boys with no idea of how the game should really be enjoyed. Shame really.

I wouldnt go too far out of your way to play this course.
Rammed at peak times.
Fairways are very close and a bit 'criss-crossey' at times which can be lethal with 4 ball hackers surrounding you on all sides.
Most of the par 4's are driver/wedge.
5 or 6 nice golf holes here.
Condition of the course has been OK but given the summer we are having it should be.
If you are a high handicapper, local and can play mid week would be ideal for you to cut your teeth.
This isnt really a true test of golf and i am normally well under my handicap even when playing average golf.
Its an 'OK' course i suppose.

Just a note to say I played very early on a midweek morning Sep. 2008 and the green fee was £16. Very interesting course let down by the quality (or lack of) of the greens.

I played Beckenham Place Park today. The condition of the greens during this sunny July was consistently quick except for the wooded shade. One down side was the waterlogging that seemed to affect a couple of greens.
Beckenham has a fairly forgiving front 9 and a more wooded back 9. It can get busy and so you pay your money and risk the dreaded 4 ball hackers. We had no trouble today.
The course is only 7 miles from the centre of London and so expect anything to happen. We had armed police come up to us in a borrowed golf buggy and ask if we'd seen a "bloke with an afro" and then were buzzed by a helicopter as we putted. Having played this course a few times, nothing unusual about that.
The course is now £16 for a weekday which seems a little too pricey compared to using 2 fore 1 elsewhere but the fairways were in good nick for such a busy municipal course and the lateral water hazard that crosses 5 or 6 holes will still worry your drive.
One thing - there are no yardage markers on the course and a lot of the tee info boards are blank. Would it be too much trouble to erect some 150 marker posts on each hole?

I WILL NEVER PLAY HERE AGAIN !
I've played golf for over a decade and have never experienced the fury I had after playing 18 holes at beckenham place last weekend.
The members of this club made our playing group feel totally unwelcome. The behaviour bordered on rascism (our group is of asian descent). On several occassions, players spoke to us in broken english and continued to do so even after we replied with no accent to speak of!
To compound the situation, the play was extremely slow and social etiquette letalone golf etiquette was non existant.
Its a shame, because the course is nice but requires more maintenance.
I hope my post is of some help to others.

Played here 3 weeks ago for the first time. It's a very good course for the money, and although a little bit on the short side in places, there are still some challenging holes. They also make a mean sausage sandwich! The clubhouse could do with some improvement though.
I have only 1 major gripe. Whilst we were playing the 8th, 9th & 10th we saw two 2-balls arrive in their cars and walk onto the 8th tee without visiting the clubhouse to pay. The club needs to look at this by introducing a warden to check tickets on a regular basis.

iv'e played this course now 12 times this yr (2005) i think this is a a good course and is good value for money £15 for a 18 hole £10 for a nine, lots of work been done to the course over the last yr, greens are good also fairways are kept upto scratch, you have to be unlucky to get behinde total novices but if you do they will usaully let you play thru, bunkers are prodominatly to the side of the fairways so if you hit a good ball off the tee you see the rewards by not going nowhere near them, I think this course is great esspecially as its a coucil run course, im gonna be playing here a lot more this yr.

Played here last night. Only £7.50 for the round. Cannot complain about that. Fairways need a cut and greens a bit spongy. Apart from slow players who had to measure up every shot, it was a good night.

played the course today 12/04/04 this course is very well designed and picturesqe however the greens are kept in poor condition and i think it would be nice if the fairways were cut so that it would reward straight hitting. a round can also take four and a half hours and golfing etiquette is never followed if this course was better maintained it would be an absolute gem

Playing this course in the summer is a joy. It's quite a short course but well laid out and a good test. It can get busy in the summer, so I suggest that you arrive at, or just before, 9am, when you should be able to get away without any bother.

Found your site and thought it made agood read. Thought Id update you on the golf course and facilities. We have a new head Golf Professional, John Denham. He has been in residence for the past two years. Lewisham council is back in charge, and working in poartnership with DGM partnership for the day to day running of the course and clubhouse, as well as many capital improvements. The gents changing rooms are the most eagerly awaited addition to the clubhouse. Quite extensive work has been carried out on greens and fairways with an effort to aid with drainage problem which everyone is familiar with during the winter months. We also have a small fleet of golf buggies to
assist those who may find it difficult to walk the entire course. Our greenfees are not really any higher than they were two years ago. Adults(18-59 incl) £13 w/days, £18.50 w/ends; seniors £6.50 w/days £15 w/ends only after 1pm there is no reduction for earlier times, juniors are the
same w/days but only £10 at weekends.
Advisable to book in advance. However, we take bookings only weekend and bank holiday mornings up to 1pm. We find it quiet enough at other times to operate with a casual roll up and play policy.

Havent played for a while, but for the money well worth a visit. In good weather course is very good, but if it rains the course does not drain well (especially the 7th). Little bird told me that the 5th hole is the longest Par 3 in the country. Final 3 holes are sadastic (17 or 18th could quite easily be a par 5) but absolute joy to lauch your tee shot off the 16th as you are hitting down into a fairly hefty dip from the tee box - almost makes you feel that you have the distance of John Daly!!

I have played the course several dozen times this past year (2001). The front nine is more open, holes run side by side with little rough, whereas the back nine holes are more characteristic and require better shot-making. This course is very good value for money (£12 weekdays) but is let down terribly by several factors:
Inconsistent greens-some v.good, some terrible.
Poor teeing grounds, most aren't even flat! on the par-3 4th I always tee off the mat because the ground is so poor.
No discipline/etiquette on course, some golfers can be quite aggresive and threatening! a round can take upto 5 hours as just about anyone is allowed on the course, You can get caught behing a four ball of 10 year old beginners and i've even been stuck behind 5 and 6-balls!!
Vandalism, over the summer holidays it isn't uncommon to find flags missing and greens vandalised. All this aside it is a good challenging course worth visiting.

I've had mixed experiences here. During the winter the course can be in poor condition and teeing off winter mats is not much fun. Played there a couple of weeks ago though (August) and had a fantastic day. The course was in excellent condition for a highly used public course and there's no doubt that it has lots of character. The view as you hit up the (ridiculously long)par-3 5th towards the stately-home looking clubhouse was fantastic. Definately worth a punt during the summer, although always busy.

I played this course on 11th August 2001. Very nice course with a very good mixture of holes, from the straight-forward to the really quite challenging! A word of caution, however, is that it can get very busy and this can cause a backlog, especially as there appears to be no formal tee-time system (which I would suggest they should think about introducing). Nevertheless it is well worth a visit.

A fine, mature course with every hole providing a challenge. This is not one of the new style mundane courses, but a very old course with much charachter.
Hard 1st and 18th holes with an enourmous 5th hole par 3 measuring at nearly 250 yards.
If this was a privately owned course, this would be one to join.