Haywards Heath Golf Club

I have a good friend who is a member of this club though I actually got a round in with some of my regular playing partners. It was the first round I've had at Haywards Heath and will be the last.
Good points - practice facilities seem good, Ok'ish reception from the club shop, halfway hut has a fantastic menu and the new owner (can't remember the ladies name) was extremely nice. Course was in good condition.
Now for the bad.
This course, and I hope my friend who is a member doesn't read this, is as boring as you could imagine. With the exception of perhaps a couple of holes, you would be hard put to identify any of them apart. Almost a case of 18 flags in a field. Back and forth, over and over, holes stacked parallel to one another. I've only been playing a couple of years so I still have the bug, but honestly I was bored to death by hole 12. At one point we thought we were teeing off on the 16th but noticed we were on the 4th, so we walked to the 16th and it's like we hadn't moved anywhere at all! One are of the course is actually dangerous. There's a par 3 with a ravine before the green and the tee box to another hole located the far side of the green. That hole almost shoots back directly towards the tee box of the par 3. There's a huge notice instructing players that ONE of them must inspect the ravine before teeing off. It's all a bit clumsy and laboured for my liking.
But equal to the unimaginative nature of the course is the unimaginable rudeness/stuckup-ness of the members we encountered. Throughout the front 9 there was nobody behind us at all. We ordered food at the halfway hut - 5 sandwiches and 4 coffees. Given there is no facility to pre-order food from the 9th tee box, unlike most other golf clubs, it took perhaps 10 minutes to prepare and consume. Out of the blue a fourball of snooty pensioners (two couples) turned up and started questioning if we'd just started our round. Made me feel as welcome as a trump in a spacesuit. Then were the suggestions that we should have been monitoring them as they were behind us and how a competition would be held up because of us, which it wouldn't. When advised we had been monitoring the situation and had seen nobody behind us, they suggested we hadn't been monitoring it well enough!! Well, had they seen us throughout the front 9 they would hardly have been surprised to find us at the halfway hut. Probably the most unpleasant snobs I've ever encountered. They were playing 2 balls between 4 players so I'm not surprised they eventually caught us up. However, we paid our round fees, it was a sunny day and to that point we were having a reasonably good time.
The only other members who spoke to us were almost as snooty - 'white tees on the weekend boys'. FFS, we're just visitors sampling the course, not playing the Masters.
The back 9 was a blur. I'd par'd the 7th, 8th and 9th but then my concentration went with the conflict at the halfway hut. Another of our team was having a bad round and it made matters worse. Scandalous.

its a good course but very wet in the winter i am a junior member but juniors get little respect from adults the pros are really good

This course had been recommended to us and we were disappointed with it. We turned up hungry at 8am on a Thursday morning and there was no breakfast available - except for the Pro Shop, nothing was open - apparently this is normal at this course. The course itself was uninspiring, with seemingly endless par fours without a break (the first six holes are all par fours) and the greens were not good - I don't know if the grass was too long but, whatever the problem, it was impossible to get the ball rolling properly. Lunch was quite good and the guys in the Pro Shop were very friendly but we won't be rushing back. As you might gather, we didn't score well and, of course, that always clouds one's judgement!

OK if you are an adult. Juniors are not treated with any respect and you feel as though you have entered a restricted area without permission. The pro's are very nice and helpful and give very good lessons. Course nice in the summer but very boggy in the winter. The 11th is very good fun because of its difficulty.

Nice easy walking course, 8, 9 , 10 & 11 particually testing.
Great pro shop & best teaching pro's in the county IMHO
Clay based so VERY muddy in winter
Gaz

I grew up on this course and have many fond memories of it. There are some delightful holes but some extremely tough par 4s, especially on the back nine. The fairways are not the widest in the world but the rough is never severe. It's not long but it isn't easy by any means. Good greens.

all the holes on the outside of the course are worth playing, not quite so true of the other holes in the middle.muddy in the winter.