Mount Ellen Golf Club

Returned to this course after last year and i am disappointed they have not moved forward if anything they have moved back. It was during school holidays but place was full of kids looking for golf balls.

No additional facilities either practice or lockers and again toilets not fully stocked.

The course was not playing great and the greens were also not anywhere near what they were the year before.

I believe this course is struggling and needs members fast but at the price against facilities they are going the wrong way.

Real shame for this course bar service and food is getting better shame about the rest of the course. I hope to visit again before the end of the year.

A really enjoyable course with excellent tee boxes, great bunkers, and beautiful greens, some great holes particularly on the closing 5 holes, Clubhouse facilities are excellent really friendly memebers, would highly recommend this course to anyone

Hi,

I have played this course and i do not know about the green fees they do sound very expensive for a small course with the locker facilities etc and no practice facilities, buggy chargers etc but i do know about the course.

The course is superb. Great condition and some difficult bunkers.

I loved this wee course and will try and play it a few times this year with the view to joining. If the orices are not as reported.

A couple of wee things i was not keen on was the youths drinking at Finlays rest on the bench. I was glad to get away and going by the empty green bottles i would say this is not a one off.

At the 10th in full view of the club house there were other people looking for golf balls. My ball went in the burn and when i went to look for it was told it was not there so i never looked anymore it is only a golf ball. This is in view of the clubhouse with binoculars albeit one set of the binoculars is broken.

Apart from the riff raff on the course who are not members this is a great wee course.

Nice wee course well looked after needs less spent on trees and clubhouse and more on facilities. New trees planted on the course when i was there when the course really needs the money spent on practice facilities and perhaps creating a par 5. Apart from that the course was playing really well.

Tea and rolls after were superb and very welcoming from the chef and staff.

I played this course last September and found it a very nice course albeit small and not challenging for your second shot the course did have good greens and protected greens. Sadly they amount of focus that is on how good the greens are appears to have taken the focus of the people running the club from the reality of the overall club. The greens were not the greatest I have played but were very good.

The clubhouse is new and looks the part but is very much lacking ideas when it was built.

Facilities within the clubhouse were not stocked up and although a great price for visitors the member I was with was unhappy. This course is the most expensive in the area and is nowhere near this level. It is more expensive than any club in the area at £630 and the money must be getting poorly spent as it is not visible on the course or practice facilities.

There are no practice facilities. Hard to believe I know but there is none in a new build and an expensive course.

After speaking with the member and meeting other members there is an old style golf club atmosphere that exists but sadly the reality is it is false class and the real class is not reality. I believe they want to be know as an elite golf club instead of pitching up as what they are a good quality private course around the price range of Easter Moffat or Dullater. If the members could focus on what they have and build on it this would be a great course but for my visit I was disappointed as I expected a new build to have had much more and for the member’s price be better priced. The members do not have lockers for all members including my friend and it is additional £20 on top of the membership.

The fact the new build was paid for from selling of assets and access of land rights for a new pipeline I would have expected members to have got a better deal. I was considering joining this course but would not consider at the 4 star prices against 1 star facilities and management of facilities and the 3 star courses.

My overall view great potential and a nice wee course but not yet ready.

I played the course a number of times last year and this year it is very much the same. Let me first say it is a great wee course and it is wee no par 5's at all and bunkers appear to be the claim to fame even though some are short of sand.
In all my times plaing golf courses i have never seen so many green keepers and believe me i don't mean that is a good point. There is the same amout of green keepers as on a ;larger course just they do not have any golf etiquette and get in the road. I know they have a job to do but changing holes does not need to be done with a tractor and each green keeper appear to have their own tractor buzzing around.
The pro appears to have learnt his social skills from the school of Colin Montgomerie but apart from that it was as i said a great wee course with pleasent surroundings.
A big disappointment for me is the green fees cost. This is a new club house with large investment, there is a nice club house and changing facilities but nothing spectacular. There is no air hose for blowing off dirt from shoes, no outside tap for the same and more importantly no driving area, practice green or even practice nets a thing that every club including municipal courses have. Considering this is a new build it has seriously lacked imagination although in this current credit crunch it has used the same amount of imagination in reducing it prices.
A lot needs to be done but this course is capable of being a great club if some imagination and issues with greenkeepers are put in order.

Played mid October.
A short course with some mature trees and lots of sand, however not many stand-out holes and no par 5s. I would have rated it lower were it not for the fact that the course was in fabulous condition. Greens, tees and fairways were pretty much perfect.
I wasn't hugely impressed that the pro made me pay full green fees even though I was playing a one-ball late on a Friday and only 3 hours from getting dark. I managed to finish the round (could just see the hole on the last) The 4-ball in front of me did not wave me through, which I also thought was poor form.
All in all a mixed experience.