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• Private celebrations such as weddings, christenings and birthdays - The Hooton suite overlooks the 18th green of the golf course and includes a fully licensed bar and dance floor
• Tthe Hooton Ladies are based at Ellesmere Port Golf Club and have their own club room (See Kath Bottoms' review underneath)

Course
Reviews

A fantastic course for experienced golfers and novices alike. The first is a long par 4 and lets you know exactly what you are in for. Whilst not being the most ascetically pleasing course each hole is challenging. There are two very short par fours, although they remain quite hard holes, par should be achieved with a straight drive off the tee. Indeed the short par 4 13th is driveable but the drive is not for the faint hearted!!
The final thing to say on this well maintained municipal is that the green keepers are first rate, giving even and true greens. Oh, I cannot stress the importance of keeping your tee shots straight. It's not that the fairways aren't wide, it's the rough which is so long. All in all a great course which will challenge the best of you, especially the final four holes which are as tough as I have played anywhere. Good luck.
Adrian McCabe

We booked a time at this municipal club with somewhat unfounded reservations, but from the time we tee'd off at the first hole to the beautiful finishing stretch of the eighteenth fairway we became more and more enchanted. Immaculate greens, challenging sand bunkers and tricky fairway landscaping made this a really enjoyable round of golf. If you're in the area you'd be crazy to miss out on this top quality (not to mention inexpensive) course. Have a drink in the bar after if you wish.
Erik

This is probably the best value course in the Cheshire & Merseyside area. It only currently costs £10.50 a round and the holes are well-maintained, varied and fun to play. However, the course sometimes does get waterlogged on occasions and it's not unusually for a couple of temporary greens to be in operation. Despite this, I thoroughly recommend this course to all local golfers.
Darren June 5, 2005

This course is amazing from the long par 4 at the beginning to the long par 5 at the end the greens are in amazing condition and the fairways are also good and to play it is very cheap for a top class course.
Cam September 26, 2005

A challenging course but the state of the course is bad. The greens are some of the worst that I have seen. Also the course suffers from quite a lot of vandalism.
Colin April 14, 2006

Let's start with the good.
This is a reasonably sized course with some challenging holes. The course is designed in to a fairly tight geographical area, but due to an abundance of trees on the course, somehow manages to nicely route you through some pleasant woodland. The course has a number of challenging holes, with the par threes all needing a well struck ball off the tee to have any chance of par. There are some well laid out par four and five holes, which will provide a test for even scratch golfers, yet allow higher handicappers the chance of par, providing they stay on the fairway.
Now the bad. On arriving at the course, you drive through to the car park, which is a bit of a free for all. You need to be careful where you park, as damage to your car by other drivers due to the car park 'layout' or wilful damage by the hordes of kids who roam the course, is a strong possibility. Amenities in the clubhouse are limited and we were unable to get a pre round coffee on a Sunday morning. (In fact we were asked to leave the bar area by a rather unpleasant old lady and stand outside as they were 'closed'...bizarre..!). The pro-shop is basic and the only hot rereshments that were available anywhere on the course where at the side of the 8th green in a burger van. The ugly was the state of the course itself. At times, you are surrounded by golfers playing other holes and the course can get quite congested in some areas, but the state of the greens, fairways, bunkers and rough was the true measure of how this course is run. No bunker had a rake, and few had sand. The rest had a mixture of volcanic ash and potting compost, or so it seemed. The fairway definition was dire, possibly because the cut of the fairways seemed to depend on wherever the greenkeeper had driven the mower. Some fairways were akin to the Somme and many of the greens had been poorly kept. In summary, this could be a really nice course, but it appears to suffer from a distinct lack of underfunding. Better course management, a few clubhouse improvements (including customer care courses for staff!!) and drastically improved green keeping could see this course develop into one of the finest municipals in the North West. Whether the council will bother, or just treat it as a low maintenance cash cow is anyones guess. Beware, every cow runs dry if it's not fed & watered.
The Hacker July 15, 2007

The course is fantastic value for money at £12 per round. The course is a good challenge and scored a credible 90 with a birdie on the par 5 18th. The course is well looked afer with an extremely challenging green on the 15th and challenging tee off on 16th. EXCELLENT all round.
Boobsy May 13, 2009

This  course has hosted the Wirral and Merseyside Championships for the past two years. The Ladies in 2008 and the Mens in 2009. All clubs commended the condition of the greens fairways etc. Both competitions were a resounding sucess. The standard of the course would have been the envy of any private club.  The green staff produce and maintain the course to a high standard throughout the season and endeavour to do as much throughout the winter, (although the 15th is a challenge) to provide ongoing improvement year on year to the course.  Improvements have been made by  Cadsart to the course paths, the car park & general clubhouse. Ellesmere Port is a really good course with a few challenging holes, the 2nd 10th and 17th particularly, when played well give you the feeling of why we play golf. Ellesmere Port is great value and well worth a visit. Groups are catered for and snacks and meals  are availble. Me and my fellow golfers play regularly and love the course.
Chatty Kathy February 23, 2010

WE WOULD LOVE NEW MEMBERS (We play Sundays)
Hooton Ladies GC is a small and friendly club. We play our friendly rounds most Wenesdays and Fridays, and play our Competitions on Sundays (1st Tee 10am). If you would like to come along and play a few holes or a round of golf and we can introduce ourselves, please do. We would love to have new members. The one off joining fee is £50 and annual subscription is £60.
(We currently have a limited offer though on the joining fee of just £25.)
For further details or queries please contact me on 0151 356 0268.
Kath Bottoms Sec. on behalf of: Hooton Ladies Golf Club March 8, 2010