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Tylney Park The Rotherwick Course
is located near Hook in Hampshire and sits adjacent to
Tylney Hall. The drive up and into the course takes you
past some splendid Oak and Fir trees which have obviously
been standing there for a very long time and my
anticipation for the same on the course was building up.
As you reach the car park you are confronted by a shabby
old school hut and you are left wondering were the club
house is but you are looking at it. Tylney do have
planning permission to build a new clubhouse in 2007 they
also have plans for another nine holes. Having said that
there is a really warm feeling in the clubhouse and staff
and members were very friendly towards us and facilities
were a little shabby but acceptable. The first five holes
are located on the opposite side of the road and the
course. The course starts with a dogleg par five we played
off the yellow tees on the day and it measure only 489
yards with a straight shot tight to the left hand side are
group found our second shots hitting the green. The next
three holes are par fours and each of them doglegs with
the occasional trap to collect the stray shots from centre
of the fairway, the fourth is quite short at 323 yards
with a raised green. The last hole on the side of the road
is a par three just over 200 hundred yards to a tiered
green that feeds in from the left side I really enjoyed
this hole as I managed to birdie it. The sixth takes you
down the valley and doesn’t look to hard until you find
your tee shot sat behind a large oak blocking out the
route to the green, which is perched on the side of a
small hill. The seventh is a nice driving hole protected
by trees either side and a bunker on the left forcing you
to play to the right side of the fairway. This is followed
by a short par three and then a par five that runs down
hill and the doglegs at the bottom to the right. The back
nine starts with a par four which is fairly long and your
second shot is played over rough to a blind green if you
find yourself on the left side of the fairway. The
eleventh is a fairly easy par five although the green will
test you putting this is followed by a lovely par four
although they had been working on the drainage through the
fairway just before the green. The thirteen must be the
courses signature hole it’s the kind of hole you would
see in a magazine article all you can see is water and
bunkers. It was a joy to play it really makes you think
about the way you come into the green and your club
selection and from the tee.
- The fourteenth par five is a long slog especially if you
have the wind in your face although I didn’t think it
rated stroke index one. This is followed by two par fours
and then you find yourself at the seventh which is a
lovely par three only around 150 yards but is sat on the
hill in front of you the green also has a large tier in it
so any extra spin on the ball see you running of the face
of the hole into the waiting bunker. The eighteenth takes
you back to the clubhouse which is the only disappointing
aspect of this very nice course I have to say even though
the course is relatively young and is in desperate need of
a purpose built clubhouse I really enjoyed playing it.
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