I wasn’t impressed by the layout and feel Champagne Sports is overrated on my experience. No doubt there are some fabulous holes (both nines open and close with great holes), however others I found lacking. Perhaps the routing could have been better. We were often going back and forth along the same line. What did leave a sour note — we teed off at 7.30 on a Tuesday — was that the greens were uncut (and subsequently full of dew) and bunkers unraked during our round. There is no excuse for not cutting the greens. I’d heard rave reviews about the conditioning but for me this was not the case. The fairways were not the purest of kikuyu. This is a championship course and it was testing. However, branches need to be trimmed back on tee shots as I had to hit low shots to avoid them. I’d like another round to change my perception.
