1. Scarlett | Rated | 12 May 2012 | Add A Review

A new ’links-style’ resort course on Sydney’s outskirts which is trying to combine regular membership whilst chasing the corporate day dollar. Given that there are plenty of other courses around Sydney doing the same thing I’m not really sure how this course is going to make enough money to survive. Fortunately for the golfer, there isn’t housing around the course like most new courses. It is both cheaper and in better condition than Riverside Oaks which I played a week before this course – but – that is probably due to how new the course is. In a couple of years it will probably have lost that edge, or if the level of maintenance drops off. Anyway, get out and play it now. In terms of design it was fine but nothing really jumps out at me as I think back about the course.
Being built on the Nepean/Hawkesbury floodplain there is plenty of swampy wetlands throughout the course and therefore water in play in multiple areas on almost every hole if you’re not careful or thinking about where you hit the ball. Interesting layout, quality conditions (except for heavily pitch-marked greens) and a cheap enough weekday rate.

2. KJ2 | Rated | 01 Feb 2012 | Add A Review

This is a great young links course. Terrific practice facilities – would go a long way to find better. Course plays differently each time I play it due to the wind. I’m off 10 and I always feel a sense of accomplishment when I go around in my handicap there. Great meals at club house and has a relaxed outdoor eating area with views across the course. The times I have played there in summer I have found it to be pleasant in the respect that there usually is a breeze – I do use an umbrella. I joined recently and look forward to the challenges of the course.

3. midirons | Rated | 29 Jan 2012 | Add A Review

Lynwood Country Club…

Pros:
- Green Fees
- Wide Driving Fairways
- Best holes are the slightly elevated Par3 3rd…(hazards all round) and blind tee shot par 4 4th…(Cut the corner to get closer to the green)
- Clubhouse is good for a meal

Cons:
- Boring, no undulating fairways, course is just flat.
- Wet, course is terrible at draining water away after rain.
- Hot, minimum shade on course as there are only a few trees around.
- Direction of holes, need scorecard map or your stuffed.
- Miles away from Sydney.

4. CHCCMember | Rated | 10 Jan 2012 | Add A Review

First outing to Lynwood early 2012 and I was impressed by the approachability of this course, played with a single figure and a 25 marker, and all of us found something to enjoy. Greens quite true, easy driving, trouble only if you are far offline. This course has something for all levels of golf, not too hard to score, but still difficult enough to challenge the single figure marker.

Give it a go

PROS

• greens
• value
• easy driving holes

Cons

• HOT, man it was hot
• its a looong way out of sydney
• course maps not reflective of hole
• no shade

5. Rodent | Rated | 09 Nov 2011 | Add A Review

I really like Lynwood and happily drive 50 minutes to play there. I played the open comp yesterday for $28 which is good value for a quality course.
Greens are pure. Quicker than average but not ridiculous. I play off 9 and struggle to play to it at Lynwood but I enjoy the challenge. Hit it straight or else be prepared to lose a few balls to the numerous water hazards.

6. Mike02 | Rated | 19 Sep 2011 | Add A Review

I can’t understand some of the low scores here. This is truly a fantastic course with some fantastic facilities. Every hole is challenging, frustrating and engaging. While some fairways seem easy, if you don’t know the course, it is easy to let you ball roll into the water. I’ll be coming back!

7. q-tip | Rated | 20 Aug 2011 | Add A Review

Measures 6408m Par 72 off the black tees (6271m-blue tees, 6026m-white tees and 5264m-red ladies) with four par 3s ranging from 133-199m, ten par 4s ranging from 318-429m and four par 5s ranging from 506-539m.

The designers should have looked up the definition of two golf course terms: links course and a links-style course. Obviously Lynwood can’t be a traditional links course as it is 60km from the coast in Pitt Town, near Windsor, but it still falls short in its links-STYLE course it has tried so hard to emulate. The cheap tackiness and lack of traditional links can be summed up by the comical medium-sized tree 180m off the 18th tee which happens to be the Lynwood’s index 1 hole.

Course conditioning is good as you’d expect for a course which has only been open for less than a few years. Not sure if I agree with the over-rated 4-star reviews…and nowhere near 5-star which on this website is "golf at its absolute best" with 1-star being "basic golf".

Course has up to 50m wide couch fairways with fairway-length couch grass rough not posing any challenges to hit out off. The bent grass greens are smooth, but not overly quick. The course has 51 bunkers that looks intimidating but, you’ll see throughout your round, are not well positioned. However, the couch teebeds are flat and a pleasure to play off.

Besides a handful of holes, the water hazards generally don’t come into play as the extremely wide fairways together with no trees allow you to take a line away from water without affecting your ability to score on the hole…and because of this I feel accuracy is not paramount at Lynwood.

Highlights include: the 403m straight 5th (index 2) with a fairway bunker 200-260m from the tee on the left with red staked water hazard 240m to clear off the tee on the right rough to a green guarded by a bunker short right with more red stakes left and right of the green; the 390m straight 7th (index 7) with red stakes along the right from T to green, with a hidden fairway bunker 230-240m off the tee in the middle – the only bunker I found on the entire course! – with 2 bunkers also guarding the green; followed by the best par 3 on the course, the 199m 8th (index 4) with water hazard beginning 10m short left and along the entire left bank of the green guarded by a large deep right bunker; the 507m 9th (index 6) with water down the right from T to green with a fairway bunker on the left off the T to avoid and another bunker 100m short left coming into play on your 2nd shot with the green guarded by water 5m short of the green front edge and a bunker on the left.

The strategic 3-shot par 5s are challenging all being over 500m off the back tees, whilst the back nine par 4s are generally weak.
I agree with others in that the facilities including the full-length couch grass practice range, chipping greens with bunkers and its huge putting green are great, but that alone doesn’t make Lynwood a course good enough to a host major state tournament, let alone one on the national calendar.

Played here 17/07/2011 for the first time with $40 social weekend fees and I only found one of its 51 bunkers on the course playing here for the first time which is a poor reflection of the course design…and yes we played off the back plates…

If in the Hawkesbury area I strongly recommend to drop by to use their practice facilities for small fee. Proshop staff are quite helpful and friendly. Not a bad public course but definately not the best in Greater western Sydney.

8. castroaqua | Rated | 02 Aug 2011 | Add A Review

Great course with hardly anyone playing at any one time. You wont feel rushed on the shot due to no overcrowding of held up by players in front. The condition of the course is amazing and the greens are smooth sailing.

Great Sydney course, good value, good clubhouse and great overall experience!

PROS

• Great condition
• Not overcrowded
• Halfway BBQ facilities
• Great value

9. avernel | Rated | 01 Jul 2011 | Add A Review

Great course but the players I saw lack etiquette. Quite a few groups of 5 players, no strict dress regulation. A group in front of me were not dressed in golf attire but laborers clothes and with me being a single player, they would not let me pass, even though this was a mid-week round. On the final hole, mind you, on the 2nd 9 I was kept waiting on every hole, I watched them hit 3-4 balls each. This was also noticed by a few other players on the front 9 which impressed no one. Come on Lynwood, I am sure you can do better than this.

10. freddiecouples | Rated | 27 Apr 2011 | Add A Review

One of the best in the west, do yourself a favour and have a hit at the best Links Course in Sydney. Immaculate course…..

11. goffer | Rated | 16 Apr 2011 | Add A Review

very nice golf course, study the hazards, hard for the first time you play, if you cant see behind something expect a hazard but a truly good golf course awesome to play in winter on a sunny day. only thing the club house is a flop of a design i know seems silly but they could have done so much more with it looks like a soccer social club building. must play course.

12. JP_KING_7 | Rated | 26 Feb 2011 | Add A Review

Lynwwod is a course in great condition an presents all level of golfer with an extremely challenging test, just to play to your handicap. It is an extremely long course, you will need all aspects of your game ’ón song’if you want to score well here.
The course is maintained to an oustanding level but it is a LONG walk, you will feel it in your legs the following day, a cart is definitely the go at Lynwood. There are some issues with the hazards, there are lots of them an you often can’t tell where they are, making it really frustrating to play unill you have played here numerous times. The green, fairways and tees and in emaculat shape, there are however areas of rough where there isn’t as much grass, mking it tough to hit longer clubs such as woods and hybrids.
Practcie facilities here are GREAT, chipping and putting greens of huge size and a great driving range of over 280m and 100m wide, Lynwood could soon be hosting a major tournament on the Australian calender. The Pro shop is very small, there aren’t many clubs but plenty of balls, washed and new.
Lynwod is definitely worth a visit, public rates are good at just $16 for 18 holes, you wll enoy a thoroughly enjobale if not tough day.

13. thechopper | Rated | 14 Feb 2011 | Add A Review

Do yourself a favour and get out west and play this course.

I have played most courses in Sydney and this rates with most.

Almost every hole has a hazard and bunkers adjacent to the fairway, really makes you think about what and how to play off the tee.The only weak hole is the par 3, 3rd, but it has 2 bunkers around it, a creek at the back and a sloping green….

Best hole is the Par 5 9th, which has a hazard all the way down the right side and directly in front, oh yeah bunkers down the left as well..

Course was in very good condition, bearing in mind its only 18 months old

14. Crewy203 | Rated | 15 Jan 2011 | Add A Review

Played for the first time 14/1/11 and the course was in great shape with the farways lush and greens will covered. A literal army of greenkeepers were out working on the course and they all stood aside to let players go through. There was some rough patches well off the fairways but that is to be expected. The course is fairly open with minimal trees but dont be fooled as there is plenty of water and bunkers to catch stray shots. Accuracy off the tee can be a premium so you should probably bring a couple of extra balls to replace those captured by the many water holes and ponds that litter the course. I played the first nine with a member and found that fairway bunkers were more in play off the member markers than off the social tees where you could carry these. This is a thinking course as you need to be aware of the placement of your shot, its not just a case of walk to the tee and hit it as far as you can although the 18th a par 4 at 429m with an elevated green might be an exception. This is a very nice course to play and I imagine with a bit of wind would be even more challenging, I will be back

15. GPT | Rated | 25 Apr 2010 | Add A Review

Played here on Friday 23rd April.Very open , good for those that are a bit wayward. Nice fairways and greens and a good mix of holes. Will be stinking hot in summer.
Very enjoyable and will play again. Shows how overpriced Riverside Oaks is.

16. BLOKE67 | Rated | 11 Apr 2010 | Add A Review

go play a very good layout pure bent greens in great nick a credit to superintendent tees & fairways great to play off very friendly members & all the staff in pro shop & clubhouse where great well worth a visit

17. BIGUS | Rated | 04 Apr 2010 | Add A Review

Havenow played there 3 times. The last time was after a lot of rain. With water filling most of the hazards, it certainly made the tee shot a lot more intimidating. I like 17 of the 18 holes, but think the par 3 8th is a little unfair with that huge hazard.
Can’t understand why anyone would actually drive 15 minutes past this course to go to Riverside Oaks.

18. wormie | Rated | 23 Mar 2010 | Add A Review

Has potential but all in all I found it a pretty uninspiring and frustrating course to play, particularly the first time. Each hole has a map at the start but for some reason not all of the hazards are outlined properly, as such it’s easy to hit to an unsighted and unmarked hazard (very frustrating). Greens were good but inconsistent, with some very firm and some quite soft. It’s also a very very long walk with long distances between holes. Anywhere off the fairway is devoid of grass, rock hard and full of holes so beware broken ankles. Will cost a fortune to maintain and I doubt they’ll be able to maintain it off existing member fees once the pot of gold runs out so beware.

PROS

• Lovely couch fairways
• Greens roll true

Cons

• Very poorly marked
• Inconsistent greens
• Not a lot of variety
• Stinking hot in summer
• Very very long walk

19. Danieljc | Rated | 20 Mar 2010 | Add A Review

Nice course Fairways were in pretty good nick. Fairways and greens are all couch. Greens were nice but people need to learn how to repair pitch marks. Good Value for $25 for a monday and hardly anyone on the course. Will be back again