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4-5 times a week in summer (sometimes more). Never in the winter.

My own course was like that but recovered very quickly in the last month or so.

Maidenhead GC wanted to buy Winter Hill when John Lewis decided to sell, would have meant the course would have closed whilst changes were made and all existing member kicked out. However JL ended selling it to GetGolfing (apparently for less than Maidenhead offered) who kept the course open and...

The site has been sold to Warners and they are just about to start building an entertainment complex. How this affects the golfing side, I have no idea.

Ours is open to all but max handicap is capped at 28.

I sort of have to play Theale once a year, it's one of our senior inter club matches. I think it's been improved over the years, certainly drainage work has been done. My low bar course makes Theale look like a decent track, Thames Ditton and Esher. Now that was bad, for so many reasons.

Better than Theale in my opinion, but not by much...

Drayton Park near Abingdon? Played a few times, pretty flat parkland course from memory. Lots of electric pylons. Pretty sure it has a driving range etc. There is one hole where you have to cross the corner of a farmers field.

Every device I have used definitely uses the straight-line distance to the hole. The 7th at Puttenham is a good example, the card says hole is 450+ yards, watch says 370 or so.

There is a hole at Leatherhead that says drivers are not to be used, the hole is bordered by expensive houses favoured by premiership footballers I was told. They shortened the last hole at Torquay from a par 4 to a par3 to stop balls going into gardens.

Normally at this time of year it is borderline unplayable (last year the fairways couldn't be cut until the middle of May). However due to the dry weather it is playing well and bodes well for the reset of the summer.

Happy using my Apple Watch for golf distances, I use the Tag Heuer app.

I hadn't used my CT6 for 4 months or so. Because I use the compact travel bag I reverse the wheels. When I played my first round a few weeks ago both wheels were stuck fast. Managed to get one off eventually but the other refused to budge. I pushed the trolley to the clubhouse to see if they...

From the back of my garden, about 75 yards. 2 minute drive to the clubhouse though.

Does anyone else suffer from hand spasms after a round of golf? After my first round in about 4 months today both my thumbs spasmed really badly for a couple of hours.