A few piccies of Crowborough Beacon

[Smiffy]

Haven't been able to work out how to post full size piccies but if you click on the small ones they should expand a bit! Beautiful March day, course is really beginning to "come back" and should look absolutely stunning in the next month or so. Last piccie shows the carry off the 16th tee (par 4 and one of my favourites) and the 4th pic is the par 3 6th hole, one of the best par 3's you'll play anywhere. 7th pic is the view from the back tee, 10th (par 5). Hope you like 'em.

 

[bobmac]

Who's the woofter in the tank top and red shirt?

Course looks a bit like Blackmoor to me

 

[Smiffy]

Course looks a bit like Blackmoor to me

Similar Bob, but a lot more elevation changes. I find Camberley "leggy" but Anthony (TXL) commented that he thought Crowborough was as bad, if not worse!

 

[TXL]

Course looks a bit like Blackmoor to me

Blackmoor is flat as a pancake compared to this place. Make sure you take oxygen if Smiffy invites you to play there

Nice pictures Rob :thup:

 

[BTatHome]

Nice pics of a great looking course. :thup:

 

[Aztecs27]

Blackmoor is flat as a pancake compared to this place. Make sure you take oxygen if Smiffy invites you to play there

Nice pictures Rob :thup:

Since my new course is on the side of a hill (which is slopey enough to have a dry ski slope built into it!), Crowborough and Camberley should be a breeze later this year!

Looks great Rob! Look forward to my invite :thup:

 

[richart]

Looks good Rob, can't wait to tackle those hills.

 

[ADB]

How many seniors has the climb to the 17th seen off Rob?

Course looks good, as always

 

[User20205]

cheers Smiffy. It's a cracking course, your pics brought back some memories when I played 36 holes there last summer. Where is pic 3 I can't place it?

 

[Oddsocks]

im the 4th or 5th pic there is a weird looking chap wearing a skin tight tanktop....... do you know him smiffy

nice course though.

 

[ADB]

cheers Smiffy. It's a cracking course, your pics brought back some memories when I played 36 holes there last summer. Where is pic 3 I can't place it?

That's the approach to the 4th (going left to right, top to bottom!)

 

[AuburnWarrior]

It looks a lovely course - a bit too long for you though..... :blah:

When's the forum meet booked for?

 

[Smiffy]

cheers Smiffy. It's a cracking course, your pics brought back some memories when I played 36 holes there last summer. Where is pic 3 I can't place it?

As Snaphookedwedge points out, that is the approach to the 4th, short par 4. Picture 2 is the view of the same hole taken from just in front of the yellow tee.
Although it's only short at 369 off the whites (all downhill too) it's a tough bugger sometimes and belies it's award of SI 17. When TXL, JustOne, Leftie and myself played there a few weeks ago, we only took one point off of it between us! Last two times out I've parred and birdied it. Tee shot has to be straight and if you really collar one you can be left with one of those tricky "half shots" were it's easy to ease off of it a little and end up in the right hand bunker, which can leave a tricky little shot across the green.

 

[Smiffy]

It looks a lovely course - a bit too long for you though..... :blah:

When's the forum meet booked for?

I'd love to hold a forum meet there. I'll have to look into the costs involved and if enough people are interested I could look at holding something there later in the year????

 

[User20205]

As Snaphookedwedge points out, that is the approach to the 4th, short par 4. Picture 2 is the view of the same hole taken from just in front of the yellow tee.
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that's why I didn't recognise it. I was in the heather on the left both rounds, the view of the fairway threw me !!

You don't really get a sense of the elevation change with the pics either

 

[richart]

You don't really get a sense of the elevation change with the pics either

You mean it is bloody hilly ?:mmm:

 

[Smiffy]

You mean it is bloody hilly ?:mmm:

Hehehehe.
You're going down sucker

 

[richart]

Hehehehe.
You're going down sucker

Youth will prevail.:ears:

 

[User20205]

Youth will prevail.:ears:

it's ok, the 4th is downhill, it's the 5th you want to worry about

 

[richart]

it's ok, the 4th is downhill, it's the 5th you want to worry about

Can't be as bad as the 18th at Stoneham Nick. Now that is a hill.