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[Deleted Member 1156]

What didn't you like about Bude GC?

I thought it was a lovely little course with a good bit of variety and the course both times I've played it has been in great nick.

And the honey serving the beers was an excellent 9/10

I've played Bude a few times. OK, it will never hold the Open Championship but I've always enjoyed playing it. Just a good fun holiday course. Certainly played much worse in my time.

 

[JCW]

What didn't you like about Bude GC?

I thought it was a lovely little course with a good bit of variety and the course both times I've played it has been in great nick.

And the honey serving the beers was an excellent 9/10

Too many blind shots , they had a hole in the corner down towards the inn , too many hackers over clubbed and hit the road that you now walk down to where the green was and tee off away from the inn , formby had a very pretty honey in the bar , she were that good we had a few beers after that we should not have .

 

[User20205]

Royal Iford Bridge
Wellow
Woodbridge Park (Wiltshire)

I don't enjoy a fair amount of others but these stand out for me. I know Therod won't be happy with me but hopefully we've gotten past this and he'll forgive me.

Can't argue with those mate. The greens at royal Iford were apparently pristine this year

Can I add Romsey & Hempstead forest in Kent ?
Some more will come to me in a min.

 

[richart]

its short, poorly laid out and was in no better condition than my local muni.

Am I not allowed to talk about another forumers club?

Sorry where did I say you are not allowed to talk about another forumers club. Out of interest where do you play ?

 

[CMAC]

a mountain track outside Bexhill (cant remember the name)- 6 hr round and saw not one soul, was almost kicking the bleedin' ball at the end to get finished

 

[LanDog]

I don't think I've ever full on hated a course before. Everyone has its merit somewhere (surely!)

In saying that I didn't enjoy Cookstown course, think that was more the occasion though, was a school match and it was lashing down all week long before the match, and the guy I was playing with was right weirdo

Since I've moved to England the only course I've played where ive been disappointed with was South Leeds, and that was only because it has so much potential as a course but it wasn't well maintained and it was more disappointingly sad because it has such potential in my eyes but been told by a few that they haven't the funds to satisfy the upkeep which is a real shame because on top of it all, everyone I've met at the course was really sound on.

*Feel bad slagging it off now

 

[Smiffy]

a mountain track outside Bexhill (cant remember the name)- 6 hr round and saw not one soul, was almost kicking the bleedin' ball at the end to get finished

I think that would have been Beauport Park just outside of Hastings

 

[Slab]

Played courses where either due to the course layout/condition or poor management/green-keeping have made certain holes a mare & would put them in my least favourite but I'd still play the course again

For me its not necessarily the course I'd rank as being 'bottom' but my experience on a given day considering the above points

Saline GC outside Dunfermline just because its all round one big hill
Cowdenbeath (Dora) when its really wet, it really can be a bog

but I'd even put the odd round at Ile aux Cerfs (Le Touessrok GC) for some poor design changes (although it has to be said I've also had some of my very best experiences on the same course and already looking forward to playing there again in a couple of weeks)

In hindsight I didn't enjoy the Eden at St Andrews as much as I should have but that doesn't mean it would be the same if I played there again (over zealous marshaling a contributor)

 

[Smiffy]

In hindsight I didn't enjoy the Eden at St Andrews as much as I should have but that doesn't mean it would be the same if I played there again (over zealous marshaling a contributor)

For that reason alone, I hated my visit to the Old Course. Some of us only get the chance to play there once in our lifetime, and our visit was completely ruined by a marshal herding us around at breakneck speed, even to the extent of raking bunkers for us so that we could just move on to play our next shot. This was mid March with hardly anyone else on the course. At no time during the round was I aware that anyone was behind us. I am not a slow player (as anyone who has ever played with me will testify) and am not a lover of fourball rounds that take over 4 hours in the middle of Summer, let alone on a cold, windswept March day in Scotland!
We didn't have a chance to take in the course, I can hardly remember any of the holes other than the 1st and the iconic 17th, and whilst I came away happy in the fact that I had actually played the place, I can't say I enjoyed it....... and on that basis I wouldn't rush back.
A shame that.

 

[delc]

I've played Bude a few times. OK, it will never hold the Open Championship but I've always enjoyed playing it. Just a good fun holiday course. Certainly played much worse in my time.

I like Bude as well. A bit old fashioned and ideosyncratic with some blind holes, but all the better for that!

 

[Slab]

For that reason alone, I hated my visit to the Old Course. Some of us only get the chance to play there once in our lifetime, and our visit was completely ruined by a marshal herding us around at breakneck speed, even to the extent of raking bunkers for us so that we could just move on to play our next shot. This was mid March with hardly anyone else on the course. At no time during the round was I aware that anyone was behind us. I am not a slow player (as anyone who has ever played with me will testify) and am not a lover of fourball rounds that take over 4 hours in the middle of Summer, let alone on a cold, windswept March day in Scotland!
We didn't have a chance to take in the course, I can hardly remember any of the holes other than the 1st and the iconic 17th, and whilst I came away happy in the fact that I had actually played the place, I can't say I enjoyed it....... and on that basis I wouldn't rush back.
A shame that.

Not too dissimilar to my Eden visit, marshal in his buggy really was herding us like cattle on the 2nd fairway (I think we had a lost ball on the first so were probably behind pace in his eyes, not that he bothered to ask) so we ended up doing mild jogging between shots and ruined the next run of holes to the point I have no memory of their layout or how I played them

 

[MikeH]

I don't think I've ever full on hated a course before. Everyone has its merit somewhere (surely!)

this would be my view - there's no such thing as a bad course, some are just better than others!
and as the dicussions here about Bude show what one golfers dislikes, another finds to their taste. It's the same in the top 100
surely hitting a ball around a field beats a day in the office?

 

[Hacker Khan]

I like Bude as well. A bit old fashioned and ideosyncratic with some blind holes, but all the better for that!

I'd agree. Played 36 holes there on holiday a couple of years ago, 1st 18 was 'an experience' as a lot of blind shots, 2nd 18 very enjoyable once you knew where you were going.

 

[Imurg]

this would be my view - there's no such thing as a bad course, some are just better than others!
and as the dicussions here about Bude show what one golfers dislikes, another finds to their taste. It's the same in the top 100
surely hitting a ball around a field beats a day in the office?

Ah..but i bet you've never played Ivinghoe....:fore::rofl:

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

A nine holer in Newgate street gladly now someone's back garden and Beadlow Manor, they should grow spuds there, wait a minute I think they probably do!😱

 

[Tongo]

Royal Iford Bridge
Wellow
Woodbridge Park (Wiltshire)

I don't enjoy a fair amount of others but these stand out for me. I know Therod won't be happy with me but hopefully we've gotten past this and he'll forgive me.

Chuckle! Me and my old man play there quite often! Admittedly its not the most testing of layouts.

 

[Tongo]

Can't argue with those mate. The greens at royal Iford were apparently pristine this year

Can I add Romsey & Hempstead forest in Kent ?
Some more will come to me in a min.

I've always enjoyed Romsey. Okay, its a shortish course but a good test.

 

[Foxholer]

this would be my view - there's no such thing as a bad course, some are just better than others!
and as the dicussions here about Bude show what one golfers dislikes, another finds to their taste. It's the same in the top 100
surely hitting a ball around a field beats a day in the office?

Same hear! :thup:

There are a couple I wouldn't ever be bothered to go back to, a couple more where I'd need to be convinced certain things had changed, but even 'poor Golf' beats 'no Golf' imo!

 

[chrisd]

There is a course not far from me that I often refer to as a goat track but I haven't played there in years, I wouldn't play there if I was offered a lift there in a gold limo but I couldn't, in fairness, say it's a course others may think ok, and that there aren't worse ones around the country

 

[User20205]

I've always enjoyed Romsey. Okay, its a shortish course but a good test.

It's a good club, really friendly etc, but the course has no variation IMO. When you've played one 350 par 4 through the tees the other 14 wear bit thin. That and both times I've played, once on March, once in sept the greens have been poor.