Car Parks

[JV24601]

All visitors are " members for the day ", and so have insurance via the club if they hit a car. So we can all relax on the 18th tee - unless of course your own car is in the line up .

Luckily for me I walk to to the course....

Very lucky for you Ian - to have such a wonderful course to play as your local.
Love the place!

 

[UlyssesSky]

The car park at my home course is just to the right of the first tee and stretches along the hole for about 150m. There is a fence, but it's only about 15m to 20m high, so a nice high ermmm... "cut" can easily reach the car park.

The prevailing wind is also towards the first tee and slightly off the left, which means that in windy conditions the balls get blown towards the cars.


Which is exactly what happened to me yesterday. Tried to start the ball right into the wind (50km/h) towards the left edge of the fairway. Due to the wind and some cut spin, the ball started drifting towards the right quickly, until it got turned around almost 180* and entered the (half empty) car park from the opposite side...
Nothing happened, but I decided to take my 4i for my second tee shot and will do that whenever I play that hole in strong winds, just to be safe...

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Our car park is to the right of the 18th green and regularly has balls landing in it. In the summer of 2014 in a midweek social, one guy was hit on the thigh by a wayward tee shot from a group in front. That same group teed it up on the last and another of them fired one into the car park straight into the van of the guy who was hit on the tee earlier.

 

[Roland]

I got from a round and found a golf ball sized impact in the windscreen of my car 15 years ago at the Nottinghamshire, went to the pro shop but nobody had owned up, fortunately it was a company car so didn't make a fuss and just got the windscreen replaced.

 

[Jacko_G]

Some years ago I was playing at my old club in NI, Dungannon ("home of Darren Clarke") and the 7th hole runs right up to the clubhouse with a corner of the car park overlooking the green. I hit a pitch which caught the wind (that's my story) and was heading for the carpark. As the ball headed inevitably towards the windscreen of an Audi, I said to my playing partner "Gosh (paraphrased), I wonder who owns that car?". "I do", he answered, as the ball hit the wiper blade. Off popped the wind deflector and the ball bounced back in play. "I suppose I shouldn't park it there, really", he said later.

I also played with a guy once who hit a ball into the carpark at a course where I was a visitor and smashed a back window. "I'd better leave a note", he said. Later in the bar, as I was leaving I heard a guy complain about his smashed back windscreen. I told him I was playing with the guy that did it, and asked if he got the note. "Yeah, I did" he said "It just said 'Sorry, mate', no name or address".

Cool story.

 

[Crow]

I was playing with my brother in law and his son a few years ago at a course in Essex.

On what I think was the tenth hole, running alongside the car park although separated by a hedge, nephew hits a shocking duck hook off the tee, straight over the hedge and there's a muffled sound of breaking glass.

Brother in law goes to investigate and comes back a few minutes later looking a little sheepish and asks, "what's your registration number?" The ball had only gone through the back window of my car.....

 

[guest100718]

I'd be like the brave sir Robin.

 

[drdel]

A golfer's Tee shot took out the rear light on my Range Rover, parked in my drive across a public road from the course. He walked straight on and dropped a new ball. When I asked him what he was going to do about the damage - I got several Anglo Saxon phrases in return :sbox:

 

[Beel77]

Take it that it was the 9th? Must have been a wild second shot

That's the members only car park these days and I've heard a few "thunks" over the years

Yeah I was slap bang in the middle and just pulled it left with draw. I was terrified!

 

[Beel77]

On a lighter note, how was Slaley? I'm assuming it would be a bit boggy but I am happy to be proved wrong as you tend to get good deals pre-April.

The greens were spot on! Very boggy but I enjoyed being out there! Can't wait to get back up there once the weather is better.