drawboy
Tour Winner
Imagine the directors of your club called you in and said "We are thinking of changing the course and cannot afford an architect so we want you to make some changes". What would you change and why?
Course improvements, your call
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Hendy
Tour Rookie
Make some holes on the course a little longer for example 1st/4th/9th/10th/12th/15th/16th/17th/18th
Add a bigger water hazard on the S.I one 6th hole.
Fairway buckers on the par 5's.
That would keep them busy for a few months anyways
lol
Add a bigger water hazard on the S.I one 6th hole.
Fairway buckers on the par 5's.
That would keep them busy for a few months anyways
lolMacster
Journeyman Pro
Nothing......
apart from replacing the sand in the Bunkers to something that you can get your club into,
and perhaps making our monstrous Par4 469yd 16th into a Par 5, by pushing the green back, diverting the stream around the front edge.
Other than that, I love playing it as much as i did when I joined 20yrs ago.
apart from replacing the sand in the Bunkers to something that you can get your club into,
and perhaps making our monstrous Par4 469yd 16th into a Par 5, by pushing the green back, diverting the stream around the front edge.
Other than that, I love playing it as much as i did when I joined 20yrs ago.
EaseNgrace
Q-School Graduate
I'd suggest new sand in the bunkers, or just getting rid of all the bloody stones. Some kind of irrigation for the fairways. Maybe also some strategic pruning of the trees and making the rough a bit more challenging in some areas, i.e reshaping a few landing areas to make the rough come into play a bit more.
SharkAttack
Q-School Graduate
The GREEN KEEPER. Course pretty much okay, green keeper pretty much way to lazy.
Shark
Shark
I would love to do it! 
Dig the green up at 4 and remodel,it is out of character with the rest,long and narrow with a rediculous hump on the right that serves no purpose.
New tiger tee on 6 to stretch the best hole on the course out to 565 yards,it would take a lot of earth moving to get it into an elevated position but if money was there it would make a great hole into an unbelievably great hole.
Remodel 8th green,IMO it needs turned 20 degrees clockwise.
New tiger tee on 14,again it would take a bit of earth shifting to get the elevation needed but would add 25 yards to the hole and would be a super hole.
New tiger tee at 15 only 10/15/20 yards back right of the medal tee,would be hitting more straighter into the par 3 green and would make it a fine hole.
Wouldn't change anything else,it would take the yardage up to around 6900 yrds but only for those playing off the tips.
Chances of me being asked to do anything there are as likely as Monty winning a Major.
Dig the green up at 4 and remodel,it is out of character with the rest,long and narrow with a rediculous hump on the right that serves no purpose.
New tiger tee on 6 to stretch the best hole on the course out to 565 yards,it would take a lot of earth moving to get it into an elevated position but if money was there it would make a great hole into an unbelievably great hole.
Remodel 8th green,IMO it needs turned 20 degrees clockwise.
New tiger tee on 14,again it would take a bit of earth shifting to get the elevation needed but would add 25 yards to the hole and would be a super hole.
New tiger tee at 15 only 10/15/20 yards back right of the medal tee,would be hitting more straighter into the par 3 green and would make it a fine hole.
Wouldn't change anything else,it would take the yardage up to around 6900 yrds but only for those playing off the tips.
Chances of me being asked to do anything there are as likely as Monty winning a Major.
Cover over the ditch on the 7th so you can actually hit a drive instead of having to lay up. Its already 398 yards but the ditch around 220 and a very narrow landing area means 95% of players have to lay up short and are faced with a shot of around 170 yards. Poorly designed hole.
Clear out the drainage ditches so water can run away to help with drainage. More bunkering shorter off the tee at 5 as the one bunker on the fairway is out of range of most players and so is obsolete unless you top the 2nd from the right hand rough.
Clear out the drainage ditches so water can run away to help with drainage. More bunkering shorter off the tee at 5 as the one bunker on the fairway is out of range of most players and so is obsolete unless you top the 2nd from the right hand rough.
Region3
Ryder Cup Winner
I thought the ditch on 18 was more annoying than the one on 7.
What's the point on a par 5? It just means you can't have a go at the green in 2 (unless you carry your drives about 270 iirc) and makes the water hazard almost obsolete when people are hitting wedges for approaches.
Lose the ditch, let players try to hit long irons or hybrids / woods to reach in 2 and pay for the work by fishing the balls out of the water every month or two.
When you do, can I have my ProV1 with orange dots on it that I hit in there from the bunker on the opposite side of the green
Losttheplot
Tour Rookie
Bunkers. More sand, less stones.
Fairways playable with no dead grass and not like chipping off concrete.
Tee boxes trim and less geese around with no geese poo to manoeuvre round everywhere.
To be honest... Just a tee time during the day when I ring up at 8am. That would do me and leave everything else.
That will be why I'm leaving in the next month or two.
Fairways playable with no dead grass and not like chipping off concrete.
Tee boxes trim and less geese around with no geese poo to manoeuvre round everywhere.
To be honest... Just a tee time during the day when I ring up at 8am. That would do me and leave everything else.
That will be why I'm leaving in the next month or two.
RowleyBaggie
Hacker
Install stocks in the car park for people who don't replace divots to be pelted with rotting veg - those who drop any sort of litter in the rough that can look like a ball when you are searching can also be put in them!!
I thought the ditch on 18 was more annoying than the one on 7.
What's the point on a par 5? It just means you can't have a go at the green in 2 (unless you carry your drives about 270 iirc) and makes the water hazard almost obsolete when people are hitting wedges for approaches.
Lose the ditch, let players try to hit long irons or hybrids / woods to reach in 2 and pay for the work by fishing the balls out of the water every month or two.
When you do, can I have my ProV1 with orange dots on it that I hit in there from the bunker on the opposite side of the green
I have to say you probably have a valid point but as my girlie swing never brings the ditch into play and I can't get to the green in two nayway I forgot about that. It would make sense as the pond front right would make it a better risk/reward hole
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
2 of our par 5's have an area of rough between 2 halves of the fairway. This is at about 250-270 yards. It's there to stop me going for the green in 2. It doesn't. It would just make it easier for me if we got rid of it!
Other than that I'd add a load of bunkers - we only have 5. Much of the land is owned by Hartwell House, a posh hotel, that have "graciously" let us build our course on their patch on the understanding that no bunkers are dug on it. The reason being they don't want their guests to look out over a load of sand when they're in the middle of the countryside! The fact you can't even see the house from the course - even in winter when the trees are bare is - irrelevent!
There's not much else we can do with the course really. You can get the driver out if you want on a lot of holes but its not always the best play.
Other than that I'd add a load of bunkers - we only have 5. Much of the land is owned by Hartwell House, a posh hotel, that have "graciously" let us build our course on their patch on the understanding that no bunkers are dug on it. The reason being they don't want their guests to look out over a load of sand when they're in the middle of the countryside! The fact you can't even see the house from the course - even in winter when the trees are bare is - irrelevent!
There's not much else we can do with the course really. You can get the driver out if you want on a lot of holes but its not always the best play.
