Course recommendations in and around Woodbridge/Ipswich

Oh...I forgot Rushmere..... its not a bad course but its is laid out on Common Land.... you do often get lots of dog walkers and the resulting dog mess, local scrotes have been known to abscond with balls and flagstick and in the summer its not unknown to find someone having a picnic in the fairway!!!
 
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I quite liked Hintlesham and also Woodbridge both of which should be within your price. If Ufford Park is ok but does look a little rough around the edges at the best of times. My personal favourite is Felixstowe Ferry though, up until 2014 it was in the UK's top 100 as well.

Our place which someone has already mentioned (The Essex) is open and playing pretty well but the green staff have been struggling with a disease on the greens so I'd advise not playing until that's sorted in the Spring time.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Oh sorry mate - didn't realise you were over that part of the world :o
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Don't worry mate only teasing. Yes I live between Rushmere and Purdis and could walk to either. Can't afford the green fees at the moment but hoping to join the waiting list for Purdis this year and become a member in the next year or two. Enjoy your round it's a stunning course and comfortably the best in Suffolk
 
Tiger said:
Don't worry mate only teasing. Yes I live between Rushmere and Purdis and could walk to either. Can't afford the green fees at the moment but hoping to join the waiting list for Purdis this year and become a member in the next year or two. Enjoy your round it's a stunning course and comfortably the best in Suffolk
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I'd get in on the waiting list as early as you can as I reckon that (even though membership is currently full) demand will be high to get on the waiting list when Purdis finish their bunker renovation over the coming couple of years.
 
Tiger said:
I'm not sure but it also depends on how many leave each year. Two friends of mine put their names down last year and were lucky to get in for this year so I could have to wait a couple of seasons. But we'll see if I'm lucky I'll be in next year
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I was hoping that the society I used to play in would go there but they ditched it the year I joined as it was too expensive. I'll get up there one day, think it's the only "respectable" course around that area that I haven't played!
 
Tiger said:
Brett Vale is very nice though. Is it the 4th/5th that's over water? Love that hole. Not a big fan of the 10th though. I tend to choose death every time...
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I've been at Brett for 15yrs now apart from an 8 month interlude in 2010 when I got so pee'd off with golf and the amount of time I spent doing committee stuff that I needed a break, otherwise I'd have jacked the game in altogether.

Played around a bit, trying various other courses and eventually started the process of joining Ipswich. Served my probationary period and was accepted as a member. But just as I was about to commit to paying the joining fee the wife started talking about moving house in the next 18months before our daughter started secondary school. With an imminent house move on the horizon potentially to a different area I couldn't commit to the joining fee and had to decline the offer as a full member.

Rejoined Brett in 2011 (which deep down I always knew I would do, and the original intention was to be a member at BV and Ipswich) and haven't been anywhere else since (and spent most of that time back on the committee.... sometimes I never learn!!)

As for the house move? 5 years later and we are still in the same place!!!! <insert enraged smiley here>

Its the par 3 4th which has the water in play and a long narrow green....a great hole and in a medal round no one is too hacked off with a bogey... and yes the 10th can help you rack up a score despite being only just over 100yds....its name is very apt.
 
Yeah going for the green is daunting on the 3rd I do tend to aim at the right side and if I hit my stock fade chip on and try and get par that way. I've played the 10th twice first time had some fun in the bunkers. 2nd time hit the green but hard bounce over the back and down the slope :o

If I get in and you ever fancy a round let me know &#128077;
 
Tiger said:
Yeah going for the green is daunting on the 3rd I do tend to aim at the right side and if I hit my stock fade chip on and try and get par that way. I've played the 10th twice first time had some fun in the bunkers. 2nd time hit the green but hard bounce over the back and down the slope :o

If I get in and you ever fancy a round let me know &#62541;
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Definitely take you up n that offer.... though usually I try to play it a couple of times a year as a green fee.

Ha Ha.... the bunkers.... we have a guy who took a 13 on Death or Glory simply because he couldn't get out of one of the pot bunkers.... pity it was Club Championships and he was one of our best players! Equally.... I've twice seen folks hole out for birdie from "over the back and down the hill".
 
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