louise_a
Money List Winner
Just as a change from threads bout good stuff, how about one about bad.
This is prompted by me playing Childwall today, the course is so boring, I had played there last year and wasn't impressed but thought I ought to give it another chance hence playing there today.
I think one good test of a course is when you play it a 2nd time you stand on a tee and think ah, I remember this hole. This only happened on the 5th hole and the 17th. There is just nothing about the course that stands out apart from those 2 holes and maybe the 18th. but by the time I had reached the 17th I had lost the will to live, I will swear we played at least one hole twice on the back nine, also the greens were shockingly bumpy.
I know there isn't much you can do if the course is flat, but you can vary the lengths of the holes, instead all the par 4s bar one were all quite close in distance, similarly the par 5s and there was nothing special about the par 3s either. Maybe its different when playing off the whites or yellows, I don't know.
The strange thing I find is that even though it is not the cheapest of opens to play in, it is always booked solid, I just don't get it.
Anyway that's my rant over, any other contributions?
This is prompted by me playing Childwall today, the course is so boring, I had played there last year and wasn't impressed but thought I ought to give it another chance hence playing there today.
I think one good test of a course is when you play it a 2nd time you stand on a tee and think ah, I remember this hole. This only happened on the 5th hole and the 17th. There is just nothing about the course that stands out apart from those 2 holes and maybe the 18th. but by the time I had reached the 17th I had lost the will to live, I will swear we played at least one hole twice on the back nine, also the greens were shockingly bumpy.
I know there isn't much you can do if the course is flat, but you can vary the lengths of the holes, instead all the par 4s bar one were all quite close in distance, similarly the par 5s and there was nothing special about the par 3s either. Maybe its different when playing off the whites or yellows, I don't know.
The strange thing I find is that even though it is not the cheapest of opens to play in, it is always booked solid, I just don't get it.
Anyway that's my rant over, any other contributions?
Nice big, juicy bait you've cast out there Bob - bit early at the moment so I'm sure a load more big fish will be having a good old nibble as the day progresses!!! :whoo:
As public courses go though, actually think it was very good and a good test of golf for most abilities. The last time I went back about 8 years ago, the greens were superb - very quick and true.
