timd77
Assistant Pro
If golf experiences are your thing, then I would recommend Church Stretton in Shropshire as a course you should play at least once, and preferrably when the weather is apocolyptic!
We booked yesterday's round when mid-September promised nice weather! So off we went, wishing we'd booked it for Saturday. The course is in a range of hills called Long Mynd, and right from the 1st hole you're playing up until you get to the 18th. Most of the holes are on top of the hills, you're so high up that your ears pop and the lid off my bottle of fizzy water burst off from the pressure when I opened it!
It's meant to be a very tough course even in the best conditions, but the wind as you ascend was (no exaggeration) close to hurricane speeds and the rain was horizontal and resembled a harsh hail storm. The ball regularly fell off the tee and you could hardly stand still let alone swing a club!. The holes themselves we very difficult, often playing over a ridge or up a hill to the point where you didn't really have a target and hoped for the best. The greens were in really good nick, but the fairways mainly consisted of areas of land with a bit less heather and bracken than the rough!
All in all we had a great day (if you don't laugh you'll cry), but the winning stableford score was 30 and the nearest the pin prize had to be changed because nobody got on the green in 1!
Extreme golf…could be a new sport!
We booked yesterday's round when mid-September promised nice weather! So off we went, wishing we'd booked it for Saturday. The course is in a range of hills called Long Mynd, and right from the 1st hole you're playing up until you get to the 18th. Most of the holes are on top of the hills, you're so high up that your ears pop and the lid off my bottle of fizzy water burst off from the pressure when I opened it!
It's meant to be a very tough course even in the best conditions, but the wind as you ascend was (no exaggeration) close to hurricane speeds and the rain was horizontal and resembled a harsh hail storm. The ball regularly fell off the tee and you could hardly stand still let alone swing a club!. The holes themselves we very difficult, often playing over a ridge or up a hill to the point where you didn't really have a target and hoped for the best. The greens were in really good nick, but the fairways mainly consisted of areas of land with a bit less heather and bracken than the rough!
All in all we had a great day (if you don't laugh you'll cry), but the winning stableford score was 30 and the nearest the pin prize had to be changed because nobody got on the green in 1!
Extreme golf…could be a new sport!
