First golf course played

[Bunkermagnet]

Poult Wood Municipal in Tonbridge......
It's got a lot to answer for.

Played it once, and thought it wasn’t a bad course back then

 

[Dando]

Another one for Beckenham Place Park. Happy days.

I remember sitting outside the entrance early on a Saturday waiting for the gates to open so we could book a tee time for the following week as you couldn’t get through on the phone.

 

[FAB90]

Nice course Bonnyton, played it about 8 times and always loved going there.

Ye it's a good course still play it regularly as my dad's still a member

 

[Liverbirdie]

Where do you play your golf then.
I am at Grange Park.
But live in Broadgreen.

Lee park, although havent played for over 3 months now due to injury.

 

[clubchamp98]

Lee park, although havent played for over 3 months now due to injury

I was a member there for 20 yrs until I moved ,Played last summer it was in great nick and trees had grown a lot.
We will have to have a knock once your fit enough.

 

[Wolf]

Poult Wood Municipal in Tonbridge......
It's got a lot to answer for.

First course I played when I took up playing for the second time back in November after 10 years in the golfing Wilderness.

Company my Mrs worked for at the time owned so I got a freebie to see if I really wanted to start playing again. It's not a bad little track really, to score decently you don't need much more than a 4 iron off any tee though.

 

[Orikoru]

One thing I forgot to add in my post above - the first time I ever played 9 holes (some scrappy cheap place, can't even remember the name of it now), I got a birdie. On a par 3 I hit a wood to just off the green and chipped in, through complete luck of course. Was probably several years before I ever got another one.

Having done some further research (otherwise known as, asking my dad), it turns out the scrappy little 9 hole where me and my mum had our first golf outing with him was called The Lanes. In the Slough/Stoke Poges area. Found a scorecard for it on Facebook as well and it was very short. Had one par 5, but all the par 4s were under 300 yards. This place is not open now anyway, probably shut years ago. God knows what's there now.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Yep, game for that.

 

[garyinderry]

Having never played before (other than pitch & putt) I took the driver...took a swing and missed...I can still remember the audible groan from everyone waiting.

Next swing I managed to knock the ball off the tee about 5 yards...and in complete embarrassment I ended up basically playing hockey with the driver up the 1st fairway to about 150 yards just to get away!

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Hahaha brilliant

 

[duncan mackie]

Murrayfield, Edinburgh with my Uncle as the start of a weeks introduction to golf in the 70's

 

[OOB]

Played there a lot in the early years...like you say a decent course back in the day.

Always kids in the river at the short 4th hole collecting balls and you could buy 5 balls for £1

I remember it well

 

[duncan mackie]

Poult Wood Municipal in Tonbridge......
It's got a lot to answer for.

Member there for over 25 years 🤔...

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Whinhill Golf Course, above Greenock in the early 90s.
My Dad took me and my brother up. My Dad wasn't a golfer and borrowed a set of clubs simply to let me and my bro have a go.
I kinda remember him cutting this old driver off the 1st tee and it probably bouncing 150 yards or so down and thinking he had hit it a mile.
We obviously couldn't play and we probably had to let guys through every other hole.

Whinhill is a formidable moorland course with a burn on just about every hole.
That said, I'd like to go back now that I've been a regular player for a few years. .

My first course was Kilmacolm with my great uncle who was a member there but after once I had the bug I used to play regularly at Whinhill and Routenburn before joining Gourock. As stated by Craw, the Whinhill is very rugged with some really tough holes, the old 14th used to get me every time! I believe the holes have been swapped around now?