Liverbirdie
Ryder Cup Winner
Glasgow gailes
What's that saying don't start a round with a birdie, especially if a duffed 80 yarder is your approach, I say. Before that, we'd had one of the warmest welcomes from the pro, and what I can only presume was a greeter. Good start, GGGC.
The weather was quite benign so there was no excuse for not playing well, sadly I didn't. 20 odd degrees, not much wind, but it still affects your shots, so be careful when it's more than 15 MPH. The bushes were yellowing, so more intimidating than normal standing on some of the tees, and the rough and heather could still be tough at times. Played off the yellers, BTW. All yardages are from memory, so take 30 off!
Course/personal highlights:-
2nd - Standing one the tee, it was a sliver of a fairway, and even though I found the middle, the result was a bunker 60 yards short. still found the green for a par. Not much error allowed on this hole.
3rd - SI 1, A long par 4 with the fairway set at an angle, ideally to suit a fader (but not a slicer), but still requiring two good hits. Beware the dreaded straight drive also!
5th - A 530 yard par 5, with a bit of space on the drive, but narrows nearer to the green, as I found out by losing two in the bushes. It was a shame that I picked up, as the last approaching 50 yards to the green is a great view with all sorts of mounds and hollows to negotiate.
6th - Tough little par 3, with more green to play with than you can see off the tee, cue a one foot in/one kneeling down sand save to 8 inches to tap in for par.
9th - A shortish par 4 at 304, but a bugger of an approach, if the pin is cut on the front. It is a raised green, with run offs to all sides, and bunkers that gather. Only about 2 out of 8 of us scored on this, with mine the only par.
10th SI 2 - The wind was blowing across this hold so making a decision of how much to play into the wind or not, most got it wrong to find the heather, except Valentino. Another one were it takes a well placed drive, as well as a good long iron or hybrid to gain a par.
14th - A good long pretty straight par 5, with heather and bunkers coming into play in all the right places. Another one with a cracking approach shot through some hillocks, which frame the green for a lovely hole. A happy par, despite finding the fairway bunker.
15th - Hit the green, make par, move on. I didn't, 3 putted and made 5.
17th - Is that ridge reachable? If you can it will feed the drive down towards the hole. I didn't, but the mate in the following group did. Nice hole and a good drive, gets a good reward.
Overall, I really liked it but didn't love it. If it had a few more elevation changes it would be up there. It does have raised tees, but if the fairways were also, it would be a cracker. The hardest holes can be the shorter , seemingly benign holes. Sometimes you need to have a links course bearing it's teeth, to appreciate it fully, and as the wind was only 8-10 mph, we didn't see it's molars. Still it was a tough ask, with only 1 of our 8 playing to handicap, I lagged behind with 30 points.
Some crap pictures, for ya, for those of a nervous disposition, beware seeing Scouser's overswing:-
No.1 SI no.1 - lots of heather in flower.
No.2 The sixth, par 3, the kneeling in the bunker one.
No.3 Some jakey we let play with us, cheeky sod took the nearest the pin, I felt so sorry for him in them trousers, I've now adopted him.
No.4 The view back down the 18th hole.
I told you they were crap.
What's that saying don't start a round with a birdie, especially if a duffed 80 yarder is your approach, I say. Before that, we'd had one of the warmest welcomes from the pro, and what I can only presume was a greeter. Good start, GGGC.
The weather was quite benign so there was no excuse for not playing well, sadly I didn't. 20 odd degrees, not much wind, but it still affects your shots, so be careful when it's more than 15 MPH. The bushes were yellowing, so more intimidating than normal standing on some of the tees, and the rough and heather could still be tough at times. Played off the yellers, BTW. All yardages are from memory, so take 30 off!
Course/personal highlights:-
2nd - Standing one the tee, it was a sliver of a fairway, and even though I found the middle, the result was a bunker 60 yards short. still found the green for a par. Not much error allowed on this hole.
3rd - SI 1, A long par 4 with the fairway set at an angle, ideally to suit a fader (but not a slicer), but still requiring two good hits. Beware the dreaded straight drive also!
5th - A 530 yard par 5, with a bit of space on the drive, but narrows nearer to the green, as I found out by losing two in the bushes. It was a shame that I picked up, as the last approaching 50 yards to the green is a great view with all sorts of mounds and hollows to negotiate.
6th - Tough little par 3, with more green to play with than you can see off the tee, cue a one foot in/one kneeling down sand save to 8 inches to tap in for par.
9th - A shortish par 4 at 304, but a bugger of an approach, if the pin is cut on the front. It is a raised green, with run offs to all sides, and bunkers that gather. Only about 2 out of 8 of us scored on this, with mine the only par.
10th SI 2 - The wind was blowing across this hold so making a decision of how much to play into the wind or not, most got it wrong to find the heather, except Valentino. Another one were it takes a well placed drive, as well as a good long iron or hybrid to gain a par.
14th - A good long pretty straight par 5, with heather and bunkers coming into play in all the right places. Another one with a cracking approach shot through some hillocks, which frame the green for a lovely hole. A happy par, despite finding the fairway bunker.
15th - Hit the green, make par, move on. I didn't, 3 putted and made 5.
17th - Is that ridge reachable? If you can it will feed the drive down towards the hole. I didn't, but the mate in the following group did. Nice hole and a good drive, gets a good reward.
Overall, I really liked it but didn't love it. If it had a few more elevation changes it would be up there. It does have raised tees, but if the fairways were also, it would be a cracker. The hardest holes can be the shorter , seemingly benign holes. Sometimes you need to have a links course bearing it's teeth, to appreciate it fully, and as the wind was only 8-10 mph, we didn't see it's molars. Still it was a tough ask, with only 1 of our 8 playing to handicap, I lagged behind with 30 points.
Some crap pictures, for ya, for those of a nervous disposition, beware seeing Scouser's overswing:-
No.1 SI no.1 - lots of heather in flower.
No.2 The sixth, par 3, the kneeling in the bunker one.
No.3 Some jakey we let play with us, cheeky sod took the nearest the pin, I felt so sorry for him in them trousers, I've now adopted him.
No.4 The view back down the 18th hole.
I told you they were crap.
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