cookelad
Tour Winner
Two years ago I left my old place (I didn't leave to come to London that happened a month later when my previous employers decided the Nantwich office and the company didn't need my services any more!) I left because the maintenance of the place just wasn't good enough, greens diseased and getting cut twice a week - on Mondays and Thursdays!!!! - tee's uneven, uncut and normally with a high stone count, hazards incorrectly marked, "greenstaff" more interested in adding mounds than fixing the problems and just general untidiness throughout!
I was back in Nantwich to help my mother out with her pub after surgery over the weekend and made a couple of trips out to my old place, see my mates and get some golf in. OMFG you might think things might have improved? No I reckon they were worse than ever, the course looked like a rough end muni, I know the weather in the North-West hasn't been the kindest but there can't be any excuse for the standard of the course I discovered. The grass on the tees was so long you shouldn't be allowed to prefer your lie let alone tee it up. I walked straight past my ball in the "fairway" twice because I couldn't see it in the long grass. As for the greens, the less said the better, but, how do you make greens slow and unreceptive?
A question to the Surrey golfers on here, I ran in to the most blinkered past captain you could imagine who made the following statement - "These greens are better than any of the greens in Surrey at the moment!" (I though he was kidding and laughed out loud before realising he wasn't), Any of you guys think your greens resembled bobbly uncut fairways this weekend?
I guess the real reason for my utter frustration is the same as ever in that it's a great layout with some interesting and challenging holes, it's miles away from anywhere so always quiet and peaceful, but with a great group of members that I think you'd have to go along way to beat. So, I believe, with the correct maintenance could be one of the top courses/venues in the area if the owners could just see sense and hire a qualified greenkeeper rather than blindly muddling through themselves!
I was back in Nantwich to help my mother out with her pub after surgery over the weekend and made a couple of trips out to my old place, see my mates and get some golf in. OMFG you might think things might have improved? No I reckon they were worse than ever, the course looked like a rough end muni, I know the weather in the North-West hasn't been the kindest but there can't be any excuse for the standard of the course I discovered. The grass on the tees was so long you shouldn't be allowed to prefer your lie let alone tee it up. I walked straight past my ball in the "fairway" twice because I couldn't see it in the long grass. As for the greens, the less said the better, but, how do you make greens slow and unreceptive?
A question to the Surrey golfers on here, I ran in to the most blinkered past captain you could imagine who made the following statement - "These greens are better than any of the greens in Surrey at the moment!" (I though he was kidding and laughed out loud before realising he wasn't), Any of you guys think your greens resembled bobbly uncut fairways this weekend?
I guess the real reason for my utter frustration is the same as ever in that it's a great layout with some interesting and challenging holes, it's miles away from anywhere so always quiet and peaceful, but with a great group of members that I think you'd have to go along way to beat. So, I believe, with the correct maintenance could be one of the top courses/venues in the area if the owners could just see sense and hire a qualified greenkeeper rather than blindly muddling through themselves!
