SwingsitlikeHogan
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Let's hope it can keep going!
Ooops - It's in no trouble - it's vibrant. My post was a bad play on word on 'disappeared' in the OP title - as the course is so flat it's nearly 'disappeared'.
Let's hope it can keep going!
Has the course finally closed, have the football club moved in?
Its closed last August but work hasn't started on the training facilities yet. There was another 9 hole course a mile down the road called Charnock Brow which I believe has also closed due to the land owners wanting to sell the farm buildings and converted farm land the course was built on.
Hi John,
Here's one for you, a short lived 9 holer on the edge of Leicester Forest East in Leicestershire, had you blinked you'd probably have missed its very existence.
GolfShake seems to have the most information about it; 2,200 yards, par 31, but no scorecard.
http://www.golfshake.com/course/view/15197/Kingstand_Golf_Country_Club.html
The layout still shows up on Google Maps although it's apparently housing now.
Whoops, forgot to put the name on: Kingstand Golf & Country Club
I haven't read this thread so not sure if it has been mentioned, but St Georges Hill had a second 18 at one time. It closed/reduced to 9 holes after the second world war, through lack of demand.
Thanks. Any idea when it may have closed. I will put something together and add it to the website in the next day or so.
Hi John - Pyecombe GC had a ladies 9 hole links separate to the 'main' course when opened in 1894. Undue how long it remained being played but has long since gone.
A couple of links with a scorecards for Kingstand Golf Club, not sure how long it will stay up now the club is closed.
http://www.mygolfexperience.com/ViewGolfCourse.asp?clubID=1589&courseID=1552
http://www.oobgolf.com/courses/scorecard.php?id=28479
John (and B in M). I've got some more info on Elmstead Woods GC and changes over the years at Sundridge Park
Elmstead Woods GC was formed in 1907 as a 9 holes (played twice) and occupied the parkland to the south of the Mansion. The area is now holes 2 - 8 and 12 - 14 of the current East course. Original entrance fee for full members was 1 guinea (£1.05) and annual subs 3 1/2 guineas.
The original Sundridge Park 18 holes comprised the current 1 - 3, 10 - 18 of the West. The rest of the course was in a triangle to the north of New Street Hill (as is now) and bounded on the other two sides by the railway lines. This area is now covered by housing.
The 9 hole course for the ladies was to the west of the current West course and is now some tennis courts and allotments.
So effectively, Elmstead Woods GC has disappeared but in a new guise, 8 holes of the original Sundridge Park West course have gone as have the 9 hole ladies course.
John, I will get a bit more info scanned and PM'd to you soon.
Thanks for the links. The course must have undergone a few changes in its short life. The two above differ and I have found another one as well. Anyway I have put one of the scorecards on now if you want to take a look.
Certainly must have changed since I last played there approx 12-15 years ago. At that time the 1st was a par 4 and the 8th a par 5. Overall it was significantly longer than 2200 yards.
Was the range there then?
Maybe they squeezed the course a bit to fit in the range in the hope that that would bring more income?
Interesting clip here on golf club closure in Scotland, amusing the kids firing snow at Monty
http://news.stv.tv/east-central/241...loses-as-gleneagles-counts-down-to-ryder-cup/