How did your course designer make it tough

First of all he put it in a valley that the wind howls down then had the great foresight to make OOB on 4 of the first 6 holes no more than 2 yards to the right of the tee, not great when you play with a fade(slice).
4+5 are on the side of a hill with no landing area so always rolls into the rough which is seriously thick and at least knee high.

8th has an elevated green that is 4 yards wide and 10 yards long and you have to land on the slope above the green to have any chance of staying on but at this time of year it usually rolls right down the slope and off the green leaving a very tricky flop shot back.
He then made the 9th 617 yards up hill usually into the wind, I've never been closer than 70 yards away in two with a gale force wind behind me, he also put the green on a severe slope making it hard to find the dance floor.

You start the back 9 with a 200 yard par 3, 11th is a dogleg left that has great swatches of rough all up the left hand side and trees on the right,
12th has out of bounds down the left, the side you need to go down to avoid the bunkers guarding the green.
13 is only 109y but with a ridiculously deep bunker filled with play sand short right, where my ball seems to end up most days.

14-16 has OOB right and left and 17 has a great bloody thick hedge running all the way down the left that seems to be a ball magnet

Thank god 18 is a relatively easy short par 4 at 317 it only has 3 deep bunkers guarding the green. :D

Why do I still play here lol. :D
 
How did your course designer make your course tough.

Simples - From a forest of 100,000 trees he carved fairways the width of spaghetti, put in greens the size of stamps, wobbly tee boxes where you can't get a flat lie, ditches across almost every fairway, forgot to strim out the prickles/bracken from the trees, forgot to put enough sand in the bunkers (or remove the stones), planted 100 staked trees and put them in giant chickenwire cages so it becomes like an obstacle course and forgets to cut the greens. Luckily in the Winter the greens are so full of leaves and twigs we don't need to worry about putting as it's IMPOSSIBLE, besides, the lack of drainage makes it almost too boggy to play.

:D

Nice place, good for a pot of tea and a teacake :)

(Hard to believe it's the best course within 20 miles!)
 
Hilly, windy and the prevailling wind is against or across the hardest holes.
 
The only thing that makes our course difficult are the slopes and a dirty great tree in front of the 5th green. That's more than enough to make it a decent test of golf though.
 
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