How hard do you rate you club to others?

[Darren24]

Just thought I would ask the question as without being biased I would say my course (Curzon Park) is tougher than most others I have played. To be honest I have most probably only played about 15 other courses. I find i play other courses and tend to score better in general. I find my course is quite tight, tricky and challenging on every hole.

My question is how do you rate your course to others and how much does it effect you're handicap when playing other courses?

 

[Smiffy]

On a flat calm day Cooden is quite an easy track. If I picked my days, I reckon I could get my handicap down around there with no real problem.
With the wind blowing though, it's a different story.
My old club (Crowborough Beacon) was deemed to be much tougher.
Getting, and maintaining, a decent handicap around there was considered to be a bit of an achievement, and regular playing partners of mine always reckoned that a handicap earned there was worth about 2 or 3 shots on most other courses.
You had to learn most of the shots in the book due to the terrain, and there were some fairly long(ish) carries over the heather, so you had to hit it fairly decently off the tee as well.

 

[Deleted member 15717]

Quite tough. Locals tend to say a handicap gained at my place will travel very well, and at most other places, would tend to be a couple of shots lower. Of course...it's all local knowledge after a while, so, to me, it doesn't seem 'that' difficult anymore!

 

[chrisd]

Mine is a 6300 yard track that is tight for driving and a handicap there travels quite well. There are no easy holes as I found in yesterday's comp when I shot a 9 on a short par 3!

 

[duncan mackie]

Mine is a 6300 yard track that is tight for driving and a handicap there travels quite well. There are no easy holes as I found in yesterday's comp when I shot a 9 on a short par 3!

I would agree that yours plays tough!

 

[richart]

Mine is vey easy. Just ask Hawkeye.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Mine is vey easy. Just ask Hawkeye.

Nothing to do with the course, more me playing like a knob. I'd struggle to play to handicap if the course was 2000 yards with no rough or bunkers at the moment.

 

[Evesdad]

Hcps at mine tend to travel pretty well. Think our head green keeper had a chainsaw for Xmas though!! Some parts of the course have been cleared and opened up. A few bits will have no impact but a few other like some trees and shrubs in the 8th. A shot to the right would be blocked by the trees and shrubs. There is now a clearer shot back to the fairway.

 

[Khamelion]

My home course has some tricky holes and some easy ones, it's a pretty tight in places so straight hitting is very important. They are making changes to some holes this year ready for the start next month and next year there ill be two no holes and the course will go from a par 69, to 71, with the CSS and SSS changing. The 16th being the biggest change going from a par 4 to par 5, not getting any longer but they are adding trees to contour the fairway and bunkers where the normal golfer will land his ball from the up hill tee shot.

Looking forward to playing the course.

 

[Deleted member 17920]

I guess my course is just about ok. SSS is only 2 harder than par.

Agreed its no St Mellion but it just about scrapes in as half a decent course :whoo:

 

[wonga]

Everybody who plays our course says that the first 4 holes are a card wrecker and reckon that if they played there regularly their handicap would go up!

 

[NWJocko]

Pretty tough course, my handicap doesn't travel well because I'm rubbish :rofl:

Par 73 (White, 72 Blue that's longer!) SSS 74 and CSS was 75/76 pretty much every comp last year. Only have a couple of comps off the Blues, mainly there for when it was used for Open qualifying and the elite amateur event it hosts each year.

 

[huds1475]

Funny. You hear the comment about handicaps travelling well from members at most clubs.

Comment falls into the same bracket as other 'wisdom' often dished out like...

"Keep it in play and you can score well here"

"Putts ALWAYS break towards the water / road / setting sun"

and so on...

 

[NWJocko]

Funny. You hear the comment about handicaps travelling well from members at most clubs.

Comment falls into the same bracket as other 'wisdom' often dished out like...

"Keep it in play and you can score well here"

"Putts ALWAYS break towards the water / road / setting sun"

and so on...

I agree, handicap "travelling" is more down to the player than where they play.

Annoyingly steady players like Liverbirdie, Junior and Qwerty could play anywhere as a member but still score well pretty much any time they tee it up.

Erratic idiots like me on the other hand......,

 

[huds1475]

I agree, handicap "travelling" is more down to the player than where they play.

Annoyingly steady players like Liverbirdie, Junior and Qwerty could play anywhere as a member but still score well pretty much any time they tee it up.

Erratic idiots like me on the other hand......,

Nail on the head. Good golfers travel well.

I'm I the 'other group' :mmm:

 

[NWJocko]

Nail on the head. Good golfers travel well.

I'm I the 'other group' :mmm:

With me aswell mate.

I'd like to say you're in good company but..... :rofl:

 

[huds1475]

With me aswell mate.

I'd like to say you're in good company but..... :rofl:

You can do one! I'm a couple of categories off most of you!

Some short game stuff this year and you'll be another category further away, but no doubt still saying you're rubbish

 

[Liverbirdie]

I agree, handicap "travelling" is more down to the player than where they play.

Annoyingly steady players like Liverbirdie, Junior and Qwerty could play anywhere as a member but still score well pretty much any time they tee it up.

Erratic idiots like me on the other hand......,

I dunno, members of Davyhulme handicaps tend to travel well, and that course is nimps.......

 

[palindromicbob]

If we had a slope rating we'd probably rate somewhere towards the easier end and I'd get extra shots at most other places. At least that's how I justify my poor away scores

 

[Fish]

I agree, handicap "travelling" is more down to the player than where they play.

Annoyingly steady players like Liverbirdie, Junior and Qwerty could play anywhere as a member but still score well pretty much any time they tee it up.

Erratic idiots like me on the other hand......,

I think when I play away in B-team games I concentrate more as I am unfamiliar of the course, whereas at a home course you can get too familiar at times and know where the risk & reward shots are and more times than not fail, thus scoring well away becomes that your handicap travels well where in reality, you've not taken any unnecessary risks and kept in play and scored better.

That's my take on it anyway :smirk: