How many new courses have you played this year?

[pbrown7582]

i'll add my small list....

York (and joined as member)
Forest Park
Chipping Sodbury
The Mere
Roayl Liverpool

 

[Laughing Gravy]

Smallish list from me too:

Oswestry
Blackmoor
Hayling Island
Old Thorns
Tylney park
Newbury & Crookham
Church Stretton

 

[Happy_G]

New courses for me this year - Woburn (Dukes), St Pierre (old), Portpatrick, Marlborough, Magnolia Park, Chippenham, Tidworth Garrison and the Manor House Castle Combe

 

[full_throttle]

in no particular order....

Belfry - Derby Course
Felixstowe Ferry - Martello and Kingsbarn
Worksop
Bondhay
Blackmoor
Bearwood Lakes
Camberley Heath
Cooden Beach
Lichfield - (Seedy Mill)
Evesham
Luton Hoo
Whittlebury Hall
Normandy Hall
Grimsby
Belton Woods (Both courses)
Cleobury Mortimer (2nd visit, but cancelled last time)

 

[Liverbirdie]

The very good

Old course St andrews
Royal Liverpool
Royal Lytham & st annes
Princes
Littlestone
Turnberry Ailsa
Royal Aberdeen
Llanmymnych
Royal St. Davids
Nefyn

The bad

North Manchester (Middleton)
Slaley hall (the main one, Huntsman??) had to walk off after taking 4 hours to play 13 holes, due to slow play everywhere. We had a 30th birthday in Newcastle later that night.

And the quite good

Heswall, Eaton, Banchory,Stonehaven, Edzell, Gleddoch house,Lundin links, Seahouses, Pitreavie, Ladybank,The Carrick, Canterbury, Porthmadog,Hazel grove, Burnley,Skipton, Accrington, Heysham.

Plus a few others in the north west in "opens" that I can't remember all, but a few more around Burnley, Manchester.

Hope to fit in or accept invites next year for West Lancs, Birkdale, Sandiway and hopefully succesfully apply for an open at Hillside, after unsuccessfully leaving oit to another last year. Maybe Cruden bay also.

 

[gripitripit]

Cambridge Menzie
Cromwell (Abbotsley)
Royston.

 

[Naybrains]

Not Many this year unfortunately, but all very enjoyable :

Minto
La Manga - North
La Manga - South
Archerfield - Fidra
Gosforth - Bridlepath
Gullane 1

 

[sweatysock41]

Not a bad year

Beau Desert
Luton Hoo
Breadsall Priory (Priory)
Walmley
St Pierre (Old)
Lutterworth
Kings Norton
Wharton Park
Richings Park
Heron's Reach

 

[AmandaJR]

A few this year:

The Marquess Woburn (get that in first)!
Silloth on Solway
Preston Golf Club
Overstone Park
St Ives (Cambs)
The Cromwell
Beds and County
Wellingborough Golf Club
Aylesbury Vale
Mowsbury
Somewhere in the Midlands on a golf break which was cast from the memory as rubbish course and 6 hour round!

More than I thought now I list them !

Playing The Hotchkin at Woodhall Spa later this month too

 

[Crow]

Not many for me, but still more than I expected:

Beau Desert
Hanbury Manor
Blackmoor
Cardigan
Breadsall Priory, Priory Course
Forest of Arden, Arden Course

 

[stevie_r]

Kilbirnie Place
Vale of Leven
Wigtownshire County
Lagganmore
Dragons tooth
Portpatrick - best of the bunch
Gleddoch
Les Ormes (Jersey)

 

[Qwerty]

Just four this year.

Royal lytham....Good/Brutal. But not as good as I expected.
Beau Desert......Can't wait to play it again.
Stranraer...... Quite impressed, some superb holes.
Portpatrick.....holiday type course.Too many blind shots.bit of a let down

 

[Fyldewhite]

9 in total, and quite a variety !!

Royal Lytham and St Annes
Quinta do Lago South (Algarve)
Pinheiros Altos (Algarve)
Salgardos (Algarve)
Slaley Hall (Hunting)
Slaley Hall (Priestman)
Longcliffe
Carus Green
Towneley Park

 

[Wayman]

ones i can think of are:

seaton carew
gullane 3
worksop
bondhay
whickham
brancepeth caste
whitekirk
windermere
saltburn
forest pines (all 27 holes)
fulford

 

[Region3]

The Bedford
Woodhall Spa Bracken
Woodhall Spa Hotchkin
Blackmoor
Branston Golf Club
West Herts
The Grove (Front 9)
Aylesbury Park

 

[rickg]

Carton House
The Berkshire
Goodwood Downs
Old Thorns
Camberley Heath
Blackmoor
Woodhall Spa
Burhill
Flackwell Heath
Stoke Park
West Hill

 

[aceofspades]

Chippenham, Dinas Powis, Monmouth and Sunningdale Old Course, which was excellent.

 

[Imurg]

Not many for me...

Hanbury Manor
Thornbury
Blackmoor
The Grove - front 9.

Going to try to improve on that next year.

 

[Dodger]

Royal Montrose
Ballyliffin Old
Ballyliffin Glashedy
Berovice
Karlstejn
Albatross
Cruden Bay
Queens Course


I think that is all...... a poor year for me newbies wise but I have played a lot of tracks that I have played before....in fact I have played more golf away from home than I have at my home club!

 

[Fyldewhite]

Royal lytham....Good/Brutal. But not as good as I expected.

One of my first this year too and I'd agree about the course. It's just a golf course and there must be 100 or more as good around the UK. Played it again a few weeks ago and again thought that at end of the day it's just a golf course, in great nick admittedly but still just a golf course. However, the buzz in the clubhouse with history all around is just such a brilliant experience and that for me is what sets these sort of courses apart. Had dinner in a room with a painting of Bobby Jones on the wall with the club he hit the famous shot on 17 in the 1926 open on display underneath.....not to mention all the open winners memorabilia adorning the walls of the landing. Awsome place, propper shivers down the spine stuff.