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Played yesterday at Bath (Sham Castle) and had a great day. Course is only 6500 yards and 3 of the par 4s are only 300 yards but what a challenge. Blind tee shots (and some approach shots, undulating fairways and lovely slick greens. You had to think about the shot off the tee and couldn't just blast a driver.
Made a nice change from some of the long courses where every tee shot is the same.
Recommend it to anyone who is in the area
 
Neilds said:
Played yesterday at Bath (Sham Castle) and had a great day. Course is only 6500 yards and 3 of the par 4s are only 300 yards but what a challenge. Blind tee shots (and some approach shots, undulating fairways and lovely slick greens. You had to think about the shot off the tee and couldn't just blast a driver.
Made a nice change from some of the long courses where every tee shot is the same.
Recommend it to anyone who is in the area
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Quite so. My home course is only 5600 yards, and many who consider themselves good players take a look at the card and think "micky mouse course", but nobody ever takes it apart. At last year's ProAm only one visiting pro broke par.
 
Ours is 6225 and not the longest by all means but it gets you thinking a lot and can't just pull out the driver at every opportunity.

Would much rather play a tight course that gets you thinking rather than a wide open & long championship course.
 
All lengths of courses have their place, long courses can often be boring as length is used to make it a challenge, shorter clubs tend to have IMO smarter design to exploit the usually limited space they exist in.

Saying that, i left a club that was 5800 yards as it is not overly satisfying using a wedge for every second shot except one
 
Course "only 6,500". Blimey, that sounds enough to me. What would you consider standard then? Incidentally I totally agree with your point. A course with shape and interesting holes is far more important than just distance. Anything over 7,000 yds would put me off.
 
6500 is probably 3 or 400 yds longer than what most golfers play on average.
 
351DRIVER said:
All lengths of courses have their place, long courses can often be boring as length is used to make it a challenge, shorter clubs tend to have IMO smarter design to exploit the usually limited space they exist in.

Saying that, i left a club that was 5800 yards as it is not overly satisfying using a wedge for every second shot except one
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Do you hit a long ball? You know, you have never mentioned it. ;)
 
garyinderry said:
Do you hit a long ball? You know, you have never mentioned it. ;)
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Not sure i mentioned anything there other than I got bored of a short course which is true so i left, the reason being hitting wedges into all the holes does get boring.

How else do i transmit this information in the context of the thread, i pretty much never say how far i hit clubs, i would challenge you to find a post of me doing so (I find that boring) go ahead and find a SINGLE post of me saying I HIT IT XXX YARDS, i bet you will not
 
351DRIVER said:
Not sure i mentioned anything there other than I got bored of a short course which is true so i left, the reason being hitting wedges into all the holes does get boring.

How else do i transmit this information in the context of the thread, i pretty much never say how far i hit clubs, i would challenge you to find a post of me doing so (I find that boring) go ahead and find a SINGLE post of me saying I HIT IT XXX YARDS, i bet you will not
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Now that is going off on one. :rofl: I was joking.


Its says you were a long drive man in your sig under every single post and I imagine that is your club head speed as your avatar.
 
garyinderry said:
Now that is going off on one. :rofl: I was joking.


Its says you were a long drive man in your sig under every single post and I imagine that is your club head speed as your avatar.
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Fair enough, i have been on forums for some time and the topic of how far do you hit your 3, 5 7iron, driver etc bores me to hell and i never take part.. hence my response!:D
 
Fortrose and Rosemarkie up here is a barely 6000 yards and most of the holes are little more than an iron off the tee and a wedge 2nd shot..... when there is no wind... which is usually one day a year;)
 
Boat of Garten is shortish and sublime. Its neighbour Spey Valley is considerably longer but still great in a modern kind of way.
Seems a lot of course designs lack a bit of imagination relying on length and bunkers at driving range to provide challenge.
 
patricks148 said:
Fortrose and Rosemarkie up here is a barely 6000 yards and most of the holes are little more than an iron off the tee and a wedge 2nd shot..... when there is no wind... which is usually one day a year;)
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Playing the open there on the 10th of next month. Should be a good day as I paid the extra fiver when booking to have no wind. :)
 
351DRIVER said:
Fair enough, i have been on forums for some time and the topic of how far do you hit your 3, 5 7iron, driver etc bores me to hell and i never take part.. hence my response!:D
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Just looked at your sig and it's great that you were off 3, interesting that you tried Long drive.
But I think that maybe there's a tad too much information about what you get up to with your good chum Mafia Golfer
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