Love/Hate affair

[DAVEYBOY]

With the stupidly high rough on the PGA!!!

Here the Love part... A lot of visitors get excited when playing the PGA and use there Sunday best. By this I mean there best balls. For example, Today when looking for a ball of my own I found 3 brand new Titelist NXT balls within a meter of each other. Looking for a mates ball I found 2 Pro V1's within a foot of each other. Now that's just an example of a few we found today. It's ridiculous how many you could find if you went looking I'm guessing hundreds of pounds worth.

:angry: Here's the hate part... Anything a few yards either side of the Fairway is a goner and along with it your round. You have to be so accurate around there as its literally a a drop if you are off target.

 

[tyke]

The same at a lot of courses at the moment, brutal but all part of the challenge.

 

[DAVEYBOY]

I've been playing there since Feb and I'm a different golfer to the one that first teed it up there. It's forced me to become better and I'm glad of the challenge.

 

[Mungoscorner]

Goat Track imo.

If you want to sell something as expensive as that, you should at least maintain it.Every time i've played there the bunkers have been full of footprints, and the greens full of pitch marks.
Maxstoke Park is two minutes away and a far better course.

 

[DAVEYBOY]

Goat Track imo.

If you want to sell something as expensive as that, you should at least maintain it.Every time i've played there the bunkers have been full of footprints, and the greens full of pitch marks.
Maxstoke Park is two minutes away and a far better course.

Can't really agree with you here, the course looks great at the moment and the rough isn't the way it is due to lack of maintenance. Bunkers are racked perfectly every day but the green keepers can't help the idiots who refuse to rack them. As for the pitch marks, again idiots who refuse to repair them. But the greens are fast and and in great condition with the exception of some pitch marks just like any other course. So I think goat track is a stupid remark but then again its the same comment you leave on any thread which involves the PGA course isn't it.

 

[hovis]

Goat Track imo.

If you want to sell something as expensive as that, you should at least maintain it.Every time i've played there the bunkers have been full of footprints, and the greens full of pitch marks.
Maxstoke Park is two minutes away and a far better course.

Goat track! First off all its a inland links designed course not a parkland. How can yoh judge a course based on foot prints in bunkers and pitch marks. Perhaps they could employ bouncers to stand guard on the bunkers and greens. People who moan about the pga do so because it gave them a spanking! You must play one hell of a good course to refer to the pga as a goat track

 

[beggsy]

I myself am not a lover of the PGA I played pretty well on there I have played better for less money would only go back to play the Brabazon

 

[In_The_Rough]

Heard some rubbish on here but to call it a goat track is simply daft. The rough is the same at a lot of courses I have played at miss the fairway at your peril

 

[Foxholer]

Goat track! First off all its a inland links designed course not a parkland. How can yoh judge a course based on foot prints in bunkers and pitch marks. Perhaps they could employ bouncers to stand guard on the bunkers and greens. People who moan about the pga do so because it gave them a spanking! You must play one hell of a good course to refer to the pga as a goat track

I wasn't particularly impressed with the PGA. It seemed a reasonably to slightly over-priced muni style course.

I've never seem to have rated courses that describe themselves as 'inland links'. That always seems a bit of a cop-out by developers who either can't be bothered or can't afford to consider trees or where the course location is such that trees are unlikely to grow - aka windswept ones! I wouldn't actually describe the PGA as 'inland links' myself, just an open countryside one.

I think it's quite reasonable to criticise a course that has footprints in bunkers that were obviously made a couple of days ago - and I've seen a few of those on courses. Excessive Pitch Marks tend to reflect the type of player the course attracts. I've seen, and repaired, pitch marks on some top courses!

 

[Mungoscorner]

Goat track! First off all its a inland links designed course not a parkland. How can yoh judge a course based on foot prints in bunkers and pitch marks. Perhaps they could employ bouncers to stand guard on the bunkers and greens. People who moan about the pga do so because it gave them a spanking! You must play one hell of a good course to refer to the pga as a goat track

Last time i played the PGA was a couple of months ago, a freebie with a society who'd had somebody drop out.The bunkers were full of footprints and the greens covered in unrepaired pitch marks. I shot a gross 80 off the back tee's, which could have been much better had i not gone for the second green with my second shot and lost a ball. The fairways are huge on most of the holes and normally very firm, so unless your very wild its safe to say that any drive that hits the short stuff will go miles, in fact i used my 2 iron and hybrid more off the tee than my driver.
Highlight of the day was almost slam dunking my second shot on the 18th in front of a crowd of people who were standing behind the green. An 8 iron that left a pitch mark an inch from the hole and the ball finishing up 4 feet away.
We then went for a drink, the round of four drinks cost me almost £20 !!!
Considering i'd had a free day out, had won a prize and played reasonably well, i really didn't enjoy it much at all.
Three weeks ago i played the members invitation at Maxstoke Park. The greens were absolutely immaculate, not a pitchmark in site and extremely fast and smooth. The rest of the course was just as good, and of note was the new bunkering on one hole which was only done weeks ago yet looked like it had been there for decades. Even though i blew up after ten holes and ruined a potentially good scorecard, i still enjoyed every minute of it. When we finished i bought a drink for myself and my playing partners, two carlings, a guinness and a tetleys, it cost less than a tenner.
I'm a member of Stoneleigh Deer Park, it is also quite linksy during summer, fast firm fairways and fast undulating greens, it's also very picturesque at this time of year with numerous ancient oaks and chessnut tree's dotted aound the course, and the River Avon running through the middle. Its not the toughest course in the world, but it has enough tricky holes to ruin a good scorecard if you miss the short stuff.