Might be going back to Crowborough Beacon!!

Aztecs27 said:
what date? Or is this an invite for the Sarf East Mafia only? :(
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You are more than welcome to come down for a game Aztecs but if you take my advice I'd wait until the Spring. It's a long way to come for a game of golf and I'd love you to see and play the course at it's best (or coming into it's best).
 
Smiffy I would love to come for a game on a Sunday with you. Let me know if you have a space.

Congratulations on becoming a member at Crowborough again. It is a superb course and I love it. Won there two years ago in a society event so I have fond memories. The 18th is probably one of the toughest finishing holes I have played as even if you are on for two, the green is treacherous and quick in the summer months too.. Great challenge. Plenty of other excellent holes too. 2nd, 4th, 6th, 9th, 12th!

Hope you enjoy yourself.

Cheers,

Snelly

PS - I have driven to the 2nd green off the yellows! Honest!
 
Smiffy

I'll join the Crowborough love-in if I may? Always enjoy playing there, just a little too far for me to play on a regular basis but would love a Sunday game.

I think a drink on the balcony looking over the course and beyond on a sunny day takes some beating!

Congratulations.
 
Snelly said:
Smiffy I would love to come for a game on a Sunday with you. Let me know if you have a space. Congratulations on becoming a member at Crowborough again. It is a superb course and I love it. Won there two years ago in a society event so I have fond memories. The 18th is probably one of the toughest finishing holes I have played as even if you are on for two, the green is treacherous and quick in the summer months too.. Great challenge. Plenty of other excellent holes too. 2nd, 4th, 6th, 9th, 12th! Hope you enjoy yourself. Cheers, Snelly PS - I have driven to the 2nd green off the yellows! Honest!
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There will be an invite winging it's way to you at sometime in the future Snelly, just waiting for the weather to improve and the course to begin drying out! That's some drive to hit the 2nd green, even off the yellows. I love that hole, one of my favourites. The only hole I could never get my head around in all my time there was the 9th (par 4). Never did play that hole well, it just didn't suit my power fade! If I'm honest...I don't think there is a really weak hole on the course, well maybe the par 3 13th, but then even that has it's charm. Each of them have to be played differently, it's no good just going up there and blasting it, you'll come off a gibbering wreck. I can now book the tee up to 60 days in advance so once I get my head around the booking system and know what Sundays I am working I will book a couple of Sunday morning fourballs up to accommodate those that have said they want to play. Rob
 
Snelly said:
PS - I have driven to the 2nd green off the yellows! Honest!
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that is a superhuman feat. Did you cut the corner or hit a 60 yard fade around the corner. After doing that I suppose you have to get a bit lucky to miss the massive gorse filled crater.

I played it 3 times, parred it twice. I'm happy with that ratio.


There a challenge for you Smiffy, next time you're out with the Rabbits, have a crack at the green !!
 
therod said:
that is a superhuman feat. Did you cut the corner or hit a 60 yard fade around the corner. After doing that I suppose you have to get a bit lucky to miss the massive gorse filled crater.

I played it 3 times, parred it twice. I'm happy with that ratio.


There a challenge for you Smiffy, next time you're out with the Rabbits, have a crack at the green !!
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My guess is that Snelly hit a big draw over the trees on the right and took the crater out of play by bounding down on the left. Hitting a fade down there would see you in the crater. I think the smallest club I've ever hit in there was a wedge after a good drive for me in the Summer months. If you are short off the tee there the only way really to play that hole is to aim out to the left and let your ball feed round. The green is a right bugger to hit from a long way out. Even if you do manage to clear the crater you have a hard job trying to hold it.
 
Ok Smiffy,

Give me a couple of months to get my 'C' game up to scratch, and I might let you humiliate me round there.

I always wanted to play the course, but they wouldn't let me on. Too common or something.

It was either that or they wanted paying for it.



PS If you want me to beg, I can do that too.
 
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Smiffy said:
My guess is that Snelly hit a big draw over the trees on the right and took the crater out of play by bounding down on the left. Hitting a fade down there would see you in the crater. I think the smallest club I've ever hit in there was a wedge after a good drive for me in the Summer months. If you are short off the tee there the only way really to play that hole is to aim out to the left and let your ball feed round. The green is a right bugger to hit from a long way out. Even if you do manage to clear the crater you have a hard job trying to hold it.
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Hi,

I love that second hole and think it is one of the best par 4's in Sussex. That day, I only took a driver because I was cross as I had just 3 putted the first from about 15 feet!

I hit a very hard but straight ball when I drove the green. It set off on a line that was further right than I had meant but it was a lovely warm day and any breeze was helping. My 3 playing partners all said bad luck, lost ball but I wasn't so sure as it had come right out of the middle. When we got to the green it became clear that my ball had missed the crater on the left then had a massive bounce forwards and slightly right. It must have ran towards that channel on the left of the green but obviously, the hard, right sloping ground did the rest. Quite surprisingly, it almost ran off the green on the right, such is the slope on that green when they are running quickly. And yes, I did two putt!

I won the competition that day as I went round in level par. Funnily enough I barely used the driver after that and took irons off a lot off tees. Only other drive was on the 18th I think and that was a nice hit, leaving a 9 iron onto the green. I have played Crowborough probably eight or nine times and that is the only par I have ever made on the 18th. Another absolutely superb par 4 that I always struggle on.

Have a good weekend.



Snelly.
 
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