Moving to the South Coast, where to live and play

fundy said:
i assume one (or all?) of these is playgolf bournemouth? drove past it on tuesday looked as though it was pretty much under water

are meyrick park and queens park worth playing?
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Meyrick is good, greens have been exceptional the last couple of years. Queens is very run down although a good layout. Both courses are on common land and you have dog walkers everywhere who have priority so you are often hanging around while they play ball in the middle of the fairway.
 
drive4show said:
Meyrick is good, greens have been exceptional the last couple of years. Queens is very run down although a good layout. Both courses are on common land and you have dog walkers everywhere who have priority so you are often hanging around while they play ball in the middle of the fairway.
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Having left a club on common land to move to one on private land I can only agree with those comments, we used to suffer cyclists & horse riders as well.
 
SaintHacker said:
Fundy I'll happily take you round New Forest (when its dried out a bit). I would invite therod along but I see I wasn't mentioned in the Brock game, and we don't really want his sort anyway...;)
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You’re always invited mate, sounds like I need to organise something...,not my forte!!:o
It was an open invite to all. I do enjoy the New Forest :whistle:
 
fundy said:
i assume one (or all?) of these is playgolf bournemouth? drove past it on tuesday looked as though it was pretty much under water

are meyrick park and queens park worth playing?
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Yep they’re all muni types, the first two are par 3’s. Solent meads is a proper links course. Iford bridge has a good adventure dinosaur crazy Golf !
 
srixon 1 said:
Probably the wrong side of Bournemouth for where Fundy intends to live.
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tough to get to. As are the big ‘3’ from Christchurch side. Parkstone is 5 miles closer to me but would take 20 mins longer than Brok, more on a Saturday PM. Traffic can be a shocker:o
Knighton Heath is nice though. I almost joined there when I lived over that side of Bournemouth, but they made it really difficult because I didn’t have a proposer, and my first experience of the clubhouse was some fella I was with being scolded for his no sock/loafer combo. I thought this was fair enough, it wasn’t the 80’s and we weren’t in Miami :o
 
I used to live in the centre of Christchurch and it was a 25min drive to Broadstone, about the same to Brok.
 
I live 5 minutes from Broadstone, but I play at Dudsbury. Be interested to join a south coast meet, and also happy to host people at Dudsbury.
 
Fish said:
I just remembered it was where Willy played for a few years before moving to Parkstone.
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That’s correct. Played there with him a couple of times. Not a bad course and no two holes are the same. It can get a bit firm in the height of summer though which can lead to some dodgy bounces.
 
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