Look forward to the invite/s next year!
Need to see how much they want first! Sure i can find a nice breezy Feb morning for ya!
New membership in Surrey / Hampshire / Berkshire border (Camberley) - any ideas?
- Thread starter dufferman
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Need to see how much they want first! Sure i can find a nice breezy Feb morning for ya!
spongebob59
Journeyman Pro
Couple of guys left Canterbury to join Princes but came back after a year due to lack of suitable tee times, something to bear in mind.
That's my concern.
That being said, winter is a write off at my place. So will be leaving regardless.
spongebob59
Journeyman Pro
Another lot went to Littlestone, think they got a 15 month for 12 deal, they live the right side of Canterbury to make the journey easier.
For me to work around school runs, it's just a little too far i think.
I like Littlestone, but do prefer Princes.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Have you sampled the pleasures of our lovely new (couple of years old) 'half-way' hut by the 12th tee? It's grand.
richart
Major Champion
Jacko_G
Blackballed
Some of your green fees quoted for tracks don't actually seem that bad for the quality of course.
I'm not far behind these figures at all.
I'm not far behind these figures at all.
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Not tried your two thirds hut, as it was closed when I last played.
We haven't quite fully sorted out our manning of the hut...and it can often be closed during the week unless there is a society or something on. though there was 50/50 split in whether we should have it - it was funded by a member's loan and got built. And in fact most of us will now stop a short-while - and we have great soup this time of year.
sev112
Tour Winner
Ouch! Bagshot Beds (actually the geologists have changed names of the formations containing the Bagshot Sand, Bracklesham Beds and Barton Sands in the past decade
) are sands predominantly. However the overall sequence of deposits that form the ground that the classic Surrey / Berks great golf courses are built on, are a series of lagoonal and backwater deposits, interdigitated, such that you get patches of predominantly well drained Sandy acidic soils, with occasional very localised areas of clay, which means a complex arrangement of spring lines, and creating the perfect environment for heather and birch and similar to thrive.Windlesham GC sits (conveniently) on the (newly named) Windlesham Formation, which includes sands, clays and silts), but so does Swinley Forest and half of The Berkshire (much of the rest is on the newly named Camberley Sand). There is however some peat deposits towards the bottom of the hill at windlesham which might hold up groundwater flow, especially as it is a quite open course with not so many trees like Swinley and Berkshire.
Wentworth almost totally on the Bagshot SAND, with some river gravels in various places.
Sunningdale, like Berkshire, half and half on Windlesham and Camberley, and possibly why people consider Berkshire and Sunningdale to be “better golf ground” than Wentworth, not least because they represent the mixed soil environment whereas Wentworth is more sandy overall.
West Hill substantially on the Windlesham formation
Woking is on the Bagshot SANDS (like Wentworth) and Worplesdon on both Windlesham Formation and Camberley Sand (like the Berkshire and Sunningdale). Blackmoor (another of our favourites) is a completely different geological age entirely
Downshire (!) southern extents on the (Wentworth) Camberley Sands, but the north half on the very sticky London Clay
East Berks totally on Windlesham formation
Ascot mainly Camberley Sand so should drain pretty well
Mill Ride on the sticky wet London Clay
So, pick your golf course membership by reading a geological map and memoir
Sorry for the opportunity for thread drift
