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Has anyone played this?

I have signed up for a 9 hole night golf comp early next month at chichester, sounds like it should be a laugh, glow in the dark balls, flags etc.
 
I did it several years back and it was absolutely the worst sporting thing I ever have done. It was the middle of summer but exceedingly cold, the balls were awful, you couldn't see anything and I absolutely hated it.

But don't let me put you off!
 
I did it once a few years back, it was a quite surreal experience and is a bit of fun. Its quite strange not being able to see your club. The balls were rubbish and it was possible to hit the glowstick out of them - do that and its game over.
 
My old club tried it once. One bloke teed up on the first, sliced it onto the beach and his game was over. Glow ball was lost. Best played on an open course!
 
I had a laugh with this. Torches need to be banned though, or its a nonsense. It also needs to be truly dark. Twilight doesn't cut it.

My playing partner fell in a fairway bunker we didn't even see coming. It made me giggle.
 
Did it a few years ago and it was great fun. Even more so when two of us sneaked back out on the course and waited until people came up close to us on the course at which point we frightened the hell out of them for a laugh.
 
I played in the dark last night. Having tee'd off at 2.36pm, in our 4BBB matchplay semi-final, we managed to get the 18 holes played by 7.15pm. Then off for sudden death, we played 1 & 18, and then had to call it a night, as it was pitch black.
My opponents were slow play incarnate!

It is good for your game playing in the dark however, it make you play within yourself so you hit it straight and concentrate harder on accuracy rather than length.
 
The competition I mentioned in the OP was last night, my thoughts on night golf are that it is brilliant. The competition format was groups of 4 texas scramble with a shotgun start playing 9 holes. We started and you could just about see, but by the time we walked off the first green it was definitely pitch black, glad I had a trolley to hit any objects before I did as I walked around the course.
I was a bit skeptical about the quality of the balls before we arrived, they were a pretty hard ball, but seemed to fly pretty much the same distance as I would expect from a normal ball. The balls we used had a light manufactured into them and were very bright.

As a group we played very well, ended up -3, should have been -4 but we dropped a shot on a long par 3. We thought this was respectable, but we ended up winning by 2 shots so came away with a dozen titleist dt trusoft each, so all in all a good nights golf.
 
Our attempt at it has been cancelled due to lack of interest, I think the cost put most people off. A shame as it looked like it might have been fun.
 
My elder son does it regularly ; but then the course is floodlit. That is easier to do in countries where there is little or no twilight.
 
I remember once on holiday being the the last group out in a comp.

Birdies the last two holes in the dying light. Didn't even see the last putt drop as the green was lit only by the hotel and pool lights.

A magical experience when you are playing well, feels the stuff of legend. A nightmare if you are not playing well.
 
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