Playing Mill Ride, near Ascot Friday, any tips

[HomerJSimpson]

Well that was a waste of time

Didnt play that badly, but lost 4, thats four, FOUR balls that went slightly off the fairway into the leaf litter and simply vanished
My 3 ball lost 7 balls like that and spend a good 30 minutes looking for ones we eventually found.

Liked the course, but it was well boggy in places and really not a winter course in terms of drainage, the greens were really good and the bunkers nice n fluffy.
Rain, Hail and high winds didnt help either.

I printed Foxys hole by hole account but it blew away into a lake on the 3rd
Soz Foxy

Thought it would be damp give the rain. However I thought they'd spent lots on improving that already so it doesn't bode well going into the winter proper. Nor excuse for losing balls just off the fairway. No fun in that and you have to wonder if the green staff can't do something daily on prone holes

 

[PhilTheFragger]

they were using a tractor based blower to blow the leaves off the fairway and onto the rough, rather than removing them

when a ball rolls just off the fairway and into some thickish rough, you dont expect it to roll into under a 3 inch thick carpet of leaves, makes the whole thing a lottery