virtuocity
Tour Winner
As some of you know, I'm searching for my first golf membership and I like the flexibility that 9 hole courses give me and they seem to be a heck of a lot cheaper as well!
I phoned Playsport East Kilbride today after I found out that my usual 9 hole was shut due to frost. I was annoyed to find out (particularly after another forum member championed Playsport for being completely open all the time
) that they were open but on winter greens.
Luckily though, I called back an hour later to find the greens were open and I went straight round for a hit.
Cost
Cost for 9 holes was £10, which was an 'Afternoon Special Offer'.
The Course
A very short track. There is only one par 5 (at 444 yards, even short hitters like me can make an easy par) with a few medium length par 3s and 4s througout your 2087 yard journey. A couple of 120 yard par 3s are good fun to play, but I feel these holes were built with acreage restrictions in mind, rather than to save the tired legs of their older clientèle.
Every hole's information plaque proudly displays the name of its more famous 'sister hole'- the designers took inspiration from world-famous landmark holes to help them design this track. NB: they are very careful to say inspiration rather than duplication.
Condition
Hats off to Playsport for keeping the course running despite of the hard frost. The ground had some 'give' in it and wasn't overly-hard. Equally, there were no squelchy patches either, however my improving game kept me in the short-stuff for the majority. Saying that though, the course is full of hills and mounds and not knowing the course I did find myself in 'hidden' rough a couple of times and they were nice to play out of.
The Round (if you care)
Not knowing the course made for a difficult day, but I managed to pull out some good shots and ended up with a bogey-golf scorecard. I landed my tee shot at the last within a foot of the hole. Would have been nice to have snagged my first ace.
Opinions
Some nice holes and a brilliant membership proposition should have made me more excited going round than I was. Everything felt a bit cramped- the course sandwiched into what feels like a small field. The traffic from the main road coupled by the sight of the ugly main building did nothing to make you feel like you were out in the county.
Of course, you're in the middle of a large town and not in blissful rural Scotland, but I still want my golf to feel like an escape of sorts and I didn't feel that here.
I came off the course having enjoyed my round, enjoyed the challenges set by each hole and hoped that I would be able to play the course again sometime. Tellingly, I don't think I was too fussed as to when that next Heritage Links round would be.
The search for my 'Golf Home' continues, but Playsport will always be there should I need a little break from the norm.
I phoned Playsport East Kilbride today after I found out that my usual 9 hole was shut due to frost. I was annoyed to find out (particularly after another forum member championed Playsport for being completely open all the time
) that they were open but on winter greens.Luckily though, I called back an hour later to find the greens were open and I went straight round for a hit.
Cost
Cost for 9 holes was £10, which was an 'Afternoon Special Offer'.
The Course
A very short track. There is only one par 5 (at 444 yards, even short hitters like me can make an easy par) with a few medium length par 3s and 4s througout your 2087 yard journey. A couple of 120 yard par 3s are good fun to play, but I feel these holes were built with acreage restrictions in mind, rather than to save the tired legs of their older clientèle.
Every hole's information plaque proudly displays the name of its more famous 'sister hole'- the designers took inspiration from world-famous landmark holes to help them design this track. NB: they are very careful to say inspiration rather than duplication.
Condition
Hats off to Playsport for keeping the course running despite of the hard frost. The ground had some 'give' in it and wasn't overly-hard. Equally, there were no squelchy patches either, however my improving game kept me in the short-stuff for the majority. Saying that though, the course is full of hills and mounds and not knowing the course I did find myself in 'hidden' rough a couple of times and they were nice to play out of.
The Round (if you care)
Not knowing the course made for a difficult day, but I managed to pull out some good shots and ended up with a bogey-golf scorecard. I landed my tee shot at the last within a foot of the hole. Would have been nice to have snagged my first ace.
Opinions
Some nice holes and a brilliant membership proposition should have made me more excited going round than I was. Everything felt a bit cramped- the course sandwiched into what feels like a small field. The traffic from the main road coupled by the sight of the ugly main building did nothing to make you feel like you were out in the county.
Of course, you're in the middle of a large town and not in blissful rural Scotland, but I still want my golf to feel like an escape of sorts and I didn't feel that here.
I came off the course having enjoyed my round, enjoyed the challenges set by each hole and hoped that I would be able to play the course again sometime. Tellingly, I don't think I was too fussed as to when that next Heritage Links round would be.
The search for my 'Golf Home' continues, but Playsport will always be there should I need a little break from the norm.
some good holes none the less
