Southerness Golf Club, Sunday 2nd September 12

[thecraw]

The welcome board at Southerness.

The first cut of rough, 2nd hole.

Approach to the 3rd green.

Short of the par 3 4th, I was in the right hand bunker.

Approaching the 8th, shortest par 4 of 370 yards.

Looking back down the 8th into the sun.

The view from the 9th tee.

The approach to the 11th green.

11th green looking out to the Solway Firth.

Signature 12th hole.

On the 12th green.

Putting out on the 12th green.

Another view of the 12th green with the bay behind.

Approach to the 458 yard 14th.

A view back over the back 9 from the 16th tee.

Another general view, this time looking back at the 11th.

Not happy on 16! (check out that divot - with a 3 wood! haha)

Looking back down 18 into the setting sun.

Daylight gone behind the Galloway Hills.




Fabulous golf course, a must play in my opinion.

 

[Qwerty]

I've always had a soft spot for Southerness. Along with Royal Lytham it's definately the Toughest course I've played. Nice area too, I've been thinking about a weekend in Kippford, a bit further up the Colvend coast.

 

[DelB]

That looks stunning, Craw.

 

[Qwerty]

How did you score Craw?
Last time I played it the fairways were rock hard so I was taking irons of every tee, I thought I played pretty well yet still came in with 91 playing off 10.
Taking driver off the tee with the amount of gorse lining them fairways was frightening. All the gorse was in bloom at the time, the course looked stunning
Very underrated IMO.

 

[bladeplayer]

Lovely pics craw , them bunkers look like the gobble up anyballs going near them , wouldnt say you be playing a low iron out of them either ..

not a links fan but looks a nice track

 

[HighPostPinger]

The only time I played there it was just like that..........except we had a howling gale, low cloud and horizontal rain.

Mind you, I almost had a hole-in-one at the short par 3 10th; my ball was plugged on the edge of the hole and deformed the cup! Had to wait another 29 years for my first hole-in-one which happened 3 weeks ago:clap:.

 

[Jdb2005]

Great pics, hopefully have many a rounds there this spring,summer,autumn & winter