Vintage Courses

[CarpeDiem]

My home club 'Whipsnade Park' in Hertfordshire is a vintage club that has large amounts of class. Made from flint the club house has a warm aroma that welcomes you in after a usual saturday round. However my argument is should today's Golf Clubs have a modern club house thats ridden with technology or a sleek modern look that looks just right, such as Ashridge or like my home club a vintage look?

What do you think?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

If they are built well and have well maintained surroundings modern clubhouses can look impressive but there is something special about a clubhouse (bit like old cricket pavillions) that just say something about a club

 

[viscount17]

I am playing Whipsnade later this month so I'll let you know.

Like all architecture, the important point is that they sit in the landscape not upon it like a carbuncle.
I was born in a Sussex flint cottage that the council has since rendered - now just looks awful, especially as the old barn remains flint.

 

[USER1999]

New courses get new club houses, simple.

Club houses need to be well designed though. Personaly, and no offense, I think Whipshades club house is a design that just doesn't work on many levels. The bar is too small. the restaurant is the wrong shape (L shaped), the pro shop is an after thought, the car park is too far away, etc.

Neither does Moor parks' palladian mansion. It is too grand and impersonal.

 

[CarpeDiem]

You will see what i mean then, and the flint really works well up at whipsnade it makes the course look exceptional. Are you playing in a society or just a green fee?

 

[GB72]

Part of the issue I find is not the building but the decor. The clubhouse at my course is fine but the interior is like a bar in a Travellodge and so pretty devoid of atmosphere. If they sectioned off part of it as a Spike Bar and filled it with a bit more interesting decor, maybe even a bit of golf memorabilia it would improve it no end.

 

[viscount17]

Society, 36 holes, lunch and dinner