Worst weather you have played in?

[NWJocko]

This! Brilliant weekend, superb course, but that Sunday was brutal! The Si 1 hole was a par 5 and was a drive and a 6 iron to the front of the green on Saturday. On Sunday was driver, 5 wood, 5 wood and I was still 25 yards short of the green....

Aberdovey was ridiculous really.

Like you say the wind completely switched round aswell. Hole I remember is the par 3 in the corner to the green up on a shelf (12th?).

First day I hit a sand wedge, on the Sunday I hit a 6 iron and they were pretty much in exactly the same spot on the green!

On the sunday I hit a 4 wood from about 140 yards into a green aswell.

Never been so glad to get off a golf course!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Played Bude & North Cornwall in gale force winds and rain. The flag on the par 3, the 4th I think from memory was actually touching the green. How it didn't snap at the angle it was at was hard to fathom. Grim but we completed all eighteen.

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

Last year we played in a H4H Texas Scramble at Maesdu in Llandudno. For the first fifteen holes we had 70+mph winds together with horizontal rain and hail. Then all of a sudden it completely cleared, no wind and blue skies, a bit like Brendy's picture.Most teams had called it a day long before the end but we stuck it out and were the first group who came in under par gross (-1). Two groups started just as the bad weather cleared so guess who took the top two spots.

 

[palindromicbob]

If the weather hasn't been bad enough to close a course I've played in pretty much everything you could think of at least once.

Worst was gale force gusts with snow, hail, sleet, surprisingly nice sunny spells & torrential rain all in the same round.

 

[hines57]

Boxing day, sub-zero, hail stones and howling a gale. Mad or dedicated - I'm still not sure!! Certainly cleared the head!

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Society weekend a few years back at Troon, playing the Portland Course on the Sunday, hideous wind and rain, one of those days were there is no way on this earth you'd of gone out to play if it wasn't for the fact of the location and we weren't in a position to re-arrange. 44 started, 8 finished 18 holes. Next day we played Royal Troon, wind was as bad, but rain had gone.

 

[davemc1]

up there would have to be SI 1 at Glasgow Gails last year, Snow, Hail, Rain and wind so strong none of our drives went more than 100 yards.

I'm glad someone said this, It was too tough for an English softie like me!

 

[garyinderry]

Played 9 holes one Friday evening at portsallon. The rain and wind was beyond stupid. As we were playing the 2nd, everyone on the course was making their way in no doubt laughing at us heading out into the unknown. Clubs were slipping out of hands. It was completely pointless. Sliced drives were going so far right it wasn't worth going looking for them.

In the end we played a scramble between us just to get a crumb of fun out of the experience.

 

[ChrisB0210]

I've played in just about every type of weather as my home course only closes when the weather is really bad/wet much like we've had recently.

The worse ones rain wise would be a couple of friendly matches, one at home in 2014 where it rained all evening, with the sun finally coming out as we played the second last hole. The course was so wet that the holes doubled as ball washers!

Last year we had a couple of friendlies that were badly affected by the weather. We had one at home in late April when we had a 10 minute hailstorm to start with, fortunately that cleared once it had soaked us all and made us freezing cold. We had an away match where it started raining heavily on the second and was accompanied by strong winds. We walked in after 10 that evening.

Played a winter league 3 years ago in sleet and snow, course ended up with a bit of a covering. Made chipping and putting hard work, but not as hard as finding balls as nobody had anything other than white balls in their bags that day!

At the opposite end of the scale, I played a club knockout at the end of June last year on what was the hottest day of summer. Very warm and sticky, not pleasant at all.

 

[IanM]

40 degrees Celsius playing Bonville in NSW and running out of cold beers.

I am there in November.... is it any good? (Attending a wedding but looking to play golf too obviously!)

 

[Andy]

I am there in November.... is it any good? (Attending a wedding but looking to play golf too obviously!)

It's amazing, you will love it. Fully recommend a buggy though.

The course is beautiful, stunning condition and some of the best holes I've played.

Extremely jealous 😁 😂 enjoy yourself.

 

[Hosel Fade]

Some junior league southern region final for the teams who finished well in their leagues about 12 years ago and it was at Merrist Wood.

Course unplayable before we even started, standing water everywhere, did not have decent waterproofs at the time. Constant heavy rain and wind of about 20mph on top of that, just a horrible day. Guessing they kept it playing because its impossible to organise a replacement day or do anything apart from say "have a round around your own course and send us the scores, please be honest" to see who gets sent to the final proper.

Just awful

 

[Tashyboy]

Played our course earlier this year the wind, rain and sleet were horrendous. ( me coat worked well that day&#128513 anyway one of the lads walked off on the fifth. Playing the 8th one of the lads slipped down a bit of a banking with his clubs on his back. He swore for a minute and walked off with his back caked in mud.
About 20 seconds later the biggest ever snowflake blew in my ear hole and gave me the biggest ever brain freeze you could imagine. At that point I walks in.