Your perfect golf course

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If you were asked to design your perfect golf club, what would you include?
Wide and easy or long and tough?
Parkland or links?
Water or bunkers?
Halfway house?
Old fashione c/house or new with pool, tennis spa etc
etc etc
 
I think I would just have a standard lengthed course, not stupidly long, or really short either. Would definitely have maybe 4 or 5 different tees to play off for people who really wanted to test themselves. Also would try to avoid holes where you automatically take a driver.

My course would be parkland and treelined. I would like a mixture of water and bunkers, but perhaps having a lake with 3/4 holes around it would be a viable option.

Definitely have a half way house, that is open all the time. Not just at weekends! And I would prefer a modern clubhouse hat included a gym and a steam room.

Also, I would want fantastic practice facilities.
 
Does it have to be one or the other, why not a mix of holes, playing surface, challenges. maybe 3-nines of links, parkland and heath. It would need some elevation changes as well and a drop of water never goes amiss.

Location: Coastal, but fringed with forested slopes

Halfway house - definitely,

Old style c/house but modernised

totally separate practice/teaching facilities (not where overhit/miss-hit shots can impact the course)
 
I love courses that punish you from a wayward shot, nothing more frustrative than hitting a bullet straight drive, iron in, chip and 2 puts for a bogey (example) for someone in the group to spray a drive acorss the other side of the next fairway, play a blinder of a recovery in, 2 putts and win the hole.

Im also an example of player 2 and it doesnt give the same satisfaction in winning the hole from a wayward flyer off the tee, i love courses featuring water, and i would have mine ideally having teh round pass via the clubhouse on the 9th/10th for people wishing for a break through tieredness to let faster player through or stop for a social beer before hitting the rest of the course.
 
Start and end on a good driving hole not a par 3 or a hole with a ditch about 250 -270 yards.
Parkland with loads of trees and waters.
No random links holes thrown in or random different style holes.
A short par 3 less than 160 yards requiring you to hit the green or you in real trouble like a 6 foot deep bunker at the front.
Around 6500 -7000 yards.
Halfway house selling Cold drinks, tasty snacks and new balls.
And a dress code in the club house.
 
6700 ish
Tree lined
Changes in elevation
Mix of strategic and bombing holes
No 230yd par 3s
1/2 way house of Sunningdale standard
Relaxed clubhouse enviroment
Two loops that start by the clubhouse.

You building a track then Bob?? :D
 
A links course with penal rough and fairway bunkers. Every tee-shot would require thinking about, no just grip it and rip it style holes.

Accuracy should be rewarded and innacuracy punished.

I would like to see risk/reward holes where the fairway is a 220yd carry or 150yd lay-up.

A mix of par 3's from 220yds to 140yds with the shorter having trouble a'plenty where if you miss the green, a par should be out of reach without a miracle.

Multi-tiered greens, allows creativity and prevents anywhere on the green meaning a simple 2-putt par.

A clubhouse with excellent catering, dress-standards, decent locker rooms and gym facilities.

A halfway house where a bit of grub and a hot/cold drink can be bought along with any essentials such as balls, tee's, gloves.
 
A links course with penal rough and fairway bunkers. Every tee-shot would require thinking about, no just grip it and rip it style holes.

Accuracy should be rewarded and innacuracy punished.

I would like to see risk/reward holes where the fairway is a 220yd carry or 150yd lay-up.

A mix of par 3's from 220yds to 140yds with the shorter having trouble a'plenty where if you miss the green, a par should be out of reach without a miracle.

Multi-tiered greens, allows creativity and prevents anywhere on the green meaning a simple 2-putt par.
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You would be off 28 and the ladies tees Jon
:D
 
Jon, what you are looking for is Royal County Down.

Sadly, you wouldn't break 100 round there on a good day. I'm not sure I did either, despite starting birdie, par, par. It is a brutally hard golf course.

Ok for once in a while, but not every day.

I would take my home track over most I have played. Not easy, not hard, plenty of trees, forgiving fairways just wide enough, long enough, good mix of holes, nice club house, course in good nick, etc. Happy to play there over and over too. No water though. Not sure it needs it, but I do like to see a bit of the wet stuff sometimes.

The only issue is the order of the holes. We have 13 out, and 5 back, no half way house, and no return to the club house during the round.

As previously mentioned, we could do with a snooker room.
 
Jon, what you are looking for is Royal County Down.

Sadly, you wouldn't break 100 round there on a good day. I'm not sure I did either, despite starting birdie, par, par. It is a brutally hard golf course.



I would totally agree. I played RCD on Tuesday and I have never seen it looking as good, beautifully manicured and the quality of the greens are unbelievable, adding in the views it was sublime. I went round 14 over and felt as if I played really well.
The only downside is you nearly have to expect at least 4 1/2 hour rounds.
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