Goring and Streatley GC is a parkland style course in Streatley on Thames, Berkshire!
The course opened in xxxxx!
The course was designed by Harry Colt!
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The course is a par 71 off the white and yellow tees and a par 72 off the ladies red tees!
The SSSs are 71, 70 and 72 respectively!
The course yardages are 6,355, 6,008 and 5,543 respectively!
I/we played off the yellow tees!
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The round opens with a short par 4,gentle dogleg right, with 2 pot bunkers each side of the fairway, with a downhill approach shot to a multi-tier green, with back bunkers right and left!
Thereafter, holes 2 - 4 are 3 consecutive seriously uphill holes which are difficult and an ordeal!
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The greens....
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The par 3s
The outturn score for the par 3s was +4, ie 2 pars, a bogey and a triple bogey! After allowing 1 shot this was +3 shots too many! All on the same hole, ie the 9th! A bunkered tee shot followed by 3 putts! A blip!
#4: a 127 yards uphill tee shot to a blind green, bunkers front right and left!
#9: 131 yards to a green surrounded by 3 bunkers!
#12: 136 yards, index 18, to a green surrounded by 5 bunkers!
#16: 191 yards, index 10, a long tee shot to a green with bunkers front right and left!
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The par 4s
My outturn score for the par 4s was +11, ie 4 pars, 4 bogeys, 2 doubles and a triple bogey!
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The par 5s
My outturn score for the 3 par 5s was +4, ie 2 bogeys and a double bogey!
#5: 458 yards, index 11!
#15: 484 yards, index 4! A sweeping left to right to a rectangular shape green! A bogey was a good score!
#17: 509 yards, index 14! A high level tee shot sweeping left to right to a sloping fairway, and an approach to a green with no bunkers, but a steep drop of a few feet to an upwards sloping green!
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Weekday visitors green fees are £0000!
I entered their annual Seniors Open Stableford competition! The £0000 entry fee included.....
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The post game meal was an excellent ham, egg and chips!
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The members were wonderful hosts! The disappointment for them was the low competition entry! Much reduced from previous years!
Possibly the severity of some of the front 9 holes make this a much less attractive proposition for Seniors golfers, especially if the competition clashes with another not too far away!
I'd be very happy to play the course again if using a buggy; but I won't be entering their competition again!
Date Tuesday, 17, September 2019
