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Brian Scott
Handicap: 2
Essex
Joined: Sep 2013
Posts: 54
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I know that everybody enjoys different types of golf but I was wondering what courses people have found the most difficult to play and score well on and why this is....
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Ian Mullins
Handicap: 20
Essex
Pro Member
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 378
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Hi Brian,
I guess a lot depends on your game? I have a pretty big fade (although getting better) and as such,some courses prove harder than others due to the layout favouring the 'drawer'.....
I also feel the SSS on some courses make a big difference to my potential scoring. However, judging by my scorecard history, it would seem that I always struggle at Woolston Manor (one of the TSG 'preferred' course). 6 out of my last 7 rounds there, I have failed to break the 100 (I didn't know this till now).
So why would this one course, be such an issue for me...if anyone can tell me, I would love to know!
Ian M
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Russell Middlet...
Handicap: 36
Essex
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 387
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SAND, SAND, SAND, Ian!
Woolston Manor has plenty of bunkers, so it could be you are struggling to get out of them.
If you did not go in the bunkers then I cannot help you.....
For me at the moment it's any course where there is trouble on the left (pull hooking at the moment!)
So it would have to be my home course, the Abbotts at Stapleford Abbotts GC. Most holes have OOB's or trouble on the left.
Seen my handicap from a 12 to a 15 over the last two years.
Had a lesson and it seems to have sorted my pull hook so things should get better.
Russ
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Daryl Fenton
Handicap: 12
essex
Joined: Nov 2012
Posts: 40
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without doubt the hardest courses for me are links courses especially ones on the coast when theres some wind blowing end up trying to hit the ball too hard into the wind too soft with the wind and become so wayward its untrue, its supposed to be a true test of golf but im not to sure thats correct, give me a nice parkland anyday
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Steve 'The Powe...
Handicap: 21
Essex
Pro Member
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 288
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Perhaps the most difficult course I have played... Addington Palace, where it was just about impossible for me to play any second shot off a level lie... Tight, twisty, loads of sidehill lies, trees all over the place and it ook me 4 rounds over time to get to know it... Even then I only scored 34 pts (enough to win my society day by a long way though) so I guess others found it tricky as well..
I also struggled at Red LIbbets - but that was in my earlier golfing days,I may have improved a little since then, so should really go back and see...
I do like links style course though, the opportunity to play all sorts of knockdown, 'trick' shots and where a good short game comes into its own. I wish mine was better...
All other courses I get to seem to have odd holes which lend themselves to my low power style of play...
Hmmm... Woolston Manor seems to have sand at just the wrong places for me... so no need for my trusty 'Sand Nav' at that course.
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Matt Sutton
Handicap: 23
Surrey
Pro Member
Joined: Sep 2011
Posts: 10
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All courses that have lots of trees are difficult when you don't hit the fairways! Well they are to me at the moment :(
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,955
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I struggle on courses where there are lots of trees either side of the fairway. I try and play Woburn once a year and find that just looking at the trees puts the fear of god into me...and then I hit my ball into them anyway.
Links courses on a windy day. Usually turns into a slog but a heck of a challenge. Perranporth in Cornwall is my favourite up until now.
The thing is though. If a course is to 'easy', the challenge is diminished and the course very quickly becomes boring.
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Steve Diamon
Handicap: 14
Essex
Pro Member
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 11
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i love a cheap one that bits back...(golf only)... Tilgate Forest
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Gary Archer
Handicap: 19
London
Pro Member
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 10
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I think Silvermere in Weybridge is my favourite difficult course:
* Plays a bit longer than most, at 6000 yards and par 70 - especially outside of summer
* Huge intimidating pine trees put your shots under pressure
* Wild shots usually result in a lost ball or a hack or two out of the rough, which is penal in places
* Plenty of water and a dramatic finish with both the 17th and 18th over water
It's a proper golf course though and I've always enjoyed playing there, despite some bad scores. I try to take the SES back there a couple of times a year.
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Andy (fingers c...
Handicap: 13
Essex
Joined: Jun 2009
Posts: 63
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Hi guys and ladies, for me it is usually length of the course as not a long hitter of the ball, especially when the driver isn't involved. Being a shorter hitter makes me a little straighter, and on a good day, I can carve up a short course at times.
What probably makes a harder course though I guess, (because I miss so many greens!), would be the areas around the greens and sand being in the bunkers, (I still think if in a boot print in a bunker it shoulc be pick, rake and place), and whether the short game shots are tougher, as I rely on my chipping and putting to keep the score ticking over.
I should score better at Panshanger for instance, apart from being a decent course, the areas around the greens can be awful due to lack of grass etc
I'd like to try a bit more linx golf, as I have been called Travinoesque in the past, I do enjoy the challange of a course and finding different ways to solve the problems placed before me on the course.
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