It may be a surprise to many members but actually I have a few friends outside of the Christchurch Golf Club one of whom recently visited New York and had the pleasure of playing Bethpage Black his report follows:
Today we played at Bethpage black golf course. Wow what a golf course and a public golf course to boot. It was in fantastic condition with the greens, bunkers and fairways in immaculate condition. Not bad for a place that has in excess of 60,000 rounds a year (and is closed for two months during winter). My lasting impression was of huge numbers of Oak Trees and a massive expanse of bunkers on every hole. The rough was particularly difficult with gnarly matted grass.
Anyway today was spent going to, playing and coming back from golf. It took 3 change of trains in the subway to get to Penn station to catch the train to Long Island and then a walk and a friendly person on the footpath gave us a lift to the golf course (only a mile to the gate then 2 miles to the Clubhouse). We then had a wait of a few hours to play and the office ladies tried everything they could to get us on earlier but with no luck. You are required to report an hour before tee off otherwise you are scratched from the draw (you fall off the computer automatically and your time is reallocated). On payment of the green fees a bracelet is attached to your wrist which is then cut off on the first tee.
Like Shirley you are required to cross the road for holes 2 - 14 but by way of a tunnel. To give you an idea of difficulty the Women's Slope index is 152. We played with 2 accountants, (everyone is placed in fours to maximise the use of the course) , - very nice guys and one of them drove us all the way back to our apartment - about 40 or 50 miles. It was really good today to see lots of trees and green grass after the 10 days of steel concrete and skyscrapers!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment