Chelsfield Lakes Golf Club

Advantages: Challenging but accessible course for mid handicappers
Disadvantages: Not hard enough for better players and not the best course in the area

...Chelsfield Lakes Golf Club 'A good walk spoiled' is how one man once described golf but he was obviously a fool as there are few better ways to pass the time than by playing this most majestic of sports. In my part of the world we are spoilt for choice when it comes to courses and there are ones to suit all standards and pockets. Chelsfield Lakes is a pleasant pay and play course that will satisfy most golfers from beginners to good players. Very low handicappers may not find it enough of a challenge but for us mere mortals it has more than enough to keep us interested without ruining our confidence. The lakes of the title is bit misleading as there are only two on the course. One is far to the left of the 16th and doesn't come into play but the other is large and runs between the 9th and 18th fairways and most definitely comes...

brereton66 10.11.2007 · Read review
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Great golf clubs at a great price!

Advantages: decent clubs, very cheap
Disadvantages: the lowest iron is a 5 iron

...happy and couldn't quite believe that they cost just £57.99 and this included the bag too! I went straight to the local driving range and hit about 100 balls using most of the clubs and was delighted with them. I have since played about eight rounds of golf with the clubs and they feel great. The set is designed for novice / intermediate players and the clubs have enlarged heads to guarantee that you should hit the ball with more accuracy, which helps when you are just starting out. The set comprises of a 3 wood driver, a hybrid club which is the equivalent of a 2 or 3 iron, a 5 iron, 6 iron, 7 iron, 8 iron, 9 iron, pitching wedge and sand wedge. Of all the clubs I find the 9 iron and the 6 irons the easiest to use, with the hybrid club the most difficult - probably because it is quite long and this would emphasis floors in you're swing...

beanie8844 16.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Chicago SGS Mens Golf Complete Set

Kileen Golf Club, KILDARE

Advantages: Gorgeous scenary, great for golfers
Disadvantages: Must be a member to enjoy it all!

...KILLEEN GOLF CLUB Killenbeg, Kill, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. 18 hole Parkland Course Par 72 Yardage 7121 SSS 73 **Directions to the course** Killeen is situated near Kill, just off the N7. To get to the golf course from the M50 moterway, take the N7 turn off at the Red Cow roundabout. Follow the Naas road past Rathcoole and take the right turn at Kill junction traffic lights. You then continue over the Straffan road for approximately 1/2 mile and take the first left turn (sign posted for Killeen). Continue on this road for a further 1/2 mile and the entrance to the Killeen Golf Club is on the left hand side. **Further Information** Secretary : Maurice Kelly Club and trolley hire. Practice and some catering facilities. Tel: 045-866003 Fax: 045-875881 Email:admin@killeengc.ie Membership is...

Evil_Irish_Twin 06.11.2004 · Read review
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Boat of Garten Golf Club

Advantages: Stunning scenery, Not too long
Disadvantages: Narrow tree-lined fairways, Irons must be accurate

...Boat of Garten truely is one of Scotlands hidden gems, and without doubt deserves to be recognised as the finest Highlands course. Starting out, the golfer is not too enthralled by the first hole, which is an unremarkable par-3. But from the second hole onwards, one becomes aware of the majesty of 'The Boat'. The second has a lovely meandering fairway leading to a wide green, and a drive to the left handside of the fairway offers the best chance of getting the ball close. The third hole is a tricky par-3 with danger both short and long. Under club and you will be hacking out of heavy gorse, over club and you will be down near the tracks of the delightful steam train that runs alongside the first 4 holes. The fourth is a genuine par-5, with large humps that will hide the path to the green. Stay left to get the best approach...

Nickmanfish 21.05.2003 · Read review
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Good Golf Doesn't HAVE To Be Expensive

Advantages: Marvellous course and facilities. Very inexpensive.
Disadvantages: Not a lot.

...~ ~ You might be forgiven for thinking that golf here in Ireland has become an extremely expensive pastime over the last decade or so. Many courses, which were previously fairly accessible and cheap to play, have raised the price of a green fee to ridiculously high levels to cash in on the booming economy and the huge influx of tourists to the shores of the “Emerald Isle”. Even if you are lucky enough to be a member of a golf club, many clubs have acted in similar vein, raising their annual subscriptions to the point where you nearly need to take out a second mortgage to afford to play there. BRIEF HISTORY OF HOLLYSTOWN ~ ~ Back in the early 1990’s a few farsighted entrepreneurs foresaw the growing demand for golf at a reasonable price from the general public, and began to open “pay as you play”...

the_mad_cabbie 01.07.2003 · Read review
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Review of Hollystown Golf Club

Murder at the Golf Club

Advantages: Unusual but good well thought out story
Disadvantages: major characters were weak

...overheard discussing the murder in the locker room by Betty Russell some rime afterwards. She tells her husband Barry who tells her not to tell the Police. This sets of a chain of events that will affect the whole Golf Club and those involved in it in murder, mystery and intrigue. My thoughts on the book: I must admit I did enjoy reading this novel. I found it well thought out and certainly very different from what I was expecting. It was a good mystery that leads the reader down an avenue you would not expect, certainly when you read the summary of it. As a result of this at no time did I really know where the author was taking me but I enjoyed the trip. Having never heard or indeed read any of this authors books I really wasn?t sure what to expect and I must admit I was pleasantly surprised and impressed by her work. I found...

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Review of Dead Centre - Claire Lorrimer

REAL HISTORICAL GOLF - HICKORY CLUBS AND ALL

Advantages: So much history surrounding it
Disadvantages: Lack of catering facilities attached to the course but plenty in the vicinity

...HISTORY Musselburgh Old Course Golf Links is the oldest course in the world still in play and if you fancy a game with hickory clubs, then this is the place to come. It is reputed that Mary Queen of Scots played here in 1567 although the earliest tangible evidence only goes back to 1672. This course is steeped in history and has been attributed with various honours. The diameter of the hole (4.25 inches) is one such distinction as it was the size of the cutting implement used at Musselburgh and the R&A made the size mandatory in 1893. Don’t you sometimes wish they had used something just a bit bigger? It’s also reputed that the Brassie wood (a metal soled club) was invented here to enable golfers to play back to the course from the main road (A1) running along one side (after they had sliced their shots of course...

Scotslady 07.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Musselburgh Old Course Golf Links

  Roman Decadence

Advantages: Superb golf course. Fantastic facilities. Reasonably priced.
Disadvantages: Not a whole lot!

...at ?87.80 for a single person (in a double room) and rising to only ?134.28 for a suite for four people. Next time we visit Rome this will be my first choice of accommodation. ~ ~ Even the price of the golf itself is not overly expensive for a course of this standard and quality. The published green fees vary between ?80 and ?120 per round to play the Championship course. There is a smaller, par-64 course available as well, which you can play for only ?40 per round. The course is closed to visitors every Tuesday, by the way. The price of a golf buggy is ?70 per round. Of course, I used my journalist qualifications in order to obtain a small "discount" (heh, heh) and managed to get both the round of golf plus the buggy for only ?100 all in. ~ ~ To get to the Marco Simone Golf Club you take the "Grande Raccordo Anulare G.R.A." (ring...

the_mad_cabbie 21.12.2003 (06.12.2008) · Read review
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Review of Golf Club Marco Simone

For Golf Nuts Everywhere

Advantages: Superbly edited and written. Full of interesting features.
Disadvantages: Blasted throw away adverts.

...on New Year?s Day 2008. So come 2008 lots of golfers will be running around with VERY expensive lumps of totally useless titanium in their golf bags, as the clubs will no longer be legal. (Not the mad cabbie, I?m glad to say!) ~ ~ Another interesting feature in this month?s edition is about ?lob wedges?. These are fairly new clubs with lots of loft that have been designed for use around the green for short pitch shots, with the ability to get the golf ball in the air very quickly, and land it softly on the putting surface. (Hopefully close to the hole. Heh, heh) These clubs are now seemingly being used more and more by the top players to replace the traditional ?sand wedge?, the club that is used by most golfers to hit a shot from a greenside bunker. (Sand trap) But as the bunker technique for the two shots (sand wedge and lob wedge) is...

the_mad_cabbie 22.02.2004 · Read review
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Review of Golf World

Don't Fall Off The Cliffs!

Advantages: Nice layout. Friendly. Easy on the eye. Good facilities.
Disadvantages: A wee bit easy by modern-day standards.

...~ ~ Woodbrook Golf Club is one of the institutions of Irish golf. It was founded back in 1926, and is perched on the soaring cliff tops overlooking the Irish Sea between the villages of Shankhill in Co.Dublin and Bray in Co. Wicklow. I have personally played Woodbrook on countless occasions. Many of my golfing friends and buddies are members of this prestigious old course, and one is even an ex-Captain of the club. My golfing season wouldn't be complete without a round or two at Woodbrook, which is generally made even more enjoyable by the fact that it's a course that I generally play well on, and which holds many happy memories for me in terms of trophies won and good scores achieved. ~ ~ As you approach Woodbrook up the long tree-lined drive to the clubhouse you immediately realise that here is a club that is steeped in history...

the_mad_cabbie 30.09.2007 · Read review
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