The Problem of Golf at the Ashgrove Golfing Course

Every club golfer usually enjoys their home training course for a amount of motives. They know the nuances of the fairways and greens. They know how very best to assault each and every fairway and green to empower them to rating properly. Likely to a new course usually features bigger challenges than is commonly the circumstance at their residence class. For me as a “hacker”, if I can rating below one particular hundred on a new system, then I would be properly pleased for the reason that as but I have not accomplished that 100 or considerably less on a score card.

But enable me get back to golf at my home system of Ashgrove in Brisbane’s interior west in the shadow of Mt Coot-tha.

Below is what I like about the system.

• It is nestled volume the hills west of the metropolis.
• It has a significant creek pursuing through the class that can present a problem to the newcomer and hacker alike.
• There are four huge ponds/small lakes that arrive into perform for the unwary.
• Each fairway is unique.
• Every single green is a distinctive obstacle. Your putt will often veer toward the watercourses or valleys on the system. Number of greens are not without having a slope in a single or more instructions.
• The similar could be mentioned of each bunker on the program. Some are fairly deep whilst some others guard the eco-friendly a reasonable length absent creating a extended challenging bunker shot to the environmentally friendly specifically for the typical golfer.
• All the fairways are tree lined and, in some scenarios sloped to one particular facet meaning that the golfer desires to aim at placement alternatively than length.
• There are elevated tees, which when taking part in off the back blue marker improve the dynamics of just about every gap, typically generating the gap appear lengthier and additional tricky.
• There are 6 fairways with doglegs, both equally suitable and left in course frequently obscuring the eco-friendly for the next shot leaving the golfer with a choice on where by to place his or her initially and second photographs.
• The most straightforward of the dogleg holes is the 2nd. It curves remaining at about 200 metres from the again markers. The very first shot is up hill over a reasonable way which slopes still left. Any shot as well much remaining possibly operates onto the third fairway or into a placement exactly where big trees power a lay-up shot or a hazardous shot above massive trees to the environmentally friendly. Any tee shot to the top of the increase lets an effortless shot to substantial rather flat green.
• 5 of these doglegs are on the again nine holes of the system.
  • The eleventh gap doglegs to the appropriate from a slender opening in front of the tee. If your shot is brief, it will end up down a slope with no see of the fairway for your following shot. Despite the fact that the shot is blind, the fairway in advance is vast but demands a shot of no extra than 150 metres to be harmless prior to your 3rd shot down a hill to a big inexperienced guarded on the still left and appropriate by large bunkers. The ideal facet bunker is really deep.
  • The twelfth fairway is slim with tree lined creek on its still left and a steep tree lined slope on its ideal. The dogleg goes all-around the creek starting close to 200 metres from the back again tee. If you fail to arrive at the corner of the dogleg, your shot to the eco-friendly is blind as large trees increase together the creek around the bend of the dogleg preventing a direct shot at the green. The green is huge but guarded by bunkers on the remaining front, left side and together the full correct facet of the eco-friendly. If you around hit the green, your ball will lie well beneath the green down toward the creek.
  • The 14^th demands a lengthy uphill initial shot, greatest positioned to the appropriate side of the fairway. Any shot still left will have trees as well as a steep slope avoiding the golfer from likely straight at the green. Your next shot has to contend with the dogleg and need to stay to its appropriate aspect as any shot way too considerably left with roll down a very steep slope producing your next shot really tricky. The eco-friendly has two tiers and is guarded on the still left front by a large deep bunker.
  • The 15^th tee is superior previously mentioned the dogleg which is about 200 metres from the again markers. Most golfers can arrive at the corner to permit a shot at a significant sloped green. Having said that any shot to the ideal will bring the creek into perform or a massive bunker on the correct corner of the environmentally friendly. This is the most straightforward of all the holes with doglegs on the again nine holes.
  • Last but not least, the 16^th hole demands a shot in excess of a hill on to an unseen fairway. Any shot still left will slide down the hill, earning the 2nd shot a great deal for a longer period and over or by some trees. Golfers need to have to goal just left of a big tree previously mentioned the corner of the dogleg to land in the best posture for a extended uphill 2nd shot to an elevated eco-friendly protected at the front by two bunkers, a person of which is really deep.
• The club dwelling is located on a rise overlooking the first and 14^th tees as effectively as the 8^th and 18^th greens with a big balcony in which participate in can be watched.
• The 8^th gap has recently been reshaped to make it a larger problem. The creek crosses the fair way at an angle, like the diagonal of a square. The place of the tee determines the golfer’s to start with shot. Hugh trees on the appropriate of the fairway from the tee to the creek can force the golfer to “lay up” or consider a possibility to fly around the trees and land on the fairway more than the creek in a shorter iron shot of the green. To make the challenge even larger, the big sloped environmentally friendly is guarded by two very deep entrance bunkers. This hole is regarded as a one particular of the signature gap of the course.
• The third hole, a par 3, is nevertheless a further signature gap. Most of the fairway is dominated by a lake. There are big trees down the ideal facet of the lake a steep slope with huge trees some 10 metres on the left of the lake exactly where a golfer can bail out and a 10 metre landing area amongst entrance of the green and the edge of the lake. Quite a few average golfers intention at a paperbark tree in the condition of a “Y” as their bail out position on the still left entrance of the green. This then will allow a small chip to a large two stage green.

Ashgrove golf course is in a relatively stunning location with a terrific wide range of trees, birds, a creeks flowing via the class, four little lakes all surrounded by very low tree included mountains. The training course does have some hilly sections but they just enhance the problem of the class without having tiring out the golfer. The course may possibly be relatively limited but is a obstacle for most golfers. You have to position your shots accurately or experience the consequences. So, if you are a “Brisbanite” or a golfer browsing Brisbane, I obstacle you to play the class and rating beneath one particular hundred on your initially attempt.