A great day out

You all know here on Sports Talk Social already that I am sports mad, and that the only thing I like more than watching Sports is playing Sports. Sure watching sports is great, and I love to watch Arsenal, Ireland and Galway United play soccer, Galway play the Irish traditional sports of Hurling and Gaelic football or watch Ireland play rugby, and we are actually the world number one team at the moment, following our historic grand slam win and brilliant recent wins over the usual world number one team New Zealand. The great thing about that is that it is a World Cup year, so everyone in Ireland is really hoping that we give it a right old go this year, but we have a tough group with Scotland, South Africa, Romania and Tonga, so it will not be plain sailing.

This post is not meant to about rugby though, or soccer or GAA, it is about golf and about a really nice track that I played recently called New Forest Golf Club.

Here is the view that greets you as you drive in the front gate.

They host weddings here sometimes, as you can see they have a nice little courtyard as you walk towards the pro shop.

Here are some of the local sponsors of the golf club, which I thought was a nice touch by them.

Finally here is the view from the first tee box, which is a nice par 4, with trouble down both the left and right sides, I pulled my drive badly right, so had to play my 3rd shot from the tee, which is never a good way to start a round of golf, but I managed to par the second ball, so had a 6 to start, which was not bad considering I had a lost ball.

A Peak around the course

I must say I was very impressed overall with the course and particularly the greens which were in exceptional condition and were very undulating, leaving me with lots of breaking putts which is always a good challenge. There is a certain Augusta like feel to some of the holes at New Forest, as you can end up with left or right lying lies, as well as downhill and uphill lies, such is the nature of the undulating drumlin based terrain of the course.

Here are some of the photos from around the course. Starting off with this one on the eight green. I hit a tasty drive down the middle of the fairway and then hit my second from 167 yards into the wind with my 6 iron and left it around six feet for birdie.

Did I make the putt? Of course I made the putt!! Ha ha, lucky enough there was no break so I could stroke it in nice and firm into the back of the hole.

The ninth is a really quirky par 3 hole, playing around 120 yards, it is index 18 and it is inside a walled garden, which is quite something. Here is the archway into that hole.

This is the green inside the walled garden.

I really enjoyed playing here and managed to get 29 points, which was not bad considering I lost 5 golf balls, yes 5 golf balls!! The rough is extremely high here and if you pull it left or right, it is game over for your golf ball!

The photos used are all my own captured on my trusty Samsung smart phone

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Peace out.

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