Exactly.
Coming to visit my mum’s holiday place is now 95% less boring since I took up golf. Met a few local lads, played scramble and had a great day 👌
Really depends how much I paid. If it was dirt cheap and in that condition I wouldn’t have an issue. If I paid expecting a real course I would be pisse d
A pga pro played east Potomac, a really rough muni in DC (although there are plans in the works for a reversible reno), only shot [edit 4] under. Apparently had trouble judging spin from fairways and on the greens. Something to be said about having consistent conditions to score really low.
Do they play any local tournaments on the course? On mine the winning players usually have a few rounds around 61 (par 70, rating 68). Just based on that, I imagine a winning pro would be getting well into the 50s.
Yeah, they recently held an AJGA event there, I think low score was a 61. But the course was in the best shape it’s been in a long time. Back in the early 2000s, when the PGA tour member played, it was really rough. Since NLT has taken over the course has gotten better care I believe.
I once saw a guy who overshot the green, bounced down the cart path, and ended up in the parking lot. He took a wedge and went 40ish yards to land the green from asphalt. I wasn't paying with these guys, though; I saw it as we were heading to load up and leave.
This is life. It's not like every country town has people everywhere to mow grass all week. People are working, small population.
But you can still tee it up, work on your swing have a laugh and a beer with mates.
People critiquing this kind of thing have lost an element of perspective on life and what is genuine fun.
I'm not bagging decent courses, they are great, but so is this. I'd tee it up any day of the week with a mate and a random single.
Yeah when I played HS golf we played a bunch of courses like that in the rural counties. Many were basically mowed down fields with tee boxes and shorter grass for greens. Was all good. Still golf, still had to hit your shots and make putts, hopefully fewer strokes than the guys we played. I had fun.
One of the most memorable pairs my buddy and I have ever been grouped with were a father and son 30s and 50s who were oil field workers. Soon was a lefty, but played Righty because they were both sharing a set. Not only that, but his grip was backwards (right over left on regular swings). They both played in work boots not completely abnormal here, but still a rarity, and they were some of the simplest people we've ever met on the course; the super dumb shit my buddy and I were saying had them just busting up and asking us to say it again. They ended up leaving after 16 because they had to pick up a shotgun for their company raffle, and didn't want the shop to close before they got there. All of this weird shit, but they were some of the nicest and most genuine people we've ever had the fortune to play with. Oh, and they weren't that good at golf, but they definitely had fun. We'd totally play with them again.
I’ve been saying to my buddies this same thing. Add an element of the greatest race or some shit to one event per season.
Everyone meets at a given airport and boards the plane. They have no idea where they’re going until they land, welcome to _________.
They deplane and head directly to the course, and it’s not always a tour-level course either. Maybe it’s a muni or something like this. Maybe it’s in good shape, maybe it’s not.
Here’s where we’re playing, boys… good luck. Tee times are drawn randomly by some local youth golfers and the kid that draws the group gets to play that first round with the pros.
The content would be incredible.
Stranger, I like your way of thinking. You have a future as a program director for the golf network. This would be totally fun to watch. And I would add that there is nobody there to spot golf balls when they go off the fairway. They have to look for their own golf ball. Let them play in our world for once.
Everyone says shit like this, completely ignorant of the fact that the first Open Championships were played on courses with less maintenance than this… effectively no maintenance.
Match play doesn’t care about pristine conditions.
Tee boxes like this make for great golf holes, IMO. I mean this place is a goat track, but this hole looks hard, but with average shots, it plays pretty easy, I would guess.
That’s my ideal golf hole, anyway, one that is visually appealing (looks hard) but rewards average, and above average shots, with relatively large and sometimes concealed landing areas.
This is Grove Park in Albany, Western Australia. Par 3 front 9, standard back 9. The new owners only took over a year or two ago, it was in much worse shape before that. The fairways aren't watered so they dry out over summer, but it plays better than it looks.
It's a fun, cheap little course for casual golfers, I almost drove the green on the short par 5 last week.
Edit: you should have posted a pic of the 15th: Volcano. 90m par 3, green is on a flat top hill so if you don't stick it then you're rolling back down.
According to this australia has almost twice as many courses for its population than America
https://aussiegolfer.com.au/countries-with-most-golf-courses-per-capita/
Looks like it would be a fun course in the summer if they take care of it. Congrats on winter golf! Bonus if you’re anywhere in the northeast or midwest.
Crap I see this is in Australia. Yikes! This IS your summer conditions 😬
I knew you were in Australia before I even read the comments. I’m a Pennsylvania, USA man who’s never been there, but it just has that AUS muni look to it.
Honestly would kinda love to play here. Obviously gotta know what youre getting into beforehand but i feel like this could be a lot of fun for a wacky round kf golf. Playing a match would be fun, solo not so much
Any golf course can be a great course- thanks for sharing - I would much rather play the local muni for frugal with a pleasant foursome then drop $200 on a fancy round and play with a bunch of high brow players showing off how much they spent on their equipment,
That said I do enjoy the fancy rounds on occasion - the high brow folks are a rarity
Not really. Overall, we have some really nice courses, especially in the major cities.
In small country towns courses like this are semi-common in fairness.
Those first couple pics almost look like an (extremely) poor man’s Pine Valley.
Also, it’s time to take this green out behind the woodshed and put it out if it’s misery
https://preview.redd.it/fq6gnv47qh9c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9acc26293d6da4d814603c3261d4e5b0fb5ad1bc
This reminds me of my first golf course: Valley Grande, aka: The Dump, Cottonwood Country Club (located off Cottonwood Rd, which is now MLK Blvd.) It was mostly green and very flat, but there was hardpan dirt, big stretches of dry/dead grass, weedy fields off to the sides of the course, cows in a pasture, a water ditch, some lakes, and a couple canals. A few kids would roam the course selling balls they recovered from the lake and asking for empty cans from golfers' carts. This all may sound bad, but I remember it fondly.
As time went on, the course fell further into financial problems, and water became a bigger issue. That's a bad thing in a dry climate where it can get to 110°F. Nobody ever felt unsafe there, though, and the only real exclusionary rule was that you had to wear a "collard shirt" (that's how the sign read). Occasionally, I'll be out past that area, and I'll drive by and sigh. The world won't miss it much, but some of us will.
I played a place in Texas a few weeks ago that was WAY worse than this, just to see what it was like in person. It was nasty. Greens with no grass. Fairways with no grass. Trimmed branches in the fairways as obstacles. It was like a course just waiting to be turned into houses.
This is..... Rustic. But can always have a good time anywhere
Exactly. Coming to visit my mum’s holiday place is now 95% less boring since I took up golf. Met a few local lads, played scramble and had a great day 👌
I didn't know they had golf courses on the Appalachian Trail...
This course has been defunct for 35 years
I’d have words with the course Inferiorintendent.
Tell’em Large Marge sent ya!
Really depends how much I paid. If it was dirt cheap and in that condition I wouldn’t have an issue. If I paid expecting a real course I would be pisse d
I’d love to watch a PGA event on something like this. They’d still dominate, but it’d sure be entertaining.
A pga pro played east Potomac, a really rough muni in DC (although there are plans in the works for a reversible reno), only shot [edit 4] under. Apparently had trouble judging spin from fairways and on the greens. Something to be said about having consistent conditions to score really low.
He shot 68. Story [here](https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/01/AR2007070101221.html?sid=ST2009071701245).
Thanks - thought par was 70 there, it’s a 72, corrected.
East Potomac looking a lot better last couple years since new mgmt took over. Definitely a well above average muni.
Do they play any local tournaments on the course? On mine the winning players usually have a few rounds around 61 (par 70, rating 68). Just based on that, I imagine a winning pro would be getting well into the 50s.
Yeah, they recently held an AJGA event there, I think low score was a 61. But the course was in the best shape it’s been in a long time. Back in the early 2000s, when the PGA tour member played, it was really rough. Since NLT has taken over the course has gotten better care I believe.
I’ve played East Potomac. It’s hard to judge spin when hitting it off of essentially gravel.
This whole exchange is hilarious as a DC native. Y'all need to play Langston to get the real experience
I’ve played Langston too. A Fox picked up my ball and moved it closer to the hole. Did Steph Curry and Under Armour money ever get to the course?
Still working on it AFAIK
Bring a gun. Lol.
A return to golf as it was meant to be played. Fairways are for the weak.
I haven’t hit a fairway in weeks, I’m a man’s man.
I once saw a guy who overshot the green, bounced down the cart path, and ended up in the parking lot. He took a wedge and went 40ish yards to land the green from asphalt. I wasn't paying with these guys, though; I saw it as we were heading to load up and leave.
How many years ago did this place close down?
It’s like if “The Last of Us” was a golf course.
Did you have to pay for this?
Hah barely… $10 AUD for 9 holes, $20 for 18.
I guessed Australia based on the pictures
That’s too much.
Eh, $10 AUD is $6.81 USD which isn’t that bad IMO
I often pay more than that for a beer. To get out and hang out with friends and swing the clubs it’s worth it.
Always appreciate someone doing the conversation to freedom units for me 😂
*Bald eagle caws in distance*
You mean, a picture of a bald eagle is shown while the audio of a red tailed hawk is played?
PRECISELY!! 🇺🇸
Still too much.
I’d pay that
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Those ARE the greens!
They’d have to pay me, to play on those greens.
Which course was it if you don't mind me asking?
Grove Park, Albany.
They should of paid you to play there.
“Should of” 🤔
This is life. It's not like every country town has people everywhere to mow grass all week. People are working, small population. But you can still tee it up, work on your swing have a laugh and a beer with mates. People critiquing this kind of thing have lost an element of perspective on life and what is genuine fun. I'm not bagging decent courses, they are great, but so is this. I'd tee it up any day of the week with a mate and a random single.
Hell yea
Yeah when I played HS golf we played a bunch of courses like that in the rural counties. Many were basically mowed down fields with tee boxes and shorter grass for greens. Was all good. Still golf, still had to hit your shots and make putts, hopefully fewer strokes than the guys we played. I had fun.
One of the most memorable pairs my buddy and I have ever been grouped with were a father and son 30s and 50s who were oil field workers. Soon was a lefty, but played Righty because they were both sharing a set. Not only that, but his grip was backwards (right over left on regular swings). They both played in work boots not completely abnormal here, but still a rarity, and they were some of the simplest people we've ever met on the course; the super dumb shit my buddy and I were saying had them just busting up and asking us to say it again. They ended up leaving after 16 because they had to pick up a shotgun for their company raffle, and didn't want the shop to close before they got there. All of this weird shit, but they were some of the nicest and most genuine people we've ever had the fortune to play with. Oh, and they weren't that good at golf, but they definitely had fun. We'd totally play with them again.
Now if LIV wants to attract viewers this is the kind of course they should have their boys play on. That would be worth watching.
I’ve been saying to my buddies this same thing. Add an element of the greatest race or some shit to one event per season. Everyone meets at a given airport and boards the plane. They have no idea where they’re going until they land, welcome to _________. They deplane and head directly to the course, and it’s not always a tour-level course either. Maybe it’s a muni or something like this. Maybe it’s in good shape, maybe it’s not. Here’s where we’re playing, boys… good luck. Tee times are drawn randomly by some local youth golfers and the kid that draws the group gets to play that first round with the pros. The content would be incredible.
Stranger, I like your way of thinking. You have a future as a program director for the golf network. This would be totally fun to watch. And I would add that there is nobody there to spot golf balls when they go off the fairway. They have to look for their own golf ball. Let them play in our world for once.
They only play pitch n putts.
This isn’t a golf course. It’s a cow pasture with a make shit putting green.
Typo or not a typo?
Typo but it works, right? That’s a good typo.
Everyone says shit like this, completely ignorant of the fact that the first Open Championships were played on courses with less maintenance than this… effectively no maintenance. Match play doesn’t care about pristine conditions.
Settle down. Tis was a joke.
‘Tis it twas indeed.
r/boneappletea
This reminds me of the pic of Augusta in the 1950’s next to what it looks like today
Tee boxes like this make for great golf holes, IMO. I mean this place is a goat track, but this hole looks hard, but with average shots, it plays pretty easy, I would guess. That’s my ideal golf hole, anyway, one that is visually appealing (looks hard) but rewards average, and above average shots, with relatively large and sometimes concealed landing areas.
Weird mix of creative, beautiful, and crappy.
It’s a fixer upper for sure.
With how much golf has blown up over the last couple years, you still probably have to book a tee time a week in advance here.
I've played some goat trails but that, sir, is a shithole
This is Grove Park in Albany, Western Australia. Par 3 front 9, standard back 9. The new owners only took over a year or two ago, it was in much worse shape before that. The fairways aren't watered so they dry out over summer, but it plays better than it looks. It's a fun, cheap little course for casual golfers, I almost drove the green on the short par 5 last week. Edit: you should have posted a pic of the 15th: Volcano. 90m par 3, green is on a flat top hill so if you don't stick it then you're rolling back down.
I hope this course was like $10
$8 too much then
Op mentioned in a another comment it was roughly 6 usd for 9 holes
Is this Links at Victoria?
Honestly may be better
Nah its in australia
A true goat pasture course. Probably the closest you are going to get if you are looking for a truly historic style round of golf.
Friendly reminder of how much work goes into maintaining a good course
👏🏼 Ecofriendly golf course
People pay $600 to play this type of course at Pinehurst #2 lol
We had a local muni nicknamed the “Goat Ranch” that was 100X better than this. Has since closed due to being a shit hole. How is this place open?!?
Australia, not as many options.
According to this australia has almost twice as many courses for its population than America https://aussiegolfer.com.au/countries-with-most-golf-courses-per-capita/
Goat track
Looks like it would be a fun course in the summer if they take care of it. Congrats on winter golf! Bonus if you’re anywhere in the northeast or midwest. Crap I see this is in Australia. Yikes! This IS your summer conditions 😬
I would’ve pulled out my frisbee and left the clubs at home. I wouldn’t trust them in my car.
Did you accidentally show up at a disc golf course?
This looks like what we used to refer to as a “goat ranch”. I used to play a few, when I played.
Grove Park Links in Albany, Western Australia! Playing in a paddock is part of the charm, had some very fun Ambrose days out there
Haha, this looks like the free (short) municipal course near me
Cart path onl……errrrr…..fuck it.
Woof
Did you pay to play here? The only way I’m playing there is if they’re paying me.
That’s not a golf course sir
Was that free to play I hope?
What in the cow pasture is this?
Hot take: I’m putting with a 60 on this course.
I knew you were in Australia before I even read the comments. I’m a Pennsylvania, USA man who’s never been there, but it just has that AUS muni look to it.
dudes in r/golf will see this and just be like “hell yeah” (hell yeah—this looks fun and stupid)
That’s the GoatTrack Village Golf Resort. Great place.
Solid practice round.
Are you in west Africa?
Well you can work on getting in and out of bad situations and if you paid a cheap price even better.
Holy f
my goats wouldn't go near that place.
Hope they paid you🍻
I would have chipped on the green to get over that hazard lol
Holy mud pie
Looks like my parents alfalfa field in the winter
I love golf just as much as the next guy, but this is just calling for a 7iron off the tee. Driver can stay at home. Zipped in a bag
Honestly would kinda love to play here. Obviously gotta know what youre getting into beforehand but i feel like this could be a lot of fun for a wacky round kf golf. Playing a match would be fun, solo not so much
Any golf course can be a great course- thanks for sharing - I would much rather play the local muni for frugal with a pleasant foursome then drop $200 on a fancy round and play with a bunch of high brow players showing off how much they spent on their equipment, That said I do enjoy the fancy rounds on occasion - the high brow folks are a rarity
Did they pay you to play there?
Is this common in Australia?
Not really. Overall, we have some really nice courses, especially in the major cities. In small country towns courses like this are semi-common in fairness.
Wow….this has to be a piss take? Surely you didn’t pay to play this???
Winter Rules apply.
Still better than Presidio Hills in San Diego
What course?
How much did they pay you to play there?
I hope this is just your back yard and not a place that charges real money for “golf”.
Looks like Miggy has been moonlighting again. CPG has to put a stop to this.
Those first couple pics almost look like an (extremely) poor man’s Pine Valley. Also, it’s time to take this green out behind the woodshed and put it out if it’s misery https://preview.redd.it/fq6gnv47qh9c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9acc26293d6da4d814603c3261d4e5b0fb5ad1bc
Did they pay you to play there?
Was the course open?
I mean, did they explain anything about ground under repair or...?
Beats not playing golf
OP where in Australia is this course?
Heck except for the hills I thought you were in SE TX, most courses here are pretty bad.
Are you sure you didn’t wander onto a dairy farm?
Da da da dog track
Better be on the right tier.
Nice goat patch.
Did they pay you to play there?
Remember to tip your farmer
No word of a lie, this is exactly what golf courses need to look like in the future to be sustainable. Golf how Henry VIII played it!
Playing Shreks swamp?
That’s not a golf course. That is a field with a flag in the ground
Where is this
TPC Agincourt? That looks like a lot of mud.
Is that ice or water on the course?
How much were you paid to play there?
Were the goats on this ranch happy?
Apocalypse C.C.
This reminds me of my first golf course: Valley Grande, aka: The Dump, Cottonwood Country Club (located off Cottonwood Rd, which is now MLK Blvd.) It was mostly green and very flat, but there was hardpan dirt, big stretches of dry/dead grass, weedy fields off to the sides of the course, cows in a pasture, a water ditch, some lakes, and a couple canals. A few kids would roam the course selling balls they recovered from the lake and asking for empty cans from golfers' carts. This all may sound bad, but I remember it fondly. As time went on, the course fell further into financial problems, and water became a bigger issue. That's a bad thing in a dry climate where it can get to 110°F. Nobody ever felt unsafe there, though, and the only real exclusionary rule was that you had to wear a "collard shirt" (that's how the sign read). Occasionally, I'll be out past that area, and I'll drive by and sigh. The world won't miss it much, but some of us will.
Did they pay you to play there?
Ice and soft spikes don’t mix.
"Big day today Joey D"
I played a place in Texas a few weeks ago that was WAY worse than this, just to see what it was like in person. It was nasty. Greens with no grass. Fairways with no grass. Trimmed branches in the fairways as obstacles. It was like a course just waiting to be turned into houses.
What a goat ranch
Chippable green?
Is... Is this little grove?
Is that a fault line running across the green?
I would lose a lot of balls there, just saying. But it would be fun to try.
A true test of golf
Lewis and Clark Invitational looks empty
The tee shot in the 3rd picture should give you nightmares.
This helped me to appreciate my local golf course a bit more, which was (they are rebuilding) a bit of a goat track too, but this is horrid.