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Conference 7.286::golf

Title:Welcome to the Golf Notes Conference!
Notice:FOR SALE notes in Note 69 please! Intros in note 863 or 61.
Moderator:FUNYET::ANDERSON
Created:Tue Feb 15 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2129
Total number of notes:21499

68.0. "COURSE LENGTHS" by RDGENG::DHALL () Thu Feb 19 1987 21:36

    
    
         Having only a limited experience of golf courses,3 months
        playing.Last week I joined a couple of friends for a days
        golf.It was decided to play 18 in the morning take a break
        for a pie and pint in the 19th and have 18 in the afternoon.
    
         The course was West Berks in Newbury Berkshire.The combined
        lenghth of the course was 7,700 yards consisting of a monster
        650 yard par 5.I went round in 106 and 103 which I was well
        pleased with and only lost one ball.The troble hit me later
        that night when I tried to get up out of my chair to go to
        bed and found I could hardly walk.I was stiff for days and late
        for work the following day due to oversleeping.Is this a long
        course or was it just my staggered approach play to every hole
        making me cover probably 2 or 3 times the length of course,as
        I consider myself fairly fit playing soccer,and squash once
        week.
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68.1Extremely longARMORY::WELLSPEAKBeakFri Feb 20 1987 17:3918
    	That course is indeed, extremely long.  I don't know what the
    exact average is, but I would guess that the average public course
    is somewhere around 6600 to 6700 yards.  The average pro course
    doesn't exceed between 7300-7400 yards.  Walking 36 holes on a course
    that long, would be to much for almost anybody, even if it was flat.
    Add hills on top of that distance and number of holes, and you're
    probably overdoing it.
    	Another thing about the game of golf, is you use your back a
    lot, and put a great deal of stress on these muscles.  Learning
    how to bend down properly can be helpful.  Some people just don't
    bend at the knees enough when bending over to pick up a ball or
    put a tee in.  The correct way can save you a world of hurt.
    	Next time you want to play 36 holes, try walking 18 and taking
    a cart for the other 18.  Your back and legs will thank you in the
    morning.  And who knows, you might even be able to play again the
    next day!!!
                                                   Beak
68.2It's not the miles but the abuseLOCH::KEVINKevin O'BrienFri Feb 20 1987 18:189
    re:.0
    
    	Paul (aka Beak) makes a good point, it's not so much the length
    of the course as in the muscles that you use.  Soccer and squash
    are running games where golf is walking.  How often do you take
    a long walk with your clubs?  Also golf uses muscles in the shoulders,
    lower back, chest and legs differently than any other sport.  There
    are exercises that you can do to minimize this discomfort, but the
    easiest way is to just 'gut it out' and play a lot of golf!
68.3Tired but TryingRDGENG::DHALLTue Feb 24 1987 21:0311
    
                    <THANKS,FOR THE ADVICE>
    
     Thanks for the advice contained in the replies.Played there again
    on Saturday(18 only)and managed to play soccer Sunday morining,with
    no recriminations.
     re:.1 The course is in wild and wooly Berkshire and carts are unheard
    of Your lucky to find a trolly out there.In fact I have never seen
    any carts in the UK.Do they exist?
68.4CALLME::MR_TOPAZTue Feb 24 1987 22:139
     re .3:
     
     They are indeed very rare.  A booklet I got mentioned that a few
     resort courses might have carts in Scotland (possibly Gleneagles?),
     but it is certainly the exception rather than the rule.  In the Irish
     republic, the only course where you can rent carts is Waterville, in
     the southwest (Co. Kerry, I think).
     
     --Mr Topaz
68.5Tale of the missing carts.JOCKEY::GOLDSACKMUSHROOMThu Jul 30 1987 17:4616
    I have found a couple of courses in and around Cambridgeshire that
    can supply carts but this makes it a very expensive day. The normal
    cost for 18 holes hire of a cart is approx 15pounds so add to this
    the green fee of around 12pounds for a guest player not playing
    with a member and the couple of quid spent in the 19TH then you've
    an expensive day.
       I paly golf for many reasons one being the exercise so the idea
    of using a cart is not high on my list of things to do.
       
    P.S. Could you get some DEC employees from the Reading/Basingstoke
    area together to have a match with a useless team from Newmarket?
    If possible then give us a ring on 7850-3418 and we'll see what
    we can do.
    
                               Mark Goldsack.