Last year I attempted to get back into it. I got back to a handicap score level, then spent a week with my father, playing courses in the area and trying to decide which to join. In the middle of the week I decided to buy some new clubs and spent a couple of hours in Nevada Bobs and Gold Discount. I tried many clubs and actually found that the ones which suited me best where not too expensive (I tried many from 120 to 700 pounds) …half-decent steel cavity backed with steel shafts. I played low nineties most of the week, on courses I had never played before. On the Friday we played nine just to finish the week – at the club I eventually joined. We played the easy nine of twenty-seven, and I had an amazing round of 39 for a par of 34! (To put this into perspective, we had started the week on the same course, the other 18 holes. I lost four balls on one hole and came back in around 110 !!) The course being
Sandford Springs near Basingstoke. It’s a lovely course, recently taken over with some refurbishment going on. My wife and I joined because it was a nice quiet club, small and friendly. The extra nine holes being extremely useful during busy periods. It also has different levels of difficulty, with the parks (open and easier), woods (narrow in places) and the lakes, which speak for themselves!
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