'tis Autumn..Nearly!

My lawn is looking really good, even this late in the year...... I wish!





Many of the trees are holding up well, though a few have shed their leaves.
As you can see it was â??total gridlockâ? on the course today.

This was â??first thingâ? this morning..... around 10.30am. Weâ??re less than four miles from the centre of Manchester.




This is a par 5, the green is at the top of the slope in the distance, it's not particularly difficult. This is from the ladies tee, about forty yards closer to the pin than the men's.



This is the short par 3. The greenâ??s another fifty yards beyond that tree and there's a gap between the trees no wider than about twelve feet. Can be tricky to get a par and you need one in a Stableford comp. if you donâ??t get a shot.
Apart from a few crows and a rabbit, the cat was the only "wild life" we saw today.



On a clearer day you can see the tops of the Pennines in the far distance.



We've several nice willows.







This is a hard par 4, nearly 500yds.



An easy par 4.

 

A nice walk spoiled someone said about golf... but you have some great pictures !

 

Must admit I've never understood the reasoning behind trying to hit a very small ball with an implement that seems specifically designed to make it as difficult as possible, but you do get some good views and it keeps the property developers at bay.

 

It was Mark Twain who described golf as; "A good walk spoilt."

I decided when I was younger, that I'd leave golf for my old age.
I played squash for a club team in the North-west counties leagues until I was fifty.
When I retired a 58 I knew I needed to maintain a level of fitness, so decided to give golf a try.

Unless you've actually tried it, don't knock it.

It's excellent exercise in good company. It's also handy as you can get all sorts of contacts for work you want doing in relation to your house, car, garden etc. because so many people in different trades and professions play golf.
It's a great leveller, I could be partnered in a game by a high court judge, a bank manager, or a window cleaner. Everyone's on first name terms and very friendly at our club.
The media and some TV programmes do tend to show golf clubs in a poor light. If you're not a member of a club it can work out expensive, the average cost of a round for a visitor at most clubs is at least £30. But as a member, I play three times a week, so each round works out at about a fiver, for three and a half hours exercise. Hot showers and towels provided.
A pint of beer is under two quid and you can have a nice lunch for less than a fiver in really pleasant and comfortable surroundings.

Golf is also; "one of the last refuges of good manners."

 

I'm sure it is DH.:gnthb:

 

Golf is very time consuming and can be expensive when you're working.
I never play at week-ends when those not "pleasantly unemployed" have to play, as it gets busy and it can take well over four hours to get round.
As for expense, long before I joined a club a work colleague who was a member of a club, once worked out that in the previous year, each game cost him £150, he was able to play so rarely.

We used to have the same crazy golf competitions with the kids when they were small, usually one of the won!

I've a crazy golf set I keep in the shed for when the grandkids visit.