r/BritGolf

Maybe a bit of a longshot, but I am down in Saunton over the bank holiday weekend and would love to play at Saunton and the members guest rates are slightly more attractive than full whack if you catch my drift😉

I would also prefer to play with someone and my mates I’m down there with are either not good enough to get round there or don’t play.

I’m decent enough crack, fairly okay golfer off 3 and I’ll get the beers in after! Any takers ?

I've just started and live on the outskirts of London. I want to invest but not go skint trying to enjoy a very fun hobby. Any suggestions?

Sup Brit Golfers -

Been solo golfing for a while and thought it’s about time for a change! Would be cool to have a group of us playing semi-regularly (once a month or so) especially now that it’s getting warmer.

I live in SW London and normally play at Richmond Park, Brent Valley, but recently played Woldingham in Surrey and loved it.

Im 29, currently a 16 handicap.

Might try and put something together if there’s a few of us. Also open to trying different courses in and around the London area

How often are you guys hitting full wedges? I’ve changed tactic to now hitting knockdowns whenever possible into greens and am getting far more greens. Eg my 54 goes 90-100 but now I’m hitting a shaft parallel pw etc… am I just at the skill level where the increase in accuracy is out weighing the benefit of stopping power from a full shot?

Does anybody have any strong recommendations on the best sun cream to use when golfing? Ideally one that minimises the oily feeling on my hands so that I can reapply the sun cream after 9 holes and not worry about grip

Looking to buy a pencil bag for using during a uk summer holiday…. Any recommendations or ones to avoid?

Looking for c£100ish ….

Looking at joining a golf club that only allows morning tee times as roll-ups rather than pre-booking.

A group of us are considering joining, but our previous club had a 100% bookable system, so some are worried about regularly turning up on a weekend morning which is when we play the majority of our golf and have to wait 40–50 minutes to get out. I can see the benefit of stopping people reserving early slots weeks in advance and not using them though.

Has anyone else got any experience of this type of system and would they prefer it to tee booking?

Hi all,

Played a 9 hole today and input my scorecard and then couldn’t find it for an hour. Annoyingly, I then re-inputted it and now have a duplicate scorecard.

Anyone know how to remove this as a duplicate. I know the app is funny about not removing a round for bad score but surely there is a way for a duplicate.

I have emailed them but didn’t know if there is a quick fix.

Play well all!

What's the etiquette here? My nearest course has last tee time about 5.30.

But with the daylight hours, I could easily tee off at 6-ish after work and do 9 holes. But the pro shop is closed so I can't pay a green fee.

What's the etiquette here? Is it ok to just walk on and play a few holes after the official closing time?

Evening all, we’re now at 5.5k members, really great activity and really high traffic which is fantastic. Naturally, as popularity has grown, we’re attracting A LOT of AI built websites and Apps “wanting honest feedback” (We’ve had 4 today alone)

Now, some are good, some are crap and most of them are just a guise to steal usership from the subreddit. If we let all of these through, it just cheapens the subreddit and makes it an advertising board for all manners of cobbled together nonsense.

So we’ve taken a stance where all will be removed unless we’re contacted first, and we’ll make a decision if we think it genuinely adds value.

I’m also very aware this would make me a hypocrite with the deals site being pinned, so, if this provides no value I will happily remove this too as I don’t want the sub to turn into that.

Let us know what you think

Up the Britgolf

Edit : on the chance you spot one, report it :)

I've just updated My EG app and it feels even more buggy, keeps logging me out, deleting live scores as always.

I don't understand how my bank, gym and coffee shop have better apps than the app we use for scorecards.

Is it really the only way we can submit scores, aside from physical scorecard? (which I think I'm going to go back to).

I’d thought I’d ask the question here as the main golf subreddit gets flooded with a lot of suggestions for brands not typically carried in the UK.

I’ve been enjoying the Srixon Z-star recently but was losing a few too many for the cost of them so looking for a more budget friendly 3 piece option.

After a couple of years of going to the driving range, I went for my first ever round of golf with a slightly-more-experienced friend at a local pay-and-play course (Ansty, Warwickshire). We booked our tee time as early as possible to avoid the influx of golfers and to avoid clogging up the course if we were slow. Bear in mind - this is my first experience of interacting with "proper" golfers outside of the driving range.

I arrived a couple of minutes late. Not great, I know. We were on the course no more than 3 minutes after our allotted tee time (times are spaced 6 minutes apart). We got to the first tee box and there were 2 people walking up the fairway, clearly having just teed off. There was a group of older guys, no-less than 10 of them, 40-60 y/o, standing on the tee box having a chat - one of who had already teed up and waiting. We assumed they were before us still so we stood behind them waiting.

7-8 minutes pass, and they still haven't teed off, so we go and ask them when they're starting. The conversation was:

Them: we've still got another couple of minutes yet, we're waiting on 1 more to join us

Us: ah, we assumed you were before us and we should have teed off about 10 minutes ago. Do you mind if we play through whilst you wait?

Them: no, tough shit you're too late now, come back another day when you're more organised

Us: that's not very fair, you've seen us waiting behind you, we're only 2 people, please let us play through

At this point, a man who is some kind of staff, appeared from within the group and asked us what the problem was.

Man: You have no business playing here if you're going to be late, you'll have to leave and try another day

Us: I get we were late but we were still ahead of the next tee time, and we thought this group was the slot before ours

Man: Well regardless, you've definitely missed your slot now at this point

I apologised, I explained it was my first time playing and hadn't experienced the flow of the game properly before, I was late because I was organising a toddler at home before I left. He chuntered and then pointed us to the back-nine and "let" us play through that if there was a gap, which there was.

I understand I was late and can only blame myself but I'm taken aback by the shit attitudes and superiority complex, even by those who weren't involved with the initial encounter. I tried hard and did better than I expected, but felt like I reeked of beginner and was frowned upon. I enjoyed the back-9 but was too annoyed to concentrate on it. This is the least-welcoming sport/activity I've ever done, I'm thinking of hanging up the clubs before I've even started because I don't want to be associated with people like that.

Not just Aaron Rai but Lottie Woad getting the LPGA win as well!