Dunmurry Springs

Tones69

Anyone played recently? Thinking of giving the singles a bash fri

Benicetomonty

Cracking course with the exception of number 6, disaster of a golf hole. Fairways and greens always in excellent shape everytime Ive played it, very firm and fast and very capable of handling rain. Good driving course, you need to be straight, not ultra long. Greens can be difficult, numer 4 is not one to be missed long. There is water, comes in to play on 9, and 18 off the tee. Also present on 3, signature hole, but would be a poor shot to find the hazard. Enjoy if you play!

Dr_Colossus

Played there last Sat for the first time in a society outing. Played off the whites as it's quite a short cource so I'd imagine all opens would be played off the whites also.

Greens were hollow tined and sanded about a week before hand but were still quite sandy given the lack of rain, should be better now. Course was firm and dry underfoot and everything was play as it lies which was good. Surprised in how open the course was, rough wasn't too restrictive so I'd imagine you'd want a big score in an open to feature or get cut in an open.

Front nine plays somewhat easier than the back nine with alot of short par 4s so no real need for the driver on alot of them. Some of the indexes didn't make much sense, especially the 11th par 3 being index 2 and it no more than a 7 or 6 iron partly over water. Perhaps the indexes were worked off the blue tees which were often back a good bit further?

There's a nice strokesaver type view of each hole online so no harm studying that to select your desired club on each tee, some holes are quite blind and there seems to be tees and greens on top of one another on some holes on around the front nine. Would definitely go back for another game but would like to see the rough let grow to toughen up some of the shorter holes.

Mat the trasher

Yea its in good nick, member there, playing quite forgiving at the moment as the rough is still fairly short and its easy enough find a wayward shot, unless its in the next field

Tones69

Mat the trasher wrote: »

Yea its in good nick, member there, playing quite forgiving at the moment as the rough is still fairly short and its easy enough find a wayward shot, unless its in the next field

Whats the norm css for singles off whites? Be 36 fri will it?

Dr_Colossus

Tones69 wrote: »

Whats the norm css for singles off whites? Be 36 fri will it?

If it's anyways calm I'd imagine it would be more 38 or even 39, it played quite easy last Sat in a light breeze.

Tones69

Dr_Colossus wrote: »

If it's anyways calm I'd imagine it would be more 38 or even 39, it played quite easy last Sat in a light breeze.

39??? Wont be playing if its that high, playing easy, they must have the holes widened to 6 inches lol

charlieIRL

Tones69 wrote: »

39??? Wont be playing if its that high, playing easy, they must have the holes widened to 6 inches lol

don't ever bother playing moate in westmeath then - high 40's is needed to win even from the back tees!!

Mat the trasher

Yea last weekend played easy 37CSS for members comp, previous opens where 36, 35. This Fri I would guess 35 with the wind. Remember its the short rough thats allowing high scores at the moment, 2 weeks with some rain and growth it will be alot tougher.

Tones69

Mat the trasher wrote: »

Yea last weekend played easy 37CSS for members comp, previous opens where 36, 35. This Fri I would guess 35 with the wind. Remember its the short rough thats allowing high scores at the moment, 2 weeks with some rain and growth it will be alot tougher.

yeah 36 would be ok, 37 maybe, but 39 css is a joke ha, ud have to put together a cracker of a round which aint too easy with wind stirring this week

aarymark

Dr_Colossus wrote: »

If it's anyways calm I'd imagine it would be more 38 or even 39, it played quite easy last Sat in a light breeze.[/QUO

av ss there is 35 id say when the rought comes back , 36 or 37 atm

BigChap1759

Tones69 wrote: »

yeah 36 would be ok, 37 maybe, but 39 css is a joke ha, ud have to put together a cracker of a round which aint too easy with wind stirring this week

It's a very short course if you're a long hitter Tones - lots of par/birdie chances if you're driving it well.

That said I have always had a soft spot for it - a lovely looking course the way the course/fairways are designed and contoured.

Ben1977

Always a breeze on the course. Watch out for the wind as it may change during the round. Once the greens have a time to recover and there is a bit of growth, it becomes tight and some greens are hard to hold.

Driver isn't need on every hole. Short for this time of year but once the defenses are up you have to plot your way around.

Indexs are off the Blues and for the 11th the wind is usually left to right or straight into it. Anything with a cut is wet.

The 6th you either love it or hate it.

mag

massive thumbs down for the 6th. good track apart from that though...

Mat the trasher

Ok the 6th

I don't understand the huge difficulty people have with the hole? I agree its a tough one, very narrow drive, but its short, easily reachable in two, with a good straight drive to the corner. If a straight drive isn't in your bag knock it down the fairway and to the corner with the second. The hole doesn't change and its up to the golfer to play to his/her strenghts. Believe it or not the wimmins have no problems with it.

brick tamland

Jeez Tones, you’ve a great life mate. You play some amount of golf. How many rounds do you play a week?


* Massively jealous

Benicetomonty

Mat the trasher wrote: »

Ok the 6th

I don't understand the huge difficulty people have with the hole? I agree its a tough one, very narrow drive, but its short, easily reachable in two, with a good straight drive to the corner. If a straight drive isn't in your bag knock it down the fairway and to the corner with the second. The hole doesn't change and its up to the golfer to play to his/her strenghts. Believe it or not the wimmins have no problems with it.

Where to start? Well, firstly the hole is massively biased to long hitters because, if memory serves, it's a hell of a drive to reach the corner of the dog-leg. Now you might say that all long holes ultimately favour long hitters, but this one is overly harsh to the short but straight, in that if you're on the fairway but short of the corner, you've got serious problems.

As you mentioned the hole is narrow, but hitting the fairway offers more problems than rewards. Because of its proximity to the wall right, you are basically forced into laying up way back with your second since anything less than a short iron will struggle to get high enough quickly enough to carry the wall and other junk bordering it.
The shot is completely blind (which I can tolerate) but any stroke that requires you to start the ball out of bounds before bringing it back in is, imho, unnecessary. I can't think of another hole in the country that necessitates such a shot, at least not a renowned one.

The above exposes one more design flaw; if there is no obvious benefit for hitting the correct fairway, players are essentially encouraged to drive down the adjoining 8th hole, which has a wider landing area and, despite leaving you a longer second, gives you the chance of hitting a longer club and ultimately, if paradoxically, getting closer to the green with said shot.

One of my pet hates with course design is shots that are only slightly offline getting savaged, whereas wild drives, intentional or not, getting away with murder. My own place has more than one such hole, but the 6th in DS is a complete disaster in this regard

L.O.F.T

Benicetomonty wrote: »

The above exposes one more design flaw; if there is no obvious benefit for hitting the correct fairway, players are essentially encouraged to drive down the adjoining 8th hole, which has a wider landing area and, despite leaving you a longer second, gives you the chance of hitting a longer club and ultimately, if paradoxically, getting closer to the green with said shot

Your spot on but on a more serious note walking from tee to green on the 8th is no picnic either and dangerous at best as you have described above. I have lost count of how many times I have ducked coming up the 8th from golf balls being hit from the tee at 6 either pulled or hit out there. Its even worse going down the 6th as tee shots from the 8th box are always aimed up the 6th as there is OB in play along the right of the 8th. I used to be a member there and its as dangerous on a busy weekend morning as it gets. It's a bad design and no room to change it.

Tones69

brick tamland wrote: »

Jeez Tones, you’ve a great life mate. You play some amount of golf. How many rounds do you play a week?


* Massively jealous

Huh? Its Good friday and im playing an open singles, hardly going to augusta for the weekend or anything dude? I play 2 rounds a week at my home course and try to play away once every 2 weeks

Tones69

Jesus it was freezin there today, some wind! Had 40 pts with a Silly scratch, Off the tee and putter flying, 1.2 cut, down to 15 now

Mat the trasher

Good score, nice win

Tones69

Mat the trasher wrote: »

Good score, nice win

Did i win? Lol

Tones69

Benicetomonty wrote: »

Mat the trasher wrote: »

Ok the 6th

I don't understand the huge difficulty people have with the hole? I agree its a tough one, very narrow drive, but its short, easily reachable in two, with a good straight drive to the corner. If a straight drive isn't in your bag knock it down the fairway and to the corner with the second. The hole doesn't change and its up to the golfer to play to his/her strenghts. Believe it or not the wimmins have no problems with it.

Where to start? Well, firstly the hole is massively biased to long hitters because, if memory serves, it's a hell of a drive to reach the corner of the dog-leg. Now you might say that all long holes ultimately favour long hitters, but this one is overly harsh to the short but straight, in that if you're on the fairway but short of the corner, you've got serious problems.

As you mentioned the hole is narrow, but hitting the fairway offers more problems than rewards. Because of its proximity to the wall right, you are basically forced into laying up way back with your second since anything less than a short iron will struggle to get high enough quickly enough to carry the wall and other junk bordering it.
The shot is completely blind (which I can tolerate) but any stroke that requires you to start the ball out of bounds before bringing it back in is, imho, unnecessary. I can't think of another hole in the country that necessitates such a shot, at least not a renowned one.

The above exposes one more design flaw; if there is no obvious benefit for hitting the correct fairway, players are essentially encouraged to drive down the adjoining 8th hole, which has a wider landing area and, despite leaving you a longer second, gives you the chance of hitting a longer club and ultimately, if paradoxically, getting closer to the green with said shot.

One of my pet hates with course design is shots that are only slightly offline getting savaged, whereas wild drives, intentional or not, getting away with murder. My own place has more than one such hole, but the 6th in DS is a complete disaster in this regard

Was thinkin bout u today playin this hole, i cracked a low one with crosswind, reached the dogleg and left myself 183 to the pin, hit the hybrid as the wind was right into me, good strike a little right, got on and 2 putted for a par, very tough hole if you dont crack a drive imo

Mat the trasher

Tones69 wrote: »

Mat the trasher wrote: »

Good score, nice win

Did i win? Lol

If your one scratch was on 15, I guess its you. Won on back nine.

Tones69

Mat the trasher wrote: »

If your one scratch was on 15, I guess its you. Won on back nine.

15 that handy index 18 par 3 over the water yeah? Yep thats me lol, cool man cheers what was the ss, the guy said it prob 35/36 with the conditions/greens etc

Mat the trasher

Tones69 wrote: »

Mat the trasher wrote: »

If your one scratch was on 15, I guess its you. Won on back nine.

15 that handy index 18 par 3 over the water yeah? Yep thats me lol, cool man cheers what was the ss, the guy said it prob 35/36 with the conditions/greens etc

Css was 36

Tones69

Mat the trasher wrote: »

Css was 36

Cool cheers, lovely course by the way, deffo go back in summer

dnjoyce

You'll be able to open a pro shop soon the rate you're racking up the prizes! Nice going!