Ashford Manor G.C.

The problem of golf holes playing parallel and close to major roads is not an uncommon one on many of our older courses. Though, of course, an improvement at one hole can often lead to problems elsewhere. However the main emphasis must be to improve the problems adjacent to and beyond the course.

At Ashford Manor the 6th hole played particularly close to the main road. The original design of the hole did not discourage golfers from playing a driver off the tee and apart from moving the fairway and tee further from the road it was agreed that two large and penal bunkers be placed to the right of the fairway at about the 200–240 yard mark.

The work was carried out in 2002 and the somewhat penal approach to the bunkering has greatly improved the situation of safety, making the hole harder yet at the same time reducing the number of golfers playing wood shots from the tee and minimising the number of sliced shots.

 

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