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| Hale Golf Course provides a picturesque and diverting challenge |
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Hale Golf Club |
Surrounded by the beautiful Bollin Valley countryside with its meandering river and mature woodlands, every hole brings new vistas and new obstacles. No two holes are the same. After you have played each hole the first time, you will eagerly anticipate the opportunity to do better on the second nine. But even then, new challenges present themselves. Tee positions are changed (subtly or strikingly) and new obstacles must be overcome.
This par 70 golf course will draw you back again and again. |
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| First Hole: Meadow |
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| Unusually, the course opens with a 480 yard Par 5 hole. To the left, a row of mature trees penalises a wayward hook. To the right are bunkers at 200 and 230 yds. A good second shot should bring you to a position on the fairway either short of, or in, a broad depression just below the green. But to the left lies out of bounds (OB) and to the right more bunkers and rough. The green is long and protected by bunkers to left and right. |
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| Second Hole: Spinney |
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| This 160 yard hole is, at face value, an easy Par 3. However, the green is well protected by bunkers and mature trees to the right will catch a ball that strays off course. |
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| Third Hole: Bend |
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This is a dog-leg 300 yard Par 4 hole. To the right the River Bollin meanders but it will be a very poor shot that brings it into play! A straight iron will put you within reach of the green. However, drive too far and you will be over a bank and down into a broad depression of rough. Try for a longer shot with draw and you risk the mature trees on the left of the fairway. An easy second shot takes you on to a slightly elevated green sloping down towards you and protected by bunkers at the front.
An elevated 12th tee has been constructed about 50 yards back from the 3rd tee position, providing a majestic viewpoint and a much more challenging drive. |
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| Fourth Hole: Crow Bank |
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At around 410 yards, this is the longest Par 4 at Hale. A long drive takes you over the third fairway, up over a bank and on to the elevated fourth fairway. Rough and small trees lie to the left of the fairway. Mature trees, OB and the risk of a lost ball are to the right. A long second shot over grassy mounds and a downhill fairway will bring you to the green, provided of course you miss the bunkers to left and right of the fairway. The green slopes up to the back and links with the 7th green.
The tee position on the 13th brings an ancient oak tree into play. |
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| Fifth Hole: Orchard |
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| This 380 yard hole is the second longest Par 4 on the course. From an elevated tee position, your drive should take you to the centre of a long and trouble-free fairway. However, beware! High, mature trees on the right are all that separates you from the River Bollin and a tendency to hit left and away from trouble will bring you into the newly planted and mature trees that separate the 5th and 6th fairways and will certainly impede your second shot to the green. The green is protected by bunkers to left and right and a downward bank to the right and short of the green leads to rough and ultimately into the Bollin. |
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| Sixth Hole: Peninsular |
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| Driving back and parallel to the 5th hole up this 360 yard Par 4 hole, the separating trees are still on your left. But to the right, on the bank of a meander of the River Bollin, are more mature trees and danger. The fairway opens out to the right a little behind the high trees but don’t go too far right or you risk a lost ball or being blocked out. Too long a drive will take you on to a steep slope, with the risk of running off to the left or a poor stance. The second shot takes you over the steep slope and up to the fairway which turns slightly left towards the green. The green is protected by bunkers and grass mounds to the left and by mounds to the right. Hit too far and you will be OB. The green slopes steeply back towards the fairway and is the most difficult at Hale. |
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| Seventh Hole: Farm |
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| Whilst presenting an excellent opportunity for a birdie 2, the short 125 yard Par 3 7th can also provide the risk of a bogie or double bogie. A deep trench separates the tee from the green which is also well protected by bunkers to the front and right. Watch for the prevailing breeze from the left, which you don’t feel when standing on the tee. |
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| Eighth Hole: Punchbowl |
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| Drive over a bunker at 150 yds (halfway to the green) on to a wide fairway. Slice or stray too far right and you are into high trees and a deep gorge. Stray to the left and you tangle with the Whale (a long grassy mound) and will be impeded by trees. A second short iron on this Par 4 hole will bring you to the green protected on the right by a bunker and on the left by a long diagonal grassy mound, which somehow manages to intervene between you and the flag. |
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| Ninth Hole: Home |
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| The Clubhouse is in sight but between you and the green, 380 yards away up this gently rising Par 4 hole, is a large mature oak tree that might come into play on your second shot unless you drive to either left or right of it. The fairway slopes slightly to the left and to its left is rough and then thick woodland. Past the tree and the drainage ditch crossing the fairway and then you are slightly uphill to the green, protected by bunkers to left and right. Beware the optical illusion: there is dead ground between the bunkers and green! The sides of a long green slope down to the Clubhouse and car park. |
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