点评:Askernish Golf Club. Those words have been rolling off my tongue a lot since I finally played there last weekend. And it was worth every minute of the long winded journey to get there. Ours was the only car in the park when we arrived. The welcome in the small clubhouse was exceptional. We were advised to take trollies. This was very good advice as it is quite hilly from green to the next tee in places. The opening four holes are pretty ho hum, nothing special there. Scoring was good. But then the course starts to bare its teeth. From the sixth onwards it is a game of survival. This is not a course for the faint of heart. I walked on to the 7th tee and found myself just staring at the hole taking it all in. A long par 4, S.I. 1. A sliver of fairway to aim at, some 150yards across wildflowers and brutal rough. That's half the job done. I eventually carded a 6 on what is without doubt the finest golf hole I have played anywhere in the world. Long carries to skinny fairways continued and I count myself fortunate to have lost only a brace of balls. The 11th is an impossible looking long par 3 into the prevailing wind. We laughed hard on our first sighting from the tee. But there is a bale out area short right which made the hole manageable. The greens here are a mid pace, around 7 or so on the stimp I'd guess. They look rough at first glance but they generally run smooth and true. And there are some wicked slopes on some. The tee boxes look like cow pasture! This truly is a golf course with a genuinely olde worlde feel. It rained for the final five holes which did nothing to dampen our spirits. A couple of drinks in the clubhouse and we were on our way from an outstanding course.
翻译:阿斯克尼什高尔夫俱乐部。自从我上周末终于在那里打球以来,这些话一直在我嘴里流传。到达那里的漫长旅程的每一分钟都是值得的。当我们到达时,我们的车是公园里唯一的车。小型会所的欢迎非常出色。我们被建议乘坐手推车。这是非常好的建议,因为从果岭到下一个发球台的某些地方非常崎岖。开场的四个洞很无聊,没什么特别的。得分很好。但随后课程开始露出牙齿。从第六层开始,这是一场生存游戏。这不是适合胆小者的课程。我走到第 7 洞发球台,发现自己只是盯着洞里的一切。一个长长的标准杆 4,S.I.1。瞄准一小条球道,大约 150 码穿过野花和残酷的长草。这样就完成了一半的工作。我最终打出了 6 杆,这无疑是我在世界任何地方打过的最好的高尔夫球洞。长距离球道继续前进,我认为自己很幸运,只丢了一对球。第 11 洞是一个看起来不可能的长 3 杆洞,迎着盛行的风。我们第一次看到发球台时就笑得很厉害。但是右边有一个抛出区域,这使得这个洞易于管理。这里的果岭速度适中,我猜大概在 7 左右。乍一看它们看起来很粗糙,但它们通常运行平稳且真实。有些地方有一些邪恶的斜坡。发球区看起来像奶牛牧场!这确实是一个具有真正古老世界感觉的高尔夫球场。最后五个洞都下雨了,这丝毫没有影响我们的精神。在俱乐部会所喝了几杯,我们正从一个出色的课程中走出来。