Filed under: Courses
I got to play at the Islington Golf Club today, which is a private course located just north of Dundas St., on Islington. I found it to be a fairly intimate Stanley Thomson design, quite playable, with some quite interesting holes.
It’s not the longest course in the world, and it’s setup on a fairly small piece of land, although it dates back to 1924, so one has to assume that even back then land/space was at a premium.
Nine decades later, there are a lot of houses that only a slice/hook/thin hit shot away. Including the notorious house that now has a large fence setup by the club to protect it. It really is literally on the course, a few metres from the fairway even. The street it is on I’m sure also gets its share of stray shots. In general, the houses that line the course are quite nice, and interesting to look at, so on some levels I think it adds to the urban experience of golfing at that location.
I also noticed that in many cases there was really close proximity between greens and tees. Not necessarily consecutive holes, but often we were on the tee and thrown off by celebrations of birdie on a nearby hole, although we were certainly guilty of doing this ourselves.
In general the course provided a fun challenge, with a few really nice holes, and a few really frustrating holes. There were a couple really long par 3s, and a couple really long par 4s. There’s also a number of reachable par 4s for big hitters, though hitting driver then wedge is nice for this mid handicapper. The par 5s were nice risk reward holes.
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