EXMOUTH GOLF SOCIETY

 

2009 TOUR TO CARLYON BAY GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB

 

July 17th - 11.11am Singles Stapleford & Betterball - Sponsored by Coocksles
July 18th - 10.29am Singles Stapleford & 4 man team Bowmaker event - Sponsored by Garages & Gates & Exmouth Engineering
July 19th - 10.29am Singles Stapleford sponsored by John Barnes Joinery
 

1          Phil Beynon                                         

2          Pat Lipp                                              

3          Mark Reynolds                                    

4          Roy Mitchell

5          Graham Taylor

6          Paul Marshall

7          Gerry Marshall

8          Steve Marshall

9          Matt Hawkins

10        Ken Wicks

11        Dave Lawson

12        Martin Jewell

13        Steve Latham

14        Graham Brown

15        Tony Townsend

16        Richard Beynon

17        Graham Clarkson

18        Gary Shrimpton

19        Rob Cox

20        Alan Burton

21        Stuart Kew

22        Simon Jeans

23        Mike Partridge

24        Alan Smith


A little about the course;

 

This venue designed by Hamilton Stutt who also designed the Old course at St Mellion has something for everyone. Big hitters will like the holes where you can open the shoulders and let rip whilst the more accurate among us will prefer the narrow tree lined challenges. Those who’s game is not up to scratch (and I count myself amongst them) can be content with some of the finest views to be seen across the bay to St Austell as well as the local nudist beach!

It is perhaps no coincidence that that the awesome Eden project, where the world’s differing climates are recreated under enormous domes and the relevant plant life allowed to thrive, is no more than a couple of miles away from a Golf course which, in parts, seems itself to have copied parts of the Garden of Eden. This Championship-length course – just short of 6,600 yards – has such lush fairways and manicured greens, surrounded by an abundance of vegetation, that it is more reminiscent of the American Carolinas than Cornwall.

But that is only half the story of this unusual course, for it starts off as a cliff top track with magnificent views of the rugged coastline before cloaking its fangs in some luxurious foliage. It is a dramatic change around the turn, when suddenly the wide-open spaces vanish and accuracy becomes the name of the game through the tree and vegetation-lined back nine. Designer Hamilton Stutt must have been mischievously smug about this one back in the 1920s.

It is another of the Cornish devils that holds your interest right up to the 18th green, with the last hole, a par three 230-yarder, offering a railway line and a road as out of bounds.

Hotel & Complex Information;              www.carlyonbay.co.uk

Golf Course Information;                      www.carlyongolf.com