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Stoke Park Country Club, a lovely golf course and featured in numerous films including "Goldfinger", remember where Bond first meets Odd Job :)
The Red golfball is a Longridge Flashball No1 once hit flashes for about 5 minutes.
The Green golfball is unknown with Castelli's Ristorante printed on it, this ball glows in the dark!
I learned two things from my round yesterday.
1) My brother and I both suck at golf.
2) I suck just a little bit less than he does.
One thing we can both agree on, the 19th hole is a welcomed sight!
We are off to the leafy suburbs of South Dublin today courtesy of the Eason collection. I am fully expecting that we can identify the location, the names of the 3 men, the make and model of the fancy motor car and finally the date on which this photo was taken!
With usual aplomb (we're barely surprised any more), today's contributors established that this is almost certainly Grange Golf Club in Rathfarnham, most likely captured in the mid-1930s (probably after the new club house opened in 1935), and the car pictured possibly a mid-1930s Morris Motors automobile....
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Eason Photographic Collection
Date: Between ca. 1900-1939 (possibly mid-1930s)
NLI Ref: EAS_1906
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
The strange thing is, I don't believe there is a place to golf for 20 miles. It appears that some of the artwork on the side of the building was done by ( or heavily influenced by ) Tyree Guyton and the folks at the Heidelberg Project. Where the tree has grown is where one of the front doors USED to be. The penthouse was located just to the right of this shot ( it looks like a shed attached to the building, very strange ) . This building was demolished during the first week of December 2007.
Not being much of a golfer , I was able to enjoy the amenities of this splendid clubhouse , without bothering with the other 18 holes !!!! This is the St Lucia clubhouse .
A lone golfer on his way to the clubhouse. A slightly different angle from my previous posting of this scene; more emphasis on the golfer who is much more central in this one.
Almost makes me want to take up golf
From 1066 the estate was inherited in a direct line of descent for 515 years until it had to be sold to the Crown in 1581 to pay the outstanding debts of Henry Hastings, the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, whose father Francis, the Commander in Chief of Henry VIII’s army, had rebuilt the Manor House (part of which can still be seen today) in 1555.
John Penn (1760 - 1834) a scholar, poet and prolific patron of architecture was responsible for most of what can still be seen at the Club today. Penn spent a large proportion of the compensation (£130,000) he was given by the new United States Government for his family's 26 million acres in Pennsylvania on building the new Mansion, landscape and monuments.
The Mansion was designed by James Wyatt, architect to George III, who worked on the development of the house and monuments from 1790 to 1813. The historic parkland is the product of two geniuses of the eighteenth century, ‘Capability’ Brown and Humphry Repton, who designed the landscape we see today in 1792.
The estate was used as a private residence until 1908 when ‘Pa’ Lane Jackson, founder of the Corinthian Sporting Club, purchased the estate, turning it into Britain's finest country club. H. S. Colt (who also designed Pinevalley, Wentworth, Sunningdale, Muirfield and Royal Portrush) was engaged to design the golf course.
M-MPTO Canadair CL-600-2A12 Challenger 601, N19XY Hawker Siddeley Dominie T1 19th Hole Kemble 7 December 2014
The 19th Hole, the Little Willie & the Knotty Gurl prepare for the start of the race. Other rafts have not arrived yet.
After Saturday's eventful expedition through the Seymour backcountry, I felt in the mood for something a little more predictable for Sunday.
And as luck would have it, Andrew texted me as I was beginning my trek back from the Elsay Lake Trail and offered up a tantalizing morcel that consisted of some shuttling in Squamish with Mitch and Co from Cove Bikes. Obviously, I was keen, and jumped at the opportunity.
So at 8AM Andrew and I departed El Nora Royale for the parking lot at Quest University, where we watched a Fat Kid Summer Camp while waiting for the Cove Team to show up and start shuttling. After two AWESOME laps of 19th Hole to Psuedo Tsuga, we loaded up Tom's new GMC pickup with 9 bikes and riders (yes, 9) and headed up to do a lap of Plastic Galactic Shizen which was a SUPER awesome and delightfully long descent. An 8km descent length had been tossed around at some point, and I'd be willing to believe it.
This lookout, where Andrew Summers, Handsome Gentleman Extraordinaire, snapped this photo of me is probably 2/3 of the way down, and we still have to go all the way to less than 50m above sea level before we're done.
SUCH. AN. AWESOME. RIDE.
Big thanks to Andrew for inviting me along (and taking this photo) and Mitch, Tom, Annie, Shane, Christian (aka Shorty), Jen and Kerry for the awesome ride!
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This is the last we would see of the 19th Hole. They drifted south until the tide started to come back in. At that point the drifted north. I understand they paddled to shore and phoned a friend.
In spite of the DNF the 19th Hole would receive the Committee Choice Award.
Colorful ifeguard chairs for sale at Soo Pass Ranch – home of WE Fest and the 10,000 Lakes Music Festival. Near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, Jul 20, 2009.
The Belfry Hotel, famous for The Brabazon golf course, which has hosted more Ryder Cup tournaments than any other course.