Turned up at the Golf Club today a bit earlier than my usual 10.00am, and, as I was driving up towards the entrance road, I noticed that there were less cars in the car park than usual.  As I drove in I could see the "Course Closed" sign and wondered just how much rain we could have had overnight!

WhenI got in the Pro-shop, I noticed the booking sheet had something written across it:-

Course Closed - overhead power cables down!!

We have a power line that goes across the 1st, 18th, 15th 14th and 13th, but they rarely come into play, except for the very best drives off the 14th, long 2nd shots into the 13th (i.e. following crap tee shots), and skyed tee shots at 18.  We also have one Category 1 player who managed to hit the ones over the 15th fairway off the 15th tee, but he is probably the longest hitter in the Club!

This excuse for course closure is the strangest I've ever come across, but maybe some of you guys have seen stranger.

Obviously not !!!

The 100+ people who viewed obviously thought the same

I've never had a course closed other than for weather reasons.

Probably the club had to shut the course if the cables were still live as they would be paying out loads of money in compensation if they let people play and one of them got killed!

Russ

We had our game held up for a while once as the Air Ambulance landed on an adjacent fairway to ferry away a casualty from a nearby road traffic accident.

Burnt out car middle of one of the fairways is one i'ev seen , took lots of time for grass to come back as insurance to give go ahead to move it...

Terry,

You are asking where a whole Course is closed for an incident? Many seem to have had Holes taken out of play for an incident (last few replies) so if you had asked about "Part Closures" you may have got more replies.

TheLyth

never seen anything like that but my local course that im a member of has been closed a fair bit the last couple of weeks due to the non stop rain. its been raining heavy over here pretty much every day for weeks and never get a chance to dry out. sucks tbh.

 as for the power lines down thats not happened but one day this august i was playing the 15th hole and as i had just stepped foot onto the green  i heard a huge groaning noise and the huge 50ft tree i had just walked under to get there came crashing down behind me. it was freaky there was me on the green and 2 boys on the fairway at the other side of it. was lucky it didnt come down a moment earlier or later. lol

I've only had a course closed due to snow.. I was gutted! After playing in rain, storms and everything but snow, I was looking forward to ticking 'snow' off my list!

When I look back now, I had absolutely no chance of getting on did I??

The Labour party once closed our local course because there was too much Conservative golf being played!

Thanks guys - some strange and interesting reasons out there for closing (parts of) courses.

We're closed at the moment due to snow.  I played on 1st, 2nd and 3rd January and now wondering when I'll next be able to get out there.

Here's hoping for a thaw for the weekend!

Here in Bournemouth the snow has been gone for 3 days, we had a big thaw on Sunday and Monday.

But the darn course is closed due to the deep frost, the ground is still like concrete.

Our local forecast claims temperatures of 5 to 7 degrees over the next few days, so hopefully things will improve.

I just wonder how many courses are finding this enforced closure is affecting their finances. Ours was taken over in September. And I have found out that the heating system went down 3 weeks ago, so the everything has been shut. 

The one's in the Algarve won't be closed when we're there in 24 days

yawn zzzzz

Overnight its seems like we've had a sh** load of snow Just when the ground looked like it was starting to thaw thank you very much ,

Does any one else find themselves arranging loads of games at the moment? I've even agreed to play with my possible future brother-in-law WTF???

We've had rain and strong winds for the last 24 hours. Now it's like a squishy bog outside.

There is a game organised. Although it's very hush hush. It takes place in  24 days time

, Hush hush,,

Its about time this cold front "Bogged off" and planted itself somewhere over Europe say the the Algarve and last for about 30 days.

Paul,

wait until the weekend & the warmer temperatures are coming, by the middle of next week it will all be gone.....hopefully

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr Flood

Wayne,

Don't be too sure, was out for new year and Salgados was closed on the 30th December.  It had about five puddles on the fairway when we tipped up.  The Algarve has experienced an amazing amount of rain this winter, and its now quite let up as of yet...!!

N