Foursomes golf
The game of Foursomes golf where a team of two players take alternative shots is the most difficult and to some the most enjoyable form of the game.
It requires that extra layer of thinking psychology as to how to help your partner play well, on top of playing well yourself.
It also often makes it more difficult to get your own game into a rythmn when perhaps you don’t have a long putt or use a driver for many holes.
The majority of golfers prefer fourball play. Foursomes is often regarded as only playing half the course and thereby missing out on the utilitarian ‘value for money’ test.
For those who prefer playing quickly and the sociablity of foursomes, I have drawn up a list of clubs where foursomes is the favoured game. It is interesting to note that they nearly all also welcome dogs as well as being some of the ‘finest’ golf clubs in the UK!
Royal West Norfolk at Brancaster, Aldeburgh, Swinley Forest, Muirfield, Rye, West Sussex, Royal Ashdown, Royal Worlington and Newmarket, Ganton, New Zealand, Woking, Royal St Georges, Royal Cinque Ports at Deal, Prestwick, Huntercombe, Littlestone.
The Berkshire, Sunningdale, Walton Heath and Frilford Heath, rotate their two/three courses between 2 and 4 ballplay.
Royal County Down , Hunstanton, and Piltdown I am told reserve a decent amount of Tee-time for 2-ball matches.
The accuracy of the above is not guaranteed! and we would welcome further information on other clubs. Do send a comment below
Some helpful tips on playing foursomes golf:-
1) Always carry your putter on to the green irrespective of the length of your partner’s putt, thereby saving them further embarrassment, as you go off to get your putter, when they miss it!
2) If playing scratch foursomes, restrain your curiosity as to the opponents handicaps. To know they are higher or lower than your own, will not help your psychology in beating them. Perhaps over a beer afterwards they can be divulged!
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