PUNCHBOWL GOLF Rotating Header Image

Posts Tagged ‘Harry Colt’

POSTCARDS FROM EUROPE- HOLLAND

ABN AMRO Ladies Open, Eindhoven Golf , the Netherlands
June 1st – 7th, 2009
As one who frequently enters and exits other’s lives visiting in brief, sporadic spells, I hope you can understand my reluctance to say good-bye. There are those who make such a point in saying it, as if it mattered a great deal to [...]

CHRIS HUNT”S PHOTO OF THE WEEK-9

So I haven’t been to Brancaster or Birkdale, but Rye gets my vote as coolest course in England, despite some snootiness, the blind shots (like here at the par-4 13th), and those crazy and singular ankle-breaker, sleeper-built, modified ha-ha walls to be found around about a third of the greens.  A particularly fine playing surface means the grounds [...]

CH’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK 3

If you are on the south coast of England, Isle of Purbeck Golf Club (the 5th hole shown above, a shortish four) is good for a game and downright absurd vistas of unbroken heathland and the Dorset coastline.  Harry Colt has design credits here, and while not necessarily the best preservation of his work, Purbeck [...]