European golf tour coming to Doncaster

[donnyguy61]

http://www.doncaster.gov.uk/db/enews/article.asp?Archive=&CatID=31&Art=6231

[RobTheRover]

That's good news.  The countryside around Rossington Hall is stunning.  I used to knock about round there as a kid.  We made a brilliant BMX track in the woods.  Nearly killed myself on many occasions.

[roversontheup]

 That sounds fantastic news.

[IC1967]

I wouldn't get too excited. Thanks to Sky dominating golf coverage the sport is on the decline (just like boxing).

[roversontheup]

Well I am excited. What's not to be excited about European Golf Tour coming to Doncaster?  Watch it right on our doorstep.  Not to mention the new facilities that will be available.

I can't wait to see the plans.

[Filo]

I drop off regurlally at Norther Racing college at Rossington Hall, I often think what a marvelous setting for a top class tournement golf course, glad this is happening

[rtid88]

I would have to totally disagree with IC1967, I think golf is on the up and I hear of more people talking about playing it and watching it than I ever remember before!

I'm sure he will come back with some stat he has found on the internet somewhere but hey!

[Al4475]

It's a great game and is generally far more accesible than before! Many good golf courses around donny that'll let people play a twilight round in a buggy for circa £10-£15! An even better course that can host euro tour would be amazing! Owston hall/robin hood had the euro-pro tour a few years back, bawtry, wheatley, doncaster, styrrup are all good courses too! Nowhere near as expensive or exclusive as it used to be! Can't wait to see how this develops!

[BobG]

Around these parts golf has become a rash. New courses springing up all over the bloody place. You can hardly move these days without tripping over another one. So I can't see where Mick has got his data from either. It's most definitely not true round here.

Have anothet go Mick? If you try long enough, you're bound to get one right in the end.

BobG

[Filo]

It's a great game and is generally far more accesible than before! Many good golf courses around donny that'll let people play a twilight round in a buggy for circa £10-£15! An even better course that can host euro tour would be amazing! Owston hall/robin hood had the euro-pro tour a few years back, bawtry, wheatley, doncaster, styrrup are all good courses too! Nowhere near as expensive or exclusive as it used to be! Can't wait to see how this develops!

I like Robin hood course at Owston, but as you say Al, we're lucky around here, we have many quality courses around Donny, even the council one at Crookhill is top drawer

[RobTheRover]

It's a great game and is generally far more accesible than before! Many good golf courses around donny that'll let people play a twilight round in a buggy for circa £10-£15! An even better course that can host euro tour would be amazing! Owston hall/robin hood had the euro-pro tour a few years back, bawtry, wheatley, doncaster, styrrup are all good courses too! Nowhere near as expensive or exclusive as it used to be! Can't wait to see how this develops!

I like Robin hood course at Owston, but as you say Al, we're lucky around here, we have many quality courses around Donny, even the council one at Crookhill is top drawer

I used to be a member at Crookhill GC.  That front nine is an absolute card-wrecker if you go chasing dropped shots.

[knockers]

I played the one at Haxey Gate on Sunday morning. It's got nine holes but 18 tees. £7.50 each and I then used a purple voucher so only £3.75 each. They are plying on summer greens apart from one hole as well. Nice little course par 70.

[roversontheup]

Agree with most on here. I think we are blessed with quite a few public courses around Doncaster. It makes it affordable to many who otherwise wouldn't afford to join a private club.

Excited about a top class course coming to us too.  Won't be playing on there myself for the foreseeable future but I can dream 😊⛳️⛳️

[IC1967]

I would have to totally disagree with IC1967, I think golf is on the up and I hear of more people talking about playing it and watching it than I ever remember before!

I'm sure he will come back with some stat he has found on the internet somewhere but hey!

Unlike you I make statements that I can back up. Any fool knows golf is on the decline. It's not just this country. The US is also suffering the same fate.

Why am I virtually the only one on this forum that can back up everything they say?

Here's a link to a couple of the countless articles that prove my point. Read them and weep (and get an abject apology sorted).

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/lee-westwood-british-open-moving-to-sky-sports-an-absolute-disgrace-1.2087037

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/sale-of-british-open-rights-to-sky-hard-to-justify-as-player-numbers-decline-1.2087276

Game, set and match.

[IC1967]

Around these parts golf has become a rash. New courses springing up all over the bloody place. You can hardly move these days without tripping over another one. So I can't see where Mick has got his data from either. It's most definitely not true round here.

Have anothet go Mick? If you try long enough, you're bound to get one right in the end.

BobG

I've got news for you. Doncaster is just a very small part of the UK. Read my previous post and get an abject apology sorted pronto.

[Filo]

Around these parts golf has become a rash. New courses springing up all over the bloody place. You can hardly move these days without tripping over another one. So I can't see where Mick has got his data from either. It's most definitely not true round here.

Have anothet go Mick? If you try long enough, you're bound to get one right in the end.

BobG

I've got news for you. Doncaster is just a very small part of the UK. Read my previous post and get an abject apology sorted pronto.

Oh dear!

[i_ateallthepies]

I think 'stymied' would have been a more ap't way to put the boot in Mick, but instead you put your foot in your mouth.

[IC1967]

I think 'stymied' would have been a more ap't way to put the boot in Mick, but instead you put your foot in your mouth.

Don't think so. I've well and truly won the argument again.

IC1967

[wilts rover]

Unfortunately Mick is correct. I know this as there has been a fair bit in the cycling press/media about for a year or so now as apparently 'cycling is the new golf'. So see you all for a club run next weekend.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/30422698

[BobG]

What on earth are you on about Mick? I said golf clubs are springing up all over the place round here. They are. Can you not read as well as not use a dictionary? Well, I guess you'd never need a dictionary then would you...

BobG

[IC1967]

Unfortunately Mick is correct. I know this as there has been a fair bit in the cycling press/media about for a year or so now as apparently 'cycling is the new golf'. So see you all for a club run next weekend.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/30422698

That's very magnanimous of you Wilts. Some of the others around here could learn from you. We may not see eye to eye on many issues but I do have a healthy respect for your views. You just always happen to be wrong (on most things).

Now the rest of you get an abject apology sorted pronto. 

[BobG]

There you go Mick. Wanting apologies again. When you grow up you'll learn that adults don't make repeated demands for apologies when engaged in debate. They learn.

It's that complex of yours again isn't it? You know the one. That inferiority complex. It makes you demand that you are always seen to be right. Even when you know you're not.

Poor lad.

BobG

[TheFunk]

Where I live the golf course market has become saturated. About 10 years ago Flaxby course was built with plans for a luxury hotel and ambitions to apply for the 2022 Ryder Cup. It's a superb course and slap bang next to the A1 so ideally placed.

Guess what. It closes at the end of this month, with plans to build a whole new village on the course with approximately 2,500 houses.

[The Red Baron]

I would have to totally disagree with IC1967, I think golf is on the up and I hear of more people talking about playing it and watching it than I ever remember before!

I'm sure he will come back with some stat he has found on the internet somewhere but hey!

Unlike you I make statements that I can back up. Any fool knows golf is on the decline. It's not just this country. The US is also suffering the same fate.

Why am I virtually the only one on this forum that can back up everything they say?

Here's a link to a couple of the countless articles that prove my point. Read them and weep (and get an abject apology sorted).

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/lee-westwood-british-open-moving-to-sky-sports-an-absolute-disgrace-1.2087037

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/golf/sale-of-british-open-rights-to-sky-hard-to-justify-as-player-numbers-decline-1.2087276

Game, set and match.

Those articles are about the decision to sell the rights to screen the British Open to Sky rather than the BBC. It will mean more money for golf in the short term but a decline in public interest in the sport in the longer term. Just what has happened with cricket.