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the shizzle => bouldering => Topic started by: Fiend on August 12, 2022, 12:59:33 pm
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Big up the golf massive in the massif. Was chatting about this last night. I have a habit of ending up at crags near golf courses, finding plenty of golf courses, and then giving them to my dad (who has been a keen golfer, out of action now so if anyone wants my balls, PM me).
So what are the most classic golf course / crag combos?? A few off the top of my head :bounce:
Bell Hagg - that old chestnut although I suspect balls disappear into the woods down the hill.
Egerton Quarry - getting a bit intimate with this one, haven't found many balls yet but have pre-placed one in a crack.
Llanymynech - I never new there was a course right above this, might have to go to the shitty wee quarry beneath it next time.
Porth Dinllaen - you even get to walk through the golf course, with your pads as a shield. Plenty of balls but all firmly wedged in sea-level crevices.
Tarlair - an off-piste Moray Coast gem with an enticing photo in the book. There were bloody loads here IIRC....
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Pwllglas and White Goods is as close as it’s possible to get seeing as the crag actually burrows under the rough there
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Literally on a golf course:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/eaves_crag-20665/
Which reminds me that the three central lines there haven't been soloed as far as I know.
Literally next to a golf course:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/low_eaves_delph-17722/
Long Drop Arete is a ultra-mega-neo-classic obvs.
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Little Rock City, aka Stone Fort (https://www.stoneforttn.com/)in Chattanooga
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Bell Hagg - that old chestnut although I suspect balls disappear into the woods down the hill.
I always find gold balls there. I drop them on the fairway on my way back home. Found a bent golf club that had presumably been slung by a frustrated player once :lol: .
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Frodsham .
Anyway, what would Jerry do?
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Jerry can be seen playing at the Bell Hagg golf course from 2:07 here
https://youtu.be/HECed_3ULnM
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Gold balls!! Now they'd be worth keeping. Great Jerry link, cheers.
Andy as soon as I saw you'd replied, I'd realised I'd forgot Frodsham, now with that one surely any balls that end up going over the crag will roll down to the road below!
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I forgot Giggleswick South. Okay with it being past the road and well up the hill, the ball action is likely to be limited, but it even has a Sector Golf.
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Frodsham golf course is fallow right now, they went bust - really odd seeing the manicured course gone wild.
Can I offer up Hangingstone, Leics? Honourable mention for golf ball wall at Llanddulas but not actually on a golf course.
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Can I suggest Dunnerholme up on the lakes coast. You have to cross a golf course to get to the crag.
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We can have both of those but Llandulas gets a dishonourable mention for deceptive naming.