Royal Ashdown Forest

We got some golf lined up for tomorrow at the glorious Royal Ashdown Forest. It may be raining cats and dogs today but it's bound to clear up for tomorrow. Of course. Well just checked and the weathers no shoe in, but we'll be there in our waterproofs, unleashing hell - well, maybe the odd decent drive.

Royal Ashdown for those who don't know is one of those rare courses with no bunkers on it. It's no that long either, but that still doesn't make it easy. It has been a Open Championship Regional qualifying venue, so clearly the R&A are impressed. Just checked and its still on the list for 2009. I'm sure a part of its attraction for the R&A is that its still a really old school course, in the best sense. The old school test for me is if they have a load of combs in a jar of some strange mixture of antiseptic in the changing rooms. I'll have to get a picture to make my point, but it does hark back to a different era when chaps coming off the course would give their hair a good comb over before getting the blazer on and going for a livener in the bar.