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Paul_Turner

Copt Heath-Minor Colt Course
« on: November 21, 2002, 11:45:08 AM »


Another lesser known Colt course in the English Midlands.  Harry Vardon designed the original course and this was heavily redesigned by Colt who was responsible for the heavy use of bunkers.  The course looks a bit "vertically challenged" and so I think Colt added all these bunkers to spice things up a bit.  Like many of Colt's current parkland courses (as we saw with Edgbaston) the bunker edges are sharp and the sand flashed up.  I think that some of the shape and size of these bunkers may have been lost over the years, but overall the course is well preserved.

Looks like the trees need to be cut back and there's absolutely no sign of a "heath", apart from the odd gorse bush.

On the plus side, it looks like it plays nice and fast (a brownish sheen in some places) and the fairway bunkers are true fairway bunkers i.e. surrounded by fairway!  

Hopefully I'll check it out one day.  

Like the Edgbaston thread, these photos are nicked from the Warwickshire Golf Union website, I'm sure they don't mind!



1st Fairway Bunkers


2nd Fairway Bunkers


3rd Green Complex


4th Fairway Bunkers


4th Green Complex


5th


6th Approach


7th Fairway Bunkers


7th Approach


8th Fairway Bunkers


Further back


10th


11th bunkers short of green


12th Cross Bunkers


13th Green


14th Green Complex


14th-showing severe slope


15th Staggered Bunkers


17th Approach


Bank behind 17th green


Bunkers at 18th


Other side


From behind 18th.






































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bodgeblack

Re: Copt Heath-Minor Colt Course
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2002, 05:03:51 AM »
Paul

thanks for tracking down these photos for us.  really interesting.

Pity about the lack of heath, i hate think how many courses we have in GB that through unknowledgable management have lost their original habitat.

The thing that immiediatly hit me was a number of immature trees conspicuously placed (esp. No.2 fairway).  All the classic signs of Greens Commitee wanting to leave their own special mark on their beloved course!

Reminds me of West Surrey GC in many ways

cheers
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