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Sean_A:
While Hartlepool GC is older than 1907, it wasn’t until this year that a new course was built on Hart Warren. The course is accessed via a tunnel through a substantial railroad embankment which cuts it off from the hub bub of town. W Park Jr finished off an 18-hole course around 1911. James Braid made some significant changes in the late 1920s. It is clear modern alterations were made when a new clubhouse was built in the early 1960s. I suspect the land to the south where the old house was located had a few holes on the high ground. Which would mean some of the holes on the agricultural half of the course north of the house must be newish. The end result is about an equal split of holes in the dunes and the flat. It is the holes in the dunes which bring us to Hartlepool.

I will get to it from the get go, I am not impressed with Hartlepool's flat, agricultural holes on heavier soil. Although the opener is mildly interesting as a 254 yarder with OoB left. The green is built up with a tongue jutting toward the tee. 


Skipping to the 4th, the terrain is so flat that I didn't see this burn short of the green.


We now transition to the dunes on the short 5th.


The hole is acceptable, but it is the setting overlooking Crimdon Beach which impresses.




The blind 6th gets the show going.  The hole is straight though it may pay to give the dunes on the left some extra leeway. Once cresting the dune we can see the green beyond a great crevasse sitting high on a sandbank.


While a short two-shotter, going for the green in one may prove fool-hearty.


Looking at the green from the 8th tee.


More to follow.

Ciao

Ally Mcintosh:
Thanks for this one, Sean - I know nothing of Hartlepool and that 6th hole looks like a beauty!

Sean_A:
Yer welcome Ally

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The course continues in the dunes for the short 7th over another crevasse...a theme for the short holes in the dunes. One of the issues with the routing is most of the dune holes run northwest to to southeast.




While only a bit more substantive than the 5th, yet just as beautiful.




The meaty 8th descends diagonally from the dunes to the flat....its a good if expected hole.  Nine turns back toward the house. Perhaps the most interesting aspect is the rig and furrow fairway.


As is the case with the 9th, I think 10 is a Braid hole. Quite different from the other dune holes, the 10th plunges straight toward the sea.


A straight drive at the cut has every chance of paying dividends. There isn't much joy in cutting blindly across a dune. Hartlepool doesn't benefit from polished shaping, but it does have an aura which is appealing.


More to follow.

Ciao

Sean_A:
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We face a formidable big one-shotter at the 11th. When into a stiff breeze, the uphill nature of the hole can cause concern regarding the carry.


The green has a bit more to it than the other short holes in the dunes.


Looking back toward the tee.


The funneling effect to the false front makes the carry element of the tee shot that much more meaningful.




Another short hole taking us to the inward side of the dunes in style. This is some memorial! H'Angus the Monkey makes another appearance.


Downhill, but designed as a bounce in hole, the 12th is a keeper.


Looking back to the tee.


More to follow.

Ciao

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