About the only thing that disappointed me about the film was that they didn't jump the fences between courses, but clearly went by car/minibus (I assume that with lunch at Deal and dinner at Sandwich not many would be driving themselves -- I would still like to do the ranking of the Booziest Golf Clubs in the World that I have been talking about for many years, and I'm pretty certain that RCP would score highly, I have less experience of RSG).
Can folks walk down the beach from Deal to Sandwich and access (I spose the 5th tee?) just by hopping a fence?
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So far as I can tell, you could walk up the foreshore -- there is a pathway along the seafront, it's part of the Saxon Shore Way long distance path, and if I remember correctly, it runs along the seawall dune. By the sailing and waterski club, it becomes a proper road, Prince's Drive, and there is a low post and rail fence along the left of Prince's Drive once you pass the end of King's Avenue and the RSG course starts. Alternatively you could walk up the Sandwich Bay Estate road and into RSG up the entrance drive, but obviously that is longer.
So far as I can tell, the most efficient way to do it as a single walk, starting at Deal, would be to play RCP 1-10, walk up the coast, hop over the fence and start George's from the sixth, the Maiden, and go as far as the thirteenth. Then you'd jump the fence to Prince's and start on the seventh of the Shore. Obviously you'd play Prince's, presumably the Shore and Dunes (but I suppose you could do the Hims instead of the Dunes if you wanted, or even in addition if you were a true masochist), finishing on Shore sixth. Perhaps break for lunch after Shore ninth, at which point you'd have played twenty-one holes? After finishing at Prince's you'd jump the fence again, play the Canal hole and round to the fifth at RSG. Then back onto the road and down to Deal, finishing the day by playing in from the eleventh.
The run home at RCP would be one hell of a way to finish a day like that!