Temple
Posted in New courses reviewed
In recent years Temple GC has been at the forefront of the trend back to sustainable fine golf. This story of restoration, which undoubtedly involved things becoming worse before they improved, is brilliantly chronicled by the then Chairman of Green, Malcolm Peake, in two STRI books “Confessions of a Chairman of Green” and “A Natural Course for Golf”. These two books should be required reading for all Green Committees and indeed all those golfers who like to complain ‘why can’t we have a course like I saw on television ?’
Willie Park Jnr, a double Open champion and architect of nearby Sunningdale Old and Huntercombe, was invited to create this course in 1909, that Donald Steel describes as “challenging enough to keep good players at full stretch without diminishing the enjoyment of the rank and file”…..