- The Army course near Aldershot is
probably one of the nicest clubs and courses I have
visited and its one of the oldest clubs in Hampshire
previously owned by the Ministry of Defence and used by
the many Army camps located in
Aldershot
it became a private members club in 1960. You will not
find a better club for catering and service all the
staff and the members were very helpful and courteous
when we visited.
- The parkland course is fairly flat
with most of the holes lined with trees on both sides
and most of the holes have the odd scatter of gorse
bushes, there are also a number of streams cross the
fairways. The course is par 71 6550 yards long and opens
up with a straight par five called Canal because it has
a canal which runs along side the fairway. The next two
called
Malta
and Deer’s run are fairly easy straight par four’s,
these are followed by the fourth called Government House
a tricky dog par 4. The fifth called Amhem is the first
of the three par threes, it is 220 yards long with an
elevated green making it very difficult to land you ball
on the target and far harder than the marked stroke
index twelve. Holes six Devils Bowl and seven Graveyard
are both 350 yard par four doglegs. The eighth a 168
yard par three called The Somme. The front nine finishes
with Laffans a straight par four which has two bunkers
either side of the fairway 200 yards from the tee and
the green is two tiered. The back nine starts with a
fairly straight par four tenth called Dyke, your drive
is met by gorse on the left and a ditch running down the
right hand side. The eleventh Rowan a par four at 454
yard long is marked with the split remains of a tree on
the fairway which has a brass plaque memorial to the
club secretary Captain Parsons and his daughter Jessie,
during a round in 1923 somehow planted a Rowan tree on
the fairway. The twelve
Mount
Batten
is a long par five that doglegs right which is lined
with trees and a ditch on the right hand side. Hole
thirteen Thro the Gap, the fourteenth Raes Creek, the
fifteenth the clubs signature hole Spilway and the
sixteenth Waterloo are all par fours with trees either
side, mounds in the fairways and the odd ditch. The
seventeenth a par three called Alamein is 202 yards long
marked by two large bunkers and drop off the back of the
green. The final hole called Goose Green a straight par
four which take you back to the club house.
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