Six reasons why we love (and hate) autumn golf

10/31/2024 11:00 AM

For some golfers spring is the best season to play 18 holes. The Masters is often the prompt to get out there.

For most, summer will never be beaten – the best weather, the best conditioning, full value for every shot.

Not many golfers would say winter is their favourite season but autumn is often unfairly maligned.

Let's take a look at six reasons we love playing golf in what our American friends call the Fall.

The leaves

This is the season when golden leaves turn the trees into a festival of colour.

Reds, oranges, yellows and browns.

They look great on the trees, not bad on the ground and fantastic floating between the two.

There's also a problem, of course.

Finding your ball under those leaves can be a real pain and is there anything more awful than hitting the middle of a fairway and never finding a ball because it's been hidden by fallen leaves?

The golden sun

There is only one thing better than all those wonderful colours – a sensational sun that lights them up and casts a golden hue across the fairways and greens.

Unfortunately there's another problem.

That sunlight is often very low.

So low that peering into it can make it very difficult to see where your ball has gone.

Swings and roundabouts.

Lower prices

With colder temperatures and less sunlight, plus an awful lot of fair weather golfers, clubs and courses need to increase footfall in the autumn.

And that means the potential for some great deals.

It's an especially good time to start digging for excellent deals on links courses that might be out of your price bracket in high season.

Quieter courses

Your home club is likely to be less busy than usual, just like those others that you might want to visit.

That's a bonus because it means that although there are fewer hours of daylight it is entirely possible that you'll get round the course much quicker.

Getting layered up

Some golfers like nothing more than to pull on a pair of shorts.

But others prefer the chilly mornings.

Not just one golf glove but two mittens.

A nice warm under-shirt.

A favourite jumper.

A woolly hat.

Maybe even a scarf.

You can't beat wrapping up against the cold.

A cosy clubhouse

And after a nippy round (in both senses of the word – a bit chilly and also nice and quick) there is nothing better than hitting a nice cosy clubhouse.

A bowl of soup.

A couple of rounds of toast.

And then another nip – this time of whisky maybe.

Perfect.

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