{"id":1027,"date":"2021-08-31T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:22:30","slug":"blacknest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/blacknest\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacknest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Blacknest-dog-golf-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"413\" height=\"352\" title=\"Blacknest dog golf 4\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Blacknest dog golf 4\" src=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Blacknest-dog-golf-4_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\"><i>Welcome<\/i> \u2013 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doggolf.info\/DogGolfDB\/Golf%20Course%20Profile.aspx?resort=353\"><font color=\"#008000\">Blacknest<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#008000\"> was very happy to have Grace along (as long as kept on a lead).<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\"><i>Walk<\/i> \u2013 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/wrag-barn\/\"><font color=\"#008000\">Another relaxing flat course<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#008000\"> to provide a leisurely stroll which 13 year old Grace is increasingly happy to see.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\"><i>Water<\/i> \u2013 Blacknest seemed like the Venice of English golf courses. After the first hole every single hole of the front 9 had a water hazard to cross or flanking ominously from the side. Except for the 7<sup>th<\/sup> hole \u2026which had TWO hazards to cross approaching the par 3 green. And that\u2019s not counting the myriad of drainage ditches crisscrossing the course (see course map at bottom). Also, Hole 9 has a well outfitted halfway hut with water faucets. So no problem with thirst.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\"><i>Wildlife<\/i> \u2013 Lots of water means lots of waterfowl \u2013 ducks, geese, coots. Pretty much the full British lake menagerie.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\"><i>Wind Down<\/i> \u2013 Actually, not a wind down nor warm up, but a wait out. The front 9 was moving as slow as molasses due to an earlier society event, a newbie foursome bumbling along and lots of two-balls. We decided to ditch the playing and have a halfway hiatus (hole 9 doesn\u2019t finish that close to the clubhouse so you have to walk the length of the par 5 Hole 18.). We had a delightful and very reasonably priced lunch at The Nest Caf\u00e9.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"424\" height=\"300\" title=\"image\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image_thumb.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Blacknest-dog-golf-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"183\" height=\"244\" title=\"Blacknest dog golf 2\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Blacknest dog golf 2\" src=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Blacknest-dog-golf-2_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome \u2013 Blacknest was very happy to have Grace along (as long as kept on a lead). Walk \u2013 Another relaxing flat course to provide a leisurely stroll which 13 year old Grace is increasingly happy to see. Water \u2013 Blacknest seemed like the Venice of English golf courses. After the first hole every single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}