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Birley Wood

birley wood

Sheffield

Birley Wood Golf Club is a small friendly golf club that was founded in 1974, Golf Club membership starts from £80 for a junior and £553 for 5 day membership and £661 for 7 day membership. These costs include Green Fees and membership of Birley Wood Golf Club (details on membership form) The golf club run a number of competitions internal and external, join a golf club where you can get a handicap and meet new friends. Birley Wood Golf Club have a history of encouraging juniors to progress to their full potential and 2 notable previous Juniors are Danny Willett 2016 Masters Champion and member of The European Tour and Joe Dean member of The Challenge Tour The golf course is located in South of Sheffield. Birley Wood Golf Course is an idyllic, stress-free yet challenging golf course that is ideal for golfers of all levels. Beginners and young players will enjoy the ups and downs of Birley Wood Golf Course that can enhance their overall game. Experienced players will relish in the charming putting surfaces and exceptional short game of the Fairways Course. Birley Wood Golf Course is a friendly and welcoming course with well varied features and makes for a very relaxed and uncompromising golf experience. Based on a plateau at the top of one of Sheffield’s seven hills, the course benefits from an excellent drainage system ensuring that even during bad spells of weather the course still plays well and is still open when others are closed. Players can enjoy the highest of year round standards on well kept greens and well-drained fairways. Birley Wood Golf Course is managed by Sheffield International Venues Ltd (SIV) which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sheffield City Trust (SCT).

Green Ash Chairs

green ash chairs

Starting with a freshly cut log you will make your own chair and, at the end of the course, take it home with you. Hopefully it will be a friend for life and something to bequeath to future generations! If you are looking for a digital de-tox, a few days in the woods and learning something new, this course might be for you. By following a few commonsense rules, anyone can work with greenwood tools safely and proficiently. If you like working with your hands you can discover for yourself the joy of making something useful and beautiful from green wood. No previously learned skills are required. However some may find the course physically taxing. The working day is long, from 9.00 am till 6.00 pm each day. img_0087.jpg The course instructor is Peter Young. Peter recently retired from directing a study retreat centre in the Scottish Borders. He is passionate about green woodworking and has learned yurt-making from the legendary Hal Wynne-Jones and chairmaking from the equally legendary Mike Abbott. Mike has done more than anyone else in the UK to rescue green woodworking from oblivion, and is supportive of these courses. Peter feels deeply that this traditional type of work has wisdom in it, respecting both the materials and ourselves. 'We can learn a lot from it,' he says. 'We work with Nature, not against it. We use only local, sustainably grown timber, often from coppiced woodland. Every bit is used and nothing wasted. But more than this, we try to see what the particular log is doing, how the grain is flowing and from this we learn what part it wants to play in the whole chair.' Where are the courses? The course venue is Broughtonknowe, a privately owned wood, 25 miles south of Edinburgh on the A701. By car, it is within easy reach for commuting daily from Edinburgh (45mins) and 75 minutes from Carlisle. The course takes place in a quarry within the woodland. The quarry has greened up over the past hundred years, creating a beautiful sheltered setting for outdoor activities.