There's more sun in Scotland - they say, every season every day, which includes Summer!
But, there may also be torrents of rain - I remember playing "against the flood" more than once when I was young and enthusiastic (2007 + 2009 + 2011).
Ashdown "West" is their second course, you probably played the "Old". There, we had problems due to no rain. A drought period had dried out the FWs, so the balls would bounce everywhere, predominantly to the bushes at the sides. It was a blast nevertheless, plenty tricky forest floor making the bunkers obsolete, and, on the 18th, an angelic white poncho blouse of 25 years would levitate over the course, in a group of young women ;)