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What Makes a Great Golf Course?

So what makes a great golf course?

The world is good, average and poor even for the full layout To test, we will itself, but often the distinction of "big", which in our view, is the type of course you would try to play it before you not die at all costs.

It's an appropriate question for two reasons.

First, because there is no written or objective criteria to define the size. And secondly, because Kingsbarns, just outside St Andrews, has so far found in the form of awards and recognition has since its opening in 2000 that it has already earned the name of a larger scale.

But while the criteria for such labeling does not appear in a rule book Perhaps here in Mulligan, we should examine our own terms.

First, of course, must be a unforgettable – no mercy in this list. If you have a layout only played once, and have difficulty recalling the difference between 1 and 18, or can not to get directly to the best holes spirit, it is not good enough.

Secondly, they should offer a real challenge, Golf, but that does not just mean that it is hard – the Blue Monster at Doral is fiendishly difficult, but it is not great. Pine Valley is both.

Third, it should be difficult and require careful thought or a few visits to the test is properly assessed, and probably the best example of a subtle test is the Old Course of St. Andrews.

Fourth is the aesthetic splendor, but as with all things, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For some of the rugged and wild landscape of Royal Dornoch is Carne or unattractive, but for golfers, they represent the Mona Lisa.

Finally, the almost indefinable element of the atmosphere is or would like atmosphere or ambience or label that others can take. In some places, giving millions of pounds and employ the best minds in the world golf somehow disappointed, while others say that 'wow' factor of almost penetrates the soil, so it seems.

One such place is Kingsbarns. Although golf was in this part of the coast of Fife played since 1793, virtually nothing from the original course was to co-owner Mark Paršin and architect Kyle Phillips, moved 300,000 cubic meters Earth to create the present-day course. In the process they discovered a burn that nobody knew (and the concept of golfers from the 18.), but worth noting an important Role of the Kingsbarns they created looks as if it there since time began.

Each and every hole has a view of the sea, more than half of them It is noticeable in your EyeLine how you play, and several in parallel to the coastline is probably the most impressive that Kingsbarns is like Augusta National, as well as encouraging for high handicappers as well as for tour pros. At 6652 yards (par 72) from green tea to visitors, it is not long and, like many other good songs, it starts relatively easy, before the user more questions.

It, too, we are pleased to say, a fan of the good, short par four, in danger of becoming a neglected part the armory of the Gulf's architects. This will take the example of the 6th, the only 287 meters, which offers a shorter but like all good holes, you is a choice and a decision. Knock a long iron or hybrid exactly the two bunkers and stop short of them with a relatively simple wedge to the green that you can not see, and the runs from you removed. Take a big stick, aim to the right and enter the bunker, however, and you land on a narrow fairway that feeds to the putting surface, with a chance of eagle and birdie likely. But go a little too much, and you'll be on a bank of heavy grass underhit and you will be in Sand – a classic risk / / Return the strategic hole.

Later in the round, a quartet of holes 12-15 is that a comparison is with anything in the world, and the Augusta Nationally famous Amen Corner contains. It includes an impressive par five dogleg from right to left, close to the coast and is reminiscent of the 19th in Pebble Beach, a short but challenging par three, is nestled on a dramatic cliff, a short par four, a weakling, but seems to flatter to deceive, and be another par three, the green, which seems almost in the ocean.

The first time he set eyes on the place, Sir Michael Bonallack, former Secretary of the R & A and British Amateur champion five times, said: "Kingsbarns might well be one of the last true sea links websites, development Scotland. Mere words can not convey how extraordinary place. It must be seen to be able to believe. And if it is seen will never forget. " He is not a man there to exaggerate.

Kingsbarns, the proportion of the bunker but not too many, it has not purposely done broom, because it is almost impossible to to extract a golf ball, and no forced labor, heroic bear. Mark illegals who studied several courses of the largest in Scotland before he himself with his own Kyle Phillips Layout design and concluded that, above all golfers should walk from the 18th with a smile on her face, not after, as if they had just gone 10 rounds with Lennox Lewis.

To further this philosophy, he took the Augusta National approach, ie, in its simplest form, that is always from tee to green relatively simple, But if you want to score, you must be in the right part of the green. The putting surfaces are very large and are subtle (and sometimes very obvious, filled) waves, which means that a straight putt a rarity and the first part of your game, which is in perfect condition must be, your putting stroke. The greens are also in excellent condition throughout the year through the end of March – mainly thanks to the policies of the course of closing the end of November each year and re-opening.

Kingsbarns not to negotiate over the rough, jagged appearance of a Neanderthal Doonbeg or Royal County Down, with giant dunes and hills, but it is a gentle, soft landscape, where it is easily with the surroundings and where, as PG Wodehouse once wrote, feel a different course: "All nature seems to cry" Fore! "" It is built by golfers for golfers, and nowhere is this more evident than the simple clubhouse, providing all that the 19 Hole should be – comfortable, sociable and is comfortable. Oh, and none of your fancy nouveau cuisine, there's the kind of grub that you need after a round of golf – solid burger and chips on the size your thumb.

Kingsbarns is expensive – 2008 Green fees are £ 130 in April and May, and £ 170 from June to November – but it's worth, and if you get the chance, you should put your cup Grandma get there.

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