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I am getting rather excited now about playing here on Saturday. Am setting off tomorrow and staying overnight at Broughty Ferry.
Reading about the course is certainly scary, the SSS of the Reds is 77, and the course is over 6000yds, pretty monstrous for someone with my distance.
I will be more than happy if I break 100, although I will most likely come away with a 0.1 increase, it should be fun (I am a bit of a masochist!)
I might even bump into FD although she is out 90 mins after me.

Wish me luck, I will undoubtedly give a blow by blow account when I get back.
 
You'll enjoy every minute of it if the weather holds. I loved it on the recent Trump/Carnoustie extravaganza.

Just avoid the bunkers, burns, rough and blind spots and you'll be fine :)
 
Carnoustie is a very fair course. Get a planner and plot your way round avoiding the bunkers and streams. The greens are generally fairly flat so shouldn't pose too many problems.

Excellent course, I always enjoy playing there.

Play well :thup:
 
Just enjoy the experience. Carnoustie has enough gotchas to muck up your card even when playing well. CSS for this comp almost always goes to SSS+3 and remember you get stableford adjustments if you make a horlicks of any holes. I shot 86 last year, off 4, and was in my buffer so keep going no matter how bad the score seems!

I'll look out for you but suspect the timings won't work out.
 
18 x 5's is only 90.

Automatically give yourself an extra 5/7/10 shots over your handicap to play with, take the pressure off, but most of all enjoy it.

Play short of bunkers on drives, if you feel its right, rather than trying to get them extra 20 yards, and you'll be fine.

Good luck, Louise.:thup:

And Kaz.:thup:
 
FD and D4S are right, as is everyone else! Course planner is essential and don't forget your roll out off the tee Louise, you hit it long.

The best course I've played in my 3 years. The key message from me is 'no hero shots' I think. You'll love it.

And god knows how the greens will be rolling after the recent nice weather, they rolled so fast and true when we where there I imagine they'll be just sublime, now.

Would drive back up there to play it in a heartbeat. Good luck!
 
louise_a said:
I am getting rather excited now about playing here on Saturday. Am setting off tomorrow and staying overnight at Broughty Ferry.
Reading about the course is certainly scary, the SSS of the Reds is 77, and the course is over 6000yds, pretty monstrous for someone with my distance.
I will be more than happy if I break 100, although I will most likely come away with a 0.1 increase, it should be fun (I am a bit of a masochist!)
I might even bump into FD although she is out 90 mins after me.

Wish me luck, I will undoubtedly give a blow by blow account when I get back.
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I played it a couple of weeks ago in a club match and it was in superb condition, the dry weather we had up here recently has made it a bit firey, the normal css for men is 78 nearly every week. me and my partner were +4 better ball for our game, we just clicked and played out our skins. Enjoy
 
I played it last year as a present to myself, stayed in the hotel, dinner the lot. What a place. Very friendly too. Birdie on the 6th. Hit the green on 13th with 6 greenkeepers watching from the green (very nerve wracking), i thought I'd got a hole in one!!!!! all of them walked past and said word like "great shot" etc. I felt invincible. Is it possible to smile for 4.5 hours? Yes it is!!!! It was raining too, battered down at 16. The course just sucked it all up. Wonderful!!!

Enjoy, enjoy !!!!
 
Serious question here, why do golf clubs routinely put the ladies tees at very long yardages that end up with either a par or a SSS around 3 above the gents equivalent? Surely they should just put in a second shorter set to not have even quite good players constantly hitting hybrids all day and if they want then have the current set as a "medal" tee as well.

5500 or thereabouts I reckon is too just too long for the average player on your average par 70

Don't know whether this is a tin hat on type of statement or not but I know I wouldn't enjoy carrying the ball 230 and playing a 6800-6900 yard course with no shorter option
 
Don't get that post Hosel Fade I'm afraid. Carnoustie, like many great links courses can be a pusy cat one day and a raging lion the next depending on the weather. A good shot off the tee can run for miles or can slowly drift off and be collected by a fairway bunker. Ladies tees will be rated accordingly and given an appropriate par dependant on length and severity of the hole.

Stand on the tee and look down Hogans Alley and you'll see how close success and failure can be.
 
DCB said:
Don't get that post Hosel Fade I'm afraid. Carnoustie, like many great links courses can be a pusy cat one day and a raging lion the next depending on the weather. A good shot off the tee can run for miles or can slowly drift off and be collected by a fairway bunker. Ladies tees will be rated accordingly and given an appropriate par dependant on length and severity of the hole.

Stand on the tee and look down Hogans Alley and you'll see how close success and failure can be.
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The point I'm making is not how about how fair it is but rather how enjoyable it is. I would not enjoy myself if my easiest option was to play Wentworth West off the whites even if it might have a corresponding high SSS

Also I have played in the Tassie/Maulesbank a few times so know what the course is like, that is beside the question. My point is a) why do ladies play all their golf from the single set (unless they are elite level)

and

b) why are they generally set up so disproportionately long

Surely this has to be discouraging to some level and I am not trying to be patronizing here whatsoever.
 
Hostel fade I'm really not sure where you're coming from but to answer your questions as best I can

A) because historically golf clubs give women a second rate experience, it's always been done this way and there's no great appetite to change things
B) they're not
 
FairwayDodger said:
Hostel fade I'm really not sure where you're coming from but to answer your questions as best I can

A) because historically golf clubs give women a second rate experience, it's always been done this way and there's no great appetite to change things
B) they're not
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A) not sure I agree with this
B) I do agree with this
 
DCB said:
Don't get that post Hosel Fade I'm afraid. Carnoustie, like many great links courses can be a pusy cat one day and a raging lion the next depending on the weather. A good shot off the tee can run for miles or can slowly drift off and be collected by a fairway bunker. Ladies tees will be rated accordingly and given an appropriate par dependant on length and severity of the hole.

Stand on the tee and look down Hogans Alley and you'll see how close success and failure can be.
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5 iron + 5 iron for me. Easy peasy !
 
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