Golf Course Near Train Stations

[Smurph]

I hope someone can help me with this one.

Is there a list anywhere of golf courses in Scotland that you can access from train stations nearby or a short taxi journey leaving from the station?

 

[thecraw]

Kilmarnock Barassie, station less than 50 yards away from the clubhouse.

Very good track as well.


http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/showthread.php?31767-Kilmarnock-Barassie&highlight=barassie


[URL]http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/showthread.php?31646-Kilmarnock-Barassie&highlight=barassie[/URL]

 

[Hendo007]

Kilmarnock Barassie, station less than 50 yards away from the clubhouse.

Very good track as well.


http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/showthread.php?31767-Kilmarnock-Barassie&highlight=barassie


[URL]http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/showthread.php?31646-Kilmarnock-Barassie&highlight=barassie[/URL]

Except in the conditions we were forced to play in at the Volvo matchplay finals last year !!!

 

[Iaing]

Prestwick.
Troon municipals. Royal Troon is walkable from Troon Station.
In truth there are probably hundreds, if not within walking distance, then a short taxi ride away.

 

[Liverbirdie]

Carnoustie is about a par 4 away - cue the arguments.

 

[Fish]

Very good track as well.

The course or the train?

 

[Grumps]

There are loads just what part of Scotland are you thinking about

 

[Yer Maw]

I think Ladybank is as close as it gets!

 

[Mary]

North Berwick - West Course, just a couple of minutes down the hill from the train station.

 

[Smurph]

Thanks all for the comments. I'm just looking to get out and about across Scotland to play on as many different courses as possible and leave the car at home. I'm in Lanarkshire with a train station on my doorstep.
Keep the suggestions coming please.

 

[dog377]

The course or the train?

Brilliant,laughed out loud

 

[patricks148]

Tain is right next to the train Station. Can't think of any others up here that are though.

 

[CliveW]

A lot of courses/hotels were build beside railways in the Victorian era, although in most instances the railways have now gone but the courses are still here, such as Gleneagles and Cruden Bay which were originally owned by the railways.
Also on the list would be Carnoustie which is about 100 yards from the station.

 

[Smurph]

Thanks all! Think Carnoustie Burnside Links will be first on my list for mid August.

 

[CliveW]

Thanks all! Think Carnoustie Burnside Links will be first on my list for mid August.

Hopefully the rough will have been tamed by then. I played it last week and the rough was a nightmare. The worst I've seen it in over fifteen years of playing it.

 

[Smurph]

Hopefully the rough will have been tamed by then. I played it last week and the rough was a nightmare. The worst I've seen it in over fifteen years of playing it.

Would you recommend Burnside over Buddon Links?

 

[CliveW]

Would you recommend Burnside over Buddon Links?

Buddon Links is a course I've never played, so can't comment. Burnside would be very hard to beat.

 

[jeardley]

St Andrews is only a 5 minutes in a taxi from Leauchars train station.

 

[CliveW]

St Andrews is only a 5 minutes in a taxi from Leauchars train station.

The railway used to go all the way into St Andrews and ran along the side of the Old Course. The Old Course Hotel situated to the right of the seventeenth hole is where the engine sheds were and is still referred to this today.

 

[jeardley]

Yep, ive put my ball onto the old track a few times on 16.
There is a great black and white picture in the Dunvegan hotel in town of someone playing off the railway track