Michael Weston, explain yourself!

[thecraw]

Reading your top 100 hidden gems when my eyes pop in disbelief at Whitecraigs!? Explain how that managed to sneak into the top 100 gems in Britain?? Seriously!

Whitecraigs is not even the best track in the area. Bonnyton for instance is a better layout, better course and a sterner test of golf. Cathkin Braes, home of Scott Jameson is also a far superior course.

Other noticeable courses which are better in my opinion are Kilmacolm, Largs, Spey Valley, Dunaverty, Powfoot, Prestwick St Nicholas, Irvine Bogside. There are a good few more I could mention as well.

That said, I'm delighted to see Traigh in there. My favourite 9 holer in the land even although the greens have gone downhill rapidly over the last 5 or 6 years.

 

[JJF69]

Reading your top 100 hidden gems when my eyes pop in disbelief at Whitecraigs!? Explain how that managed to sneak into the top 100 gems in Britain?? Seriously!

Whitecraigs is not even the best track in the area. Bonnyton for instance is a better layout, better course and a sterner test of golf. Cathkin Braes, home of Scott Jameson is also a far superior course.

Other noticeable courses which are better in my opinion are Kilmacolm, Largs, Spey Valley, Dunaverty, Powfoot, Prestwick St Nicholas, Irvine Bogside. There are a good few more I could mention as well.

That said, I'm delighted to see Traigh in there. My favourite 9 holer in the land even although the greens have gone downhill rapidly over the last 5 or 6 years.

you need to get out more

 

[DCB]

Traigh... stunning location and some interesting holes. Definitely worth a visit evein if it is only 9 holes.

 

[thecraw]

you need to get out more

Hopefully not with you!

Seriously though, Whitecraigs ahead of Cathkin and Bonnyton??

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Having never experienced any of the courses you talk about (they are bound to be pretty good - most Scottish ones are) I guess the essence of the whole "hidden gem" topic was a course that the individual thought was good. Its the old what is one mans meat.... I'm sure there are loads of courses up and down the UK that you may think is a nice course to visit every now and again and others will think "what the hell"

I guess Lydd was a case in point. Great write up, good reviews online and supposedly with a thriving membership and yet a goat track and a ghost town. I hated it but there must have been others that have loved it

 

[Doc]

Powfoot, great course, my favourite all time before I played St Annes Old Course.

 

[JJF69]

Hopefully not with you!

Seriously though, Whitecraigs ahead of Cathkin and Bonnyton??

its subjective, maybe whitecraigs is less well known than the other two and therefore a hidden gem?

 

[thecraw]

Your taxi is running JJF.

 

[MegaSteve]

Traigh... Is that the course just along the road from where HP aviates a Ford Anglia over a viaduct?

 

[thecraw]

Traigh... Is that the course just along the road from where HP aviates a Ford Anglia over a viaduct?

HP threw me I was going down the sauce route before it clicked.


Yes it is mate, between Back of Keppoch and Mallaig on the road to the isles. Roughly 2 miles from Arisaig. The most stunning setting in Scotland when the sun is setting over the isles, sinking into the sea. Heaven.

 

[MegaSteve]

Thought it rang a bell... Spent a few days in Largs a while back... Landlord/lady were both keen golfers and they advised that if I could find the time Traigh was more than worth the effort... Something about Faldo having raved about it after a visit...

 

[thecraw]

Thought it rang a bell... Spent a few days in Largs a while back... Landlord/lady were both keen golfers and they advised that if I could find the time Traigh was more than worth the effort... Something about Faldo having raved about it after a visit...

Are you sure that wasn't Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae? Faldo played an exhibition match on Millport a few years back for a cancer charity. Millport is 10 minutes on the ferry from Largs.

 

[MegaSteve]

Are you sure that wasn't Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae? Faldo played an exhibition match on Millport a few years back for a cancer charity. Millport is 10 minutes on the ferry from Largs.

Not so sure about the Faldo bit now! Was fairly confident about Traigh being adjacent[ish] to the Mallaig road though... As for me to golf when on holiday means herself leaving me at the course whilst she goes off and pursues her interest in photography... And the plan suggested by Largs landlady was that I be deposited at Traigh whilst herself makes her way to to area adjacent to the railway viaduct since immortalised by HP... Good golf for me and plenty of photo opportunities for her... Unfortunately it never happened that I got to play Traigh but we did get to drive along the Mallaig road with its stunning views...

 

[Fyldewhite]

Nice to see some positives for Traigh. It was in my top 3 when I was on "meet the forum" a few months back. I thought the greens were a bit iffy too for about 3 seconds, then I looked up and realised what golf is really about.......

 

[Liverbirdie]

Hopefully not with you!

Seriously though, Whitecraigs ahead of Cathkin and Bonnyton??

I agree Bonnyton is a great course, with great views and a very tough but fair course. We can play it for free on a reciprocal and I always play it when in Glasgow, or sometimes on the way to Aberdeen.

 

[Dodger]

Where you reading this list men??

 

[thecraw]

Where you reading this list men??

Click on the travel section instead of the forum and it comes up there dodger.