virtuocity
Tour Winner
Treated myself to an early morning round here. Considering I'm only 25 mins away, it's mad that I haven't played it before.
Booked under the James Braid scheme for £25.
Arrived in the car park, and left my car, only for a man dressed in a club suit and tie to approach me with intent from the pro shop. I was thinking, "have I parked in the Captain's space?". He calls me by name, we shake hands and he states, "welcome to The Irvine Golf club". What a welcome.
The gentleman was a past captain who took time to show me round the facilities and thank me for coming, ensuring that everything was OK before I set out.
This inland links course was in really nice condition from fairway to green, but a little rough on the tee boxes. Plenty of run on the fairways saw me hit some decent drives, but it definitely wasn't a driver, wedge, putt, putt type links course. The fairways were narrow, especially on the front 9, so it wasn't a case of pulling driver at every opportunity. Rough was low, but gorse ever-present. A real thinkers' course. For example:
A very short par 4, playing around 250 yards off the yellow tees, which is representative of some very characterful holes. 5 iron short of a monster bunker, flick with a gap wedge to a raised, but blind green and sunk the putt for birdie (my 2nd of 3 today). A perfect course for those who are accurate off the tee.
This course has won awards for being one of the best for under £100 a round. I can definitely see why.
Haste me back.
Booked under the James Braid scheme for £25.
Arrived in the car park, and left my car, only for a man dressed in a club suit and tie to approach me with intent from the pro shop. I was thinking, "have I parked in the Captain's space?". He calls me by name, we shake hands and he states, "welcome to The Irvine Golf club". What a welcome.
The gentleman was a past captain who took time to show me round the facilities and thank me for coming, ensuring that everything was OK before I set out.
This inland links course was in really nice condition from fairway to green, but a little rough on the tee boxes. Plenty of run on the fairways saw me hit some decent drives, but it definitely wasn't a driver, wedge, putt, putt type links course. The fairways were narrow, especially on the front 9, so it wasn't a case of pulling driver at every opportunity. Rough was low, but gorse ever-present. A real thinkers' course. For example:
A very short par 4, playing around 250 yards off the yellow tees, which is representative of some very characterful holes. 5 iron short of a monster bunker, flick with a gap wedge to a raised, but blind green and sunk the putt for birdie (my 2nd of 3 today). A perfect course for those who are accurate off the tee.
This course has won awards for being one of the best for under £100 a round. I can definitely see why.
Haste me back.
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