TomD,
re the AstroTurf EyeSore, please, please, please drop a wee note to David Kidd who will maybe pass on your highly regarded comments to his faither!!!
David/Glenn,
Ladybank is 'probably' a Doak 7ish. I hesitate to place it any higher as it is a bit boring in terrain terms, although the routing is pretty, the turf lovely and the heather bloody difficult!
The newly enlarged clubhouse is also a bit of an eyesore along the 17th and 18th fairways.
They have built a truly horrible new green way to the left of the existing #2 green (the par 5) which is all pushed-up and tilted. Needs a monster draw to get there in two for the big hitter or a crapo dink over the end of the trees for us shorter(older) chaps. I hope they plough it over soon!
Other grand inland tracks which I like (but which may or may not be 'Doakable') are Alyth (magical terrain - the same post-glacial gravel fans as Blairgowrie), The Roxburghe (a bit 'american' but quite a hoot to play), Braid Hills (we've spoken of before and which really MUST be visited by any GCAers touring Scotland), PITREAVIE! (if only for evidence of embryonic MacKenzie design philosophies).
There's a huge number of other 'lower-class' tracks which should be seen on maybe the third visit here. Loads of nice ones in the surrounds of Glasgow and Edinburgh (kind of moorland-y, heathland-y) which can be easily reached; some historically interesting old ones along the A9 into the Highlands; many in redeveloped parkland around old stately piles which might be of little interest architecturally, but are fun places to play nonetheless. Sometimes it's cool to relax 'the rules'!!!
FBD.