Surely someone around here has a spare £700k...

[Marty Bonnar]

The Strathmore Golf Centre has come onto the market this week...



Offers over £700k for 27 holes, practice facility, etc, etc...

Let's build it and they shall come!

FBD.

More details:
Strathmore Golf Centre, Alyth, Perthshire

An impressive golf centre comprising 18 hole course, 9 hole course, floodlit driving range, practice area and well appointed clubhouse in a stunning Perthshire location

Perth: 19 miles, Dundee: 16 miles, Blairgowrie: 5 miles

The Rannaleroch Course – a challenging championship standard 18 hole course of 6454 yards and Par 72

The Leitfie Links – a 9 hole 1666 yard Par 29 course.

Practice area – the practice area features target greens, practice bunkers and putting area

Driving range – 10 bay floodlit driving range

Clubhouse – superb clubhouse with bar, lounge, patio area, male and female changing rooms

Outbuildings – substantial modern greenkeepers’ stores

Available in addition are a 4 bedroom detached villa backing on to the golf course, a steading with development potential, a field of approximately 11.20 acres and a further development field of approximately 16.96 acres (subject to relevant consents)

Set in approximately 195.62 acres (79.15 Ha) in all

[George Pazin]

I know my checkbook is lying around here somewhere....

I'm a little unclear on your proposal, FBD. Are you suggesting the buyer raze the existing course and start fresh? How old is the course and who is the architect of record?

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Martin,

Why is it up for sale?  The wrong course in the wrong place?  Poor marketing?  Overkill in a particular part of Scotland?  That seems incredibly modest a sum for such an extensive facility - what would it fetch as farmland?  

[David_Tepper]

Martin -

Do you know who the listing agent is? Savills? Knight & Frank? Strutt & Parker? Bell-Ingram?

DT

[Marty Bonnar]

George,
I am merely(!) suggesting that we collectively purchase this Course and create GCA nirvana. Simple! Been open about maybe ten years - I have no knowledge of the Archie. I have played it once as I recall. Largely uninspiring, but set in some of that lovely Angus countryside.

Mark,
Absolutely all of the above! It was definitely farmland before this incarnation. Set in the middle of nowhere really, and damn close to the lovely old Alyth and the newish Glenisla, it was probably a bad idea to build it in the first place.

David,
joint letting agents:
DMHall/Baird Lumsden

http://www.fastcropit.com/dmhgr/html/templates/details.cfm?id=dmhb999000192

and Savills

http://www.savills.co.uk/commercial

Thinking of buying?

FBD.

[TEPaul]

Forget my checkbook, I'm pretty sure I have at least that much in cash around here somewhere. But first tell me what they have into that place and I'll give them no more than half that for it right now. Ask them if they want to continue bleeding or if they want the White Knight to take care of them right now. Every day I have to wait for their answer will cost them 10 grand.

TE (Donald Trump) Paul

[Tiger_Bernhardt]

Martin, it is in a terrible location if memory serves me correctly. That is from a man who has already flown over the ocean to get there. I am giving you credit for the quality of the facilities and courses. They did not look very good to me when we stoped and checked it out a few years back. I did not go in the clubhouse there have no comment on it.

[Kirk Gill]

Architect John Salvesen, designer of Traigh.

[David_Tepper]

Martin -

Thanks for the listing info. Maybe I will swing by to have a look when I am over in September.

Any idea what the soil under the course is like? Sandy loam that drains well or pasture land that turns into a muddy bog when it rains?

DT

[Marty Bonnar]

TEP,
I assumed the Paul fortune was sitting under the mattress doing nothing anyway!

Tigger,
the comments above were all taken directly from the Selling Agents website. I accept no responsibility for their veracity! (if US Agents are anything like Scottish ones...)

DT,
the Alyth area has the great fortune to be situated on the Highland/Lowland divide line which means it's abolutely littered with post-glacial till. I would therefore have thought the Course could be 'linksified' with a minimum of fuss (and expenditure!)*

FBD

* The author asserts no legal or moral authority in any of the above matters.

FBD.