Castle Course-Taking times

[Daryl David]

I saw on another thread that the Castle Course is now taking times for 2008  so I checked it out.  Plenty of times available thru the summer using the online booking tool.  Green fees are $250.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised with the rates Kingsbarns and the St. Andrews Bay courses are charging, but I was hoping that the Links Trust would cut us a break.

[Chris Kane]

I'm convinced the main reason that course was built is to get a slice of the market Kingsbarns is getting.  There are thousands of golfers visiting St Andrews every year prepared to spend anything, and the Links Trust wants a second course where they can charge top rates.

So I'm not surprised at all that the Links Trust isn't cutting anyone a break.

[Marty Bonnar]

I deleted my initial vitriol, but I MUST say how sickened I am by the Links Trust's rather pathetic grasping at base commercialism here. I'm all for making money - hell, I'm scottish, but:

First of all, the US market is fading rapidly. The exchange rate will kill Scottish golf to all but the VERY wellest-heeled US golfer. For the so-called guardians of the noble game to so FRIKKIN OBVIOUSLY try to cash in on their location makes me ill. TOC, like Pebble will always be a major cash-cow, but the other courses will always be fifth business.

7 is a new, untried, untested, UN-RATED field. You'd imagine the first year at least they'd think: "Let's pitch it at a reasonable cost for one and all and see how the folks like it". Oh, nooooo, the eedjits price it second only to TOC and will, I GUARANTEE, find it's been 'Really successful. We're very happy with the first year results"

Aye, Right...

Idiotic beyond belief.

F.

[Brian_Ewen]

At least they look after the Locals .

[Chris Kane]

At least they look after the Locals .

...because they don't have a choice!

[Marty Bonnar]

At least they look after the Locals .

B,
if I could only have convinced Nancy that St A isn't the herring-lashed, sub-Antarctic, gonad-removing icebox of her imaginings, we'd have moved there years ago...

F.

[Joe Hancock]

At least they look after the Locals .

B,
if I could only have convinced Nancy that St A isn't the herring-lashed, sub-Antarctic, gonad-removing icebox of her imaginings, we'd have moved there years ago...

F.

Now, why would that be a problem for her??

 

Joe

[James Bennett]

At least they look after the Locals .

B,
if I could only have convinced Nancy that St A isn't the herring-lashed, sub-Antarctic, gonad-removing icebox of her imaginings, we'd have moved there years ago...

F.

Martin,

the mornings I visited Kingsbarns and The Castle in March were the coldest days of my trip.  The sleet that occurred on the Castle was bitterly cold - the coldest I can recall on a golf course.  Play at St Andrews was a breeze in comparison, with the protection that the Old Course and her neighbours receive from theose North Sea winds (well, compared to the exposed areas of The Castle and Kingsbarns).

Martin, if you think the Links Trust have got their fees wrong at #7, a line from the Australian classic movie 'The Castle' is probably appropriate.  "100 pounds! Tell em they are dreaming".

James B

[Ally Mcintosh]

Martin, couldn't agree more...

The essence of Scottish golf is well on its way to following Ireland down the toilet.

[Brian_Ewen]

Ally , its further on , than you probably imagine .

[Greg Krueger]

Hello to everyone!! This is my first post! I was in St. Andrews this July and stayed about a mile from The Castle
Course. Looks like it should be a good one, we actually got
out of the car, got through a little hole in the fence, started
walking down one of the holes when we were discovered and
immediately told to leave! The guy was real nice though and
actually joked around with us!!!

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