From the personal top 10’s thread
Alphabetically, and just for today:
Auchterderran
Carnoustie
Dornoch
Lahinch
Muirfield
Myopia
Painswick
Pebble Beach
Rye
TPC-Sawgrass
The one that belongs on here.
Auchterderran
http://www.fifegolfcourses.co.uk/courses/coursespage.htm
“Tell me more, tell me more”
Tony
From a chapter on scottish golf in a soon to be published book.....
".....or Auchterderran-- an obscure 9-holer more than 100 years old, which sits at the edge of an old mining village in Fife. Some of the holes cross in the old-fashioned way, but most of them have distinct and intriguing character and are fully capable of raising the spirit of the visiting golfer."
...plus a few added words which fell unloved onto the editing room floor.
"In the early morning or in the gloaming, both Loch Lomond and Auchterderran can be beautiful for what they are, but it is not an easy choice as to which course to pick if what a player is looking for is purely golf."
My list focused on the courses which "stir my heart." Auchterderran does so not only due to its history, its humility and its savage beauty, but also due to the fact that Fife Council is seriously considering selling this gem to housing developers because it can't think of a way to make it "profitable," in a purely economic sense. The barbarians are at the gates, even (especially?) in Scotland......
Rich