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Marty Bonnar

Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« on: July 12, 2012, 04:38:29 PM »
So this year's Golf Staycation took us to the wonderful Scottish Borders and Bonnie Peeblesshire. I played Peebles about twenty years ago on one of our now ledgendary (in our own opinion anyway) boys weekends. At the time, I was unaware of it's history and was too busy enjoying the booze, views and cigars to care!

Luckily, I'm way more enlightened now, so was looking forward to revisiting this H.S.Colt peach.

The Course layout reflects a quite hilly location. Colt cleverly takes you round the hill mostly with only occasional uphill/downhill holes to help alleviate the slopes:


She starts off with a nicely bunkered Par 3 played across the slope in front of the Pint Gallery:


I'm going to break these posts up as I can't review properly. What happened to that???

MB.
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Marty Bonnar

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2012, 04:52:48 PM »
#3: A great hole with tempting drive which needs to be held back a wee bit to retain a view of the GREAT double Green:



More of this beauty later...

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Marty Bonnar

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2012, 05:25:57 PM »
The uphill 4th to a cracking green - which I freakin putted OFF!!!!!
 :o


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YES, it's a CART!!!! Our pal Gordy is close to having heart surgery, so we felt we had to sympathise...
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Marty Bonnar

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2012, 05:53:01 PM »
Then you wander (cart) through to a most marvellous vista:


Colt genius-ness of the bestest. Reminded me of Swinley a bit. Straight along the side of the hill, bunkered just where you'd try to squeak a wee saving shot, but not too much sidehill roll to be utterly painful.

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Bill_McBride

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2012, 06:05:08 PM »
I'm not that familiar with Colt, but that last photo just shouts "Colt!" to me.  Thinking of greens benched into hillsides at Rye and Burnham & Berrow.  Beautiful. 
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Tom_Doak

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2012, 11:04:02 PM »
Wow, Martin ... I always had Peebles and Hawick on my list of courses to see someday, thanks to an obscure reference I read thirty years ago when I was living over there.  I didn't expect it to be stripe-mowed ... but I didn't expect it to have so many good-looking holes, either!
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Niall C

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2012, 06:01:51 AM »
FBD,

Great stuff. Can't say I'd hear much about the course but looks fantastic. BTW I notice the rest of the boys stayed at home and you took the lovely Nancy instead, much better idea.

Cheers

Niall
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Brian_Ewen

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2012, 09:24:21 AM »
Marty
Have those bunkers been cleaned up since my visit a few years back ?

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Marty Bonnar

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2012, 03:16:55 PM »
Tom,
the stripe mowing gets ever more popular over here!!!
Niall,
twas a nice couples week with two of our good pals. Peebles then Barcelona!!!
Brian,
I think maybe all the sodding rain we've had has washed all the sand back into the bunkers! Although surprisingly, Peebles was decently dry  - especially compared to Cardrona which was water-logged by the Twees as high as I've ever seen it!

Anyheys,
on to the next few holes:

One of my absolute fave - the downhill 6th:
Tempting wide fairway with "da-da-da" OPTIONS!


Drive to the corner gives this lovely view:

Choice of whether to go for the green or lay-up due to the nice little stream

Close up of the green site - sorry about the pic (Nancy's wee camera). Just a brilliant, BRILLIANT green.


You'll guess I REALLY LOVED this hole.

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Colin Macqueen

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2012, 04:10:08 AM »
Marty,
The Pentlands, in the background, are looking quite benign methinks.

This wee stream you talk of seems to have a very low profile and I guess that is it meandering between the stakes masquerading as Peebles' Swilcan Burn?

The course looks delightful. Perched greens! How much does a poor Aussiie (naturalised 72 hours ago!!) have tae shell out to grace it's fairways? I have never played it but one should as one drifts North out of the clutches of the Sassenachs.

Cheers Col
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Marty Bonnar

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2012, 07:22:13 AM »
Pentlands and Moorfoots methinks...
Congrats on becoming 'official'!!
Peebles is ouotrageously expensive:
http://www.peeblesgolfclub.com/visitors.html
 ;D

Hole #7 is the first (SECOND - DOH!) of the par 3s. Played back to that double green.



Really good shaping. Swales and mounds merging simply perfectly. I like to think that the mound in front of this bunker was done deliberately to reflect the shape of yonder hill.

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Will Lozier

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2012, 11:09:19 AM »
Martin,

Thanks for this little tour!  Great looking place.  #7 is the second par-3 right?  Great hole names!

Cheers
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Marty Bonnar

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2012, 11:40:38 AM »
Well spotted, Will!!! Of course it's the second. What a stupid I am.... ;D
Think this one might actually have been'Colt's Choice'?

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Bill_McBride

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2012, 01:09:44 PM »
Interesting both flags on the double green are yellow?   What's up with that?

I have an unhappy memory of firing a wedge within five feet of the red flag on #3 on the New course at St Andrews, only to be told that we were playing to the yellow flag which was 100' way over there to the left!   What a stupido I am!
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Marty Bonnar

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2012, 05:21:16 PM »
Scottish froogality at work, dearest Unc!!!  ;D

Next hole was the splendid downhill #8. Again, a tempting drive which caught me out both days as I over-estimated my golfing abilities and landed in the hazard each time... :'(



Approach to a nice world's end green:



View of #2 green from here shows the lovely subtle contouring employed at so many of PGC's greens:



Great memories.
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Brian_Ewen

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2012, 06:02:31 PM »
Quote from: Bill_McBride on July 14, 2012, 01:09:44 PM
I have an unhappy memory of firing a wedge within five feet of the red flag on #3 on the New course at St Andrews, only to be told that we were playing to the yellow flag which was 100' way over there to the left!   What a stupido I am!

Funny, I thought I was only person to do that   ::)
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Marty Bonnar

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2012, 04:37:17 PM »
A few more Holes:
Tee view at the 11th:


and the 11th Green:


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Marty Bonnar

Re: Perfectly Pukka Peebles
« Reply #17 on: July 15, 2012, 04:38:49 PM »
The 12th. Nice little par 3. I parred it both days!!! (which was nice for me)



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