Courses widely vary so shouldn't course profiles? Detailing heavyweight course after heavyweight course with cymbals clashing (!) and kettle drums pounding (!!) runs the risk over time of creating meaningless noise. For sake of variety, we present today a one page, 1,000 word, fifteen photograph morsel about Pitlochry. It's a small town with a vintage lay of the land golf course, a wee 6-holer and a fantastic in-town putting course. Where outside of Scotland can you even find such?! Perhaps that explains my appreciation for Pitlochry and how closely knit golf is with the fabric of Scottish communities. If being outside and having fun with friends in a pristine environment doesn’t put a smile on your face, then … well?
Few places are more relaxing or inspirational for penning a GolfClubAtlas.com course profile than the second floor lounge at Fonab overlooking Faskally Loch in Pitlochry. Golf at its best is a simple affair. Too many places layer (expensive) complication upon complication on the game until only a sliver of the population base sees merit in pursuing the sport. At Pitlochry, there are several different hooks as mentioned above for getting involved - and enjoying - the sport. Fritz and I paid a combined green fee of 30£ (including her rental set) for the privilege of a round here one Saturday afternoon. It's a pity that the golfing world seems incapable of learning from Pitlochry and other Scottish towns about how best to intertwine the game and life.
Oh well! Until other countries do, we will all keep heading to the United Kingdom for reinvigoration and the emotions that are stirred when the game is at its simple best.