What is the abandoned golf course next to muirfield and Renaissance golf clubs?

[Tommy Williamsen]

I couldn't find anything online or GCA.

[Thomas Dai]

A couple of potential suspects here - https://www.golfsmissinglinks.co.uk/index.php/scotland-63/scotland-central-east/lothians
Excellent website.
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[Ronald Montesano]

That, Sam Snead, is The Old Course...

[Jon Wiggett]

Only one in that area that I am aware of is the one by Yellowcraig between NB and Archerfield.

[Ally Mcintosh]

Not sure I know where you mean, Tommy?


I assume you don’t mean the original first three holes of The Renaissance Club?

[Ronald Montesano]

Between the clubs and the water? North of Muirfield and west of Renaissance?

[Kalen Braley]

I was thinking the same Ron.


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kingsbarns,+St+Andrews+KY16+8TB,+UK/@56.0551648,-2.8285465,1762m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4886f96d8f29de01:0x941c6f7ea84c0a81!8m2!3d56.299032!4d-2.660714


Could have been something out there.....

[Ally Mcintosh]

Not sure why you think that area might have been an abandoned golf course.


It’s linksland. But never a golf course.

[Tommy Williamsen]

Between the Renaissance Club and the firth. You can see old fairways from the overhead shots on the tv coverage. I tried on google earth but couldn't see anything.

[Ronald Montesano]

I think those are natural corridors between the dunes, made by the wind over time.

[Tommy Williamsen]

I think you're right. My wife says I see golf courses everywhere.

[Dan Gallaway]

Does anyone know what the course just SW of Gleneagles is?

[Scott Warren]

Does anyone know what the course just SW of Gleneagles is?

G.West?

[Pete_Pittock]

Does anyone know what the course just SW of Gleneagles is?

G.West?

Dunblane New and Bridge of Allen are a few miles SW.  Auchterarder(sic?) adjoins Gleneagles to the NE

[Garland Bayley]

Is that the land Muirfield was considering building a 2nd or women's course on?

[Thomas Dai]

Is that the land Muirfield was considering building a 2nd or women's course on?

This is what I've heard too.
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Re-coloured old aerial of Muirfield showing some of the land in question

[Ronald Montesano]

Hey, no thread-jumping here!!


This is a thread about Tommy's hallucinations ONLY.


If you shysters want to start your own, imaginary-course thread, then do so on your own dime.


Or, you can just imagine it.


Tommy, I'm with you when it comes to seeing golf courses. I imagine plowing under those cemeteries, parks, gardens, and other wastes of land...all in the name of golf. Keep the dream alive for all of us, friend!!

[Colin Macqueen]

Great thread!!


RoMo ...I was delighted with yer Sam Snead reference and that you aspire to keeping other peoples hopes, fantasies and delusions alive!  But to be fair the Scottish T.V. commentators the other day showed a barely discernible piece of furrowed land, from on high, that took their fancy as a long-forgotten golf course. They discussed the idea that perhaps it was a private course which may well have belonged to the forefathers of the landed gentry chap that sold the land so Tom Doak could get to work. So this idea has caught more than just Tommy's imagination (hallucination) and needs further investigation and research. That Fat Baldy Drummer lad lives quite close by I believe and should be co-opted to do this work and, from memory, he has form in this regard.


Orra best, Colin

[Mark Smolens]

I think you're right. My wife says I see golf courses everywhere.

If that's the case, be careful driving in NW Nebraska. Tons of dunescapes that look like golf courses. . .

[Ronald Montesano]

I like all the suggestions.


rm

[Sean_A]

Lets put it this way, if there was an abandoned course adjacent to Muirfield, I am very sure it would have been rediscovered long before now!  Its a great dream boys, so keep dreamin'.

Ciao

[Ira Fishman]

It is the future site of Coul Links.


Ira

[Tommy Williamsen]

I think you're right. My wife says I see golf courses everywhere.

If that's the case, be careful driving in NW Nebraska. Tons of dunescapes that look like golf courses. . .

Mark, funny you should mention that. I drove from Denver to Maryland in June. I saw golf courses in dunes from Holyoke to North Platte. Some were extraordinary. They, like David from the marble, are just waiting to be uncovered.

[Kalen Braley]

In defense of Tommy and myself.


If you look at the site from various angles/elevations in Google earth (not Google maps), you can see several features that look like old green sites, bunkers, and playing corridors.  So it was at least plausible, even if a bit wishful and naive! 

[Tony_Muldoon]

Is that the land Muirfield was considering building a 2nd or women's course on?

I asked a long time member about that recently and he said Hawtree looked it over many years ago and it was as dead as the dodo. But that's the thing about rumours, you can never quite kill them off....