Carnoustie a must? $350 green fee. Panmure a good sub or "required" add-on? $175 green fee.
Kingsbarns a must? $450 a little eye-watering.
Thanks and wishing you happy golf adventures in the new year.
Jesus, I've gotta lobby for higher green fees at St. Patrick's. Panmure is $175 now? And it's $350 to be humbled at Carnoustie?
I’ve seen posts mentioning how some use the cost of the green fee vs the expected experience when deciding which courses to play.
This factored into my 40 day UK golf trip earlier this year.
I had exactly the same thoughts as Tom expressed when I considered Carnoustie and Panmure. I scratched them off the list for that reason. In fact of the 28 courses in the UK and Donegal Ireland I decided to play, Carnoustie and Panmure are the ONLY courses I decided not to play due to relative value.
To answer the original poster’s question, I think you scratch Kingsbarn off the list. I played it in 2007 and I’m glad I did but sorry $450 can be better spent elsewhere.
I think you play TOC, St. Andrews (new), Elie, Lundin, and both Crail courses. Having played all those courses except Lundin, I feel you would return home thinking quite good about yourself and your trip.
If you have a hole in your schedule AND you’re having a real good year in the stock market, then add Kingsbarn to the loop
I may be wrong here, but I glanced at TOC’s website a few weeks ago and I thought it was something like £280 to play TOC, which is not absurd. Someone tell me if I have the incorrect green fee.