Golf Club Atlas
GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture Discussion Group => Topic started by: Malcolm Mckinnon on September 24, 2014, 11:15:49 PM
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This is my kind of club!
Understated yet refined. A wonderful golf course attached.
Many thanks to Mark Pearce from Northumbria for being so kind to invite me up!
I am very unsatisfied with the photos here as I do not think that they do justice to the overall excellence of the grounds.
Of courses I know this one is unique in that it has so many holes with blind shots combined with greens that run away. Definitely you will score better the second time.
Here it is.......
Well Hello, Elie!
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Clubhouse and starter's house with a periscope peering over the hill at 1st tee.
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Here we have the starter at Elie and his periscope!
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1st hole/ Stacks/ Par 4/ 420 yds
The first tee is a blind shot over an abrupt rise. That is why the starter needs a periscope to signal when the next group can tee off.
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Top of the hill on 1st hole.
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Approach to 1st green.
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1st green looking back.
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2nd tee/ High Hole/ Par 4/ 284 yds
Up and up!
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Getting closer...
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2nd Green
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3rd hole/ Wickets/ Par 3/ 214 yds
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3rd green, looking back to tee.
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4th tee, Provost/ par 4/ 378 yds
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This Pub offers a pint just off of the 4th fairway!
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4th approach
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4th green
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4th green again
There is a spine that runs directly through the fairway and green that my photos do not do justice to...
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5th tee/ Doctor. par 4/ 365 yds
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Huge undulations with bunkers...
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Undulations and bunkers again...
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5th green looking back
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6th tee/ Quarries/ par 4/ 316 yds
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6th approach
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Closer in on 6th.
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6th green
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6th green/ side view showing front to back slant!
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Malcolm,
It was a pleasure meeting you. Actually I think the photos do a pretty good job of showing the shape of the ground. I think photos often flatten things out and that has, inevitably, happened to some extnt here but I do think the shape of the holes comes through. I look forward to the rest of the tour.
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Very nice Malcolm. Looking forward to viewing the rest of the tour.
Having a 'Starter' is a costly measure for a private club so I'm curious to know if this is a 'private' club in the sense that the club owns or has sole use of the land or, as with other links in Scotland, is the land owned by the local authority and several 'clubs' in the town have the right to play over the course?
atb
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Malcolm, Thank you. The photos bring back happy memories of the last time I played at Elie. Great fun.
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Brian,
I'd be more than happy to host you, let's get a date in the diary.
Thomas,
I don't know who owns the land but only The Golf House Club (the main Elie club), Elie and Earlsferry Ladies (the associated Ladies club) and Earlsferry Thistle GC (the local Artisans) play on the course. In summer Elie is very busy and the starter necessary.
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I played Eie in July and had a great tiem, such a fun course.
That back nine is a real test and the stretch from 11 to 17 will test golfers of ANY ability.
Superb lay out with great green complexes, simplicity at its finest.
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I played Eie in July and had a great tiem, such a fun course.
That back nine is a real test and the stretch from 11 to 17 will test golfers of ANY ability.
Superb lay out with great green complexes, simplicity at its finest.
There are a lot of half par holes at Elie and a lot of birdie chances. However, at 6300 yards for a par 70 it's no pushover and for all the birdie chances there are holes like 1, 3, 4, 9, 12 and 12-14 and 16 and 17 which take good golf to make par. In any sort of breeze it's very rare for even very good players to go very low and a score of 67 or 68 reguires very good golf indeed.
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Ok, so lets proceed onward...
7th tee/ Peggy's/ Par 4/ 252 yds
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7th approach with a few bunkers
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7th green looking back. A bit of breeze here!
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8th tee/ Neuk/ par 4/ 382 yds
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Approach to 8th green
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8th green
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9th tee/ Martin's Bay/ par 5/ 440 yds
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9th nearer the green
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9th green looking back
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10th tee/ lunar Law/ par 4/ 288 yards
A blind over the hill hole to the sea.
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10th Green
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10th Greeen with North Berwick Law in the background across the fourth.
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10th again
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Side view of 10th and Mark
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11th tee/ Sea Hole/ Par 3/ 131 yds
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11th green
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12th hole/ Bents/ Par 4/ 466 yds
Fairway view
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13th tee/ Coupie/ Par 4/ 380 yds
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13th fairway
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13th approach with bunkers
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View of 13th green from right
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13th looking back
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13th looking back and seaward!
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More later!
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Elie is a must play every trip over. If I were to join a club in the UK, this could well be it. If they would have me, of course.
No small feat, that.
Cheers.
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Very nice Malcolm. May I suggest using [img width=800].........for the photos.
Thanks Mark for the detail that it's four 'clubs' that can play over the links.
atb
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Thanks Malcom. Good memories there. Disher was a great partner in foursomes and some women's college golf team was playing the course as we went round. .km
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Thomas,
Three clubs. I don't know where the fourth comes from!
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Let's go home!
Thomas, Flickr was having problems last night and I had to redo 7-13 three times to get it right. It was infuriating! I kind of like the larger format but will downsize to 800x600 between here and the clubhouse. Let me know what you think.
14th tee/ Suckielea/ par 4/ 414 yds
Mark takes command of the tee!
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Another view from 14th tee
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14th approach
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14th green
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14th green looking back!!
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15th tee/ Coalhill/ par 4/ 338 yds
Another blind drive!
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View from the stake on 15.
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Approaching 15th green
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15th from short and right
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15th from back right with 12 and 13 in the background!
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16th approach/ Grange/ par 4/ 407 yes
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16th looking back
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17th tee/ Ferry/ Par 4/ 439 yards
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Bunker on 17
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17, getting closer
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17 looking rearward
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18th tee/ Home/ par 4/ 359 yds
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18th approach
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Bunker and 18th green
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Let me know if you find the larger format photos in the middle of the course annoying and I can scale them down.
Hope you enjoyed the tour!
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Thomas,
Three clubs. I don't know where the fourth comes from!
Mark - I read "Elie and Earlsferry Ladies" as being two. I guess not however!
Malcolm - the larger format is rather awkward to view.
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Thanks Malcom. Good memories there. Disher was a great partner in foursomes and some women's college golf team was playing the course as we went round. .km
The lovely ladies were Cal Bears. A couple of our younger lads bought pints to share with them.