Lively Little Levens from Lundin to Long Island

[Marty Bonnar]

A two-tiered green on a little plateau which falls away on all sides. It’s an absolute beauteau.
Scotscraig is a must-play for the St Andrews-bound GCAer.


Cheers,
F.

[Eric_Terhorst]

Eric:


I think it was the 4th at Scotscraig that is the model for Macdonald's "Knoll" green on the 13th at Piping Rock [and others].  I only know that because I took a guest to Piping Rock 30 years ago who had grown up at Scotscraig, and as soon as he saw the hole he said, "I know where he got this idea."  I hadn't gone to Scotscraig when I lived in St. Andrews so it took me a few years to get back and confirm it, but it was clearly the hole ... the two-tiered green was the clincher.

Good to know, and happy to have CB MacDonald courses on the bucket list to finish out my education   

[Rich Goodale]

Scotscraig's Knoll is a very clever and fiendishly difficult hole, requiring a precise layup to the beginning of the gunge and then a well struck lofted iron over the gunge to hold the volcano green.  The hole deserves to be a Template, but the course is just one of many good but not great gems that are largely avoided by most visitors to Scotland.  Glad you liked it, Eric!