"Plans put forward for new mult-million pound golf resort"

[David_Tepper]

There has been a thread about Feddinich here before, but I could not find it. This is from the Herald today.


https://www.heraldscotland.com/business_hq/19303826.plans-put-forward-new-multi-million-pound-golf-resort/

[Tommy Williamsen]

It is hard to believe that many would forego the outstanding links courses in the area to play on farmland. Building a house there might be different but probably not make enough difference to support such an expensive project.

[James Reader]

Work on the course has restarted in earnest.  I have to say that, to my (uneducated) eye, it doesn’t seem to be a very promising site at all to try to build something that will persuade people to pay the kind of fees that are being talked about.  As well as being fairly featureless farmland, it’s also on a fairly steep slope.  It will have some good views across St Andrews, but it will need an awful lot more than that!

[Joel_Stewart]

It is hard to believe that many would forego the outstanding links courses in the area to play on farmland. Building a house there might be different but probably not make enough difference to support such an expensive project.

Especially a Tom Weiskopf design which is completely predictable American style course.

[Adam Lawrence]

Most of the real problems with Feddinch related to the previous developer, who had antagonised virtually everyone of importance and who seemed to think a private club in St Andrews with a huge initiation and no preferential access to the Old Course was a good idea.


The people who are now in charge appear to be much more sensible. Whether that translates to a viable project, we will have to wait and see. But it is a better proposition now that before.

[Niall C]

It is hard to believe that many would forego the outstanding links courses in the area to play on farmland. Building a house there might be different but probably not make enough difference to support such an expensive project.

Especially a Tom Weiskopf design which is completely predictable American style course.

Perhaps Jay Morrish (not sure if that is the correct spelling) deserves most of the credit for Loch Lomond, I don't know, but that's a course that is highly thought of even if it isn't particularly Scottish, whatever that might be.


Niall

[Joel_Stewart]

It is hard to believe that many would forego the outstanding links courses in the area to play on farmland. Building a house there might be different but probably not make enough difference to support such an expensive project.

Especially a Tom Weiskopf design which is completely predictable American style course.

Perhaps Jay Morrish (not sure if that is the correct spelling) deserves most of the credit for Loch Lomond, I don't know, but that's a course that is highly thought of even if it isn't particularly Scottish, whatever that might be.


Niall

Loch Lomond was built in 1994 in a beautiful setting. What has Weiskopf done since then except mediocrity?

[Tommy Williamsen]

Tom Weiskopf has more important things on his mind than golf design now.


https://www.pancan.org/news/pga-tour-great-approaches-diagnosis-and-treatment-with-a-champions-attitude/

[Niall C]

Joel


I've no idea what he's done since but with regards Loch Lomond, the setting might be beautiful but that doesn't make a golf course. The site itself was pretty well a bog. What was created out of it was a terrific golf course.


Niall

[Ronald Montesano]

A bog where Weiskopf almost breathed his last ...