Links Diary on Gullane Hill

[David_Tepper]

https://www.thelinksdiary.com/post/gullanehill?utm_campaign=88a833bf-fd60-4c5b-98ca-0216dbe6e6ed&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=9a85640b-20fc-4afc-aa3f-c72ad5aa046b

[John Emerson]

I really like this magazine.  I hope they are able to keep it going.

[Tommy Williamsen]

To my regret I skipped Gullane when I played Muirfield. I knew nothing about the courses back in 1990. I had lunch in town but didn't even look at the any of the courses.

[John Mayhugh]

Thanks for posting, David. I subscribed after I saw their first edition, and can't imagine anyone on here not being interested. Really good combination of photos and text.

[Tom_Doak]

Gullane's courses do not display as much variety as the best of the best, but it has always been a place with a very strong identity of its own, which is a great thing to have.  A friend of mine used to compare the front nine at High Pointe to Gullane, and I was tickled that he thought so.


There really aren't many other "links on a hill".  The original course at St. Patrick's had a fair bit of that, but the hill isn't really in the right direction for the best view or for playing in the wind, as Gullane is.  And Gullane uses three sides of the hill pretty well, where St. Patrick's was too abrupt on one side, and too close to the beach on another.

[Ken Moum]

To my regret I skipped Gullane when I played Muirfield. I knew nothing about the courses back in 1990. I had lunch in town but didn't even look at the any of the courses.

As I said from the hill a few years ago, "This is the only place I know of where you can look down on the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers."

[mike_beene]

The view from the the 7th tee of the firth and of Murfield and the bridge and Edinburg castle on a sunny day is perhaps the most spectacular in golf.

[David_Tepper]

Nice article on the new short game practice area at Gullane:

https://www.golfcoursearchitecture.net/content/new-short-game-facility-opens-at-gullane-golf-club