St Andrews Castle Course

[G Jones]

Apologies if this has been discussed in another thread, but I searched and couldn't find it.

What do you all know about the new links trust course at St Andrews (the castle course)? What are your expectations/thoughts/concerns? From the pictures it looks like it's going to be pretty good... I just hope they don't make it too wiggy fairway edged american style... whatever happened to the classic look of courses like muirfield where the fairway edges don't wiggle without a geographic or strategic reason to?! This is one of my dislikes about Kingsbarns, good course though it is. It just seems to be the fashion in course design in this modern age. And to me seems like a substitute for ability to make a course interesting through proper design. But then what do I know...!

http://www.standrews.org.uk/golf/the_courses/castlecourse_winter06.html

[Ken Moum]

I got a chance to walk some of the back nine in July  and I don't think you have to worry too much. The folks at St. Andrews "get it" I think.

After DMK and Co. got done moving dirt it looked very much like linksland--despite the differences in soil.

The 17th is going to attract lots of attention from people who like heroic par threes.

K

[Eamon Lynch]

I walked the course with DMK a few months back and was very impressed. The 17th is indeed a heroic hole. I told DMK that it reminded me of the 14th ("Calamity Corner") at Royal Portrush, which amused him since his guys have dubbed the recessed chipping area back left of the green as 'Bobby Locke's Hollow' (Locke got up & down from the hollow in front of the 14th at RP all four rounds of the 1951 Open).