Dundonald Flyover

[David_Tepper]

Anyone played there recently?

http://www.geoffshackelford.com/homepage/2017/7/10/scottish-open-dundonald-links-flyover-1-to-18.html

[mike_malone]

 I love the water hazards and the subtle dunes.

[MClutterbuck]

Looks great! Thinking of adding it to my next Scotland trip and completing the "reborn" Scottish Open rota (that I would state starts in 2011).


Castle Stuart
Royal Aberdeen
Gullane
Dundonald
with a very surgical reference to the past - Carnoustie and Old Course.


 

[Thomas Dai]

Here is Sean's photo tour from two years ago - http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,61314.msg1456218.html#msg1456218
Atb

[Niall C]

I love the water hazards and the subtle dunes.

Mike

I saw Dundonald, or Southern Gailes as the new course was originally known, before during and after it was built. Prior to construction the land was relatively flat. The dunes as you refer to are more or less just sandy spoil heaps piled up along the edges of each fairway in order to give separation to the holes. They looked fairly horribly artificial when the course first opened but with time and encroaching vegetation they look much better. However the last time I was there I couldn't help feeling I was playing down corridors. Personally I think the material could have been much better used but then if Philips had the kind of client he had at Kingsbarns that might have happened.

Niall

[mike_malone]

Niall


That's the difference between a drone video and on the ground research. It still looks classic to me.