With news that Dollar Golf Club was wound-up on the 31st December, 2019 I thought it worthwhile to post a few photos of remembrance...
An interest in sub-6000 yard courses and a Press and Journal Newspaper voucher for a £10 game had encouraged me to visit in April 2016.
The small town of Dollar is one of a handful that string along the south facing base of the Ochil Hills.
Above the clubhouse, a par three starts out towards Castle Campbell. Ninety-degrees and 93 yards left, the second green sits forty or so feet above (!?). (I have no idea how the ladies managed from their tee, benched into the face of the rise, a third of the way-up.)
From there, the golf tracks back and forth, and inevitably up or down, across Dollar Glen. Bunker-less, rudimentary-shaped greens are the norm - propped-up and/or cut out of the slanted terrain. Though perhaps lacking variety, there was no shortage of challenge in approaching these small, benched and exposed (!) targets from differing stances.
Taking a couple of dramatic steps down beyond gorse and a burn, the par-four seventeenth was perhaps the only hole that lived up to the picturesque scene.
A taste of how inland golf once was. Always a shame to see such facilities disappear from the local community.