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Marty Bonnar

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Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« on: March 30, 2021, 06:32:54 AM »
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Adam Lawrence

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2021, 06:46:50 AM »
Interesting. I did a search on GPH and it appears to be controlled by Mark Ogren, the American owner of Dundee United.
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Adam Lawrence

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Marty Bonnar

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2021, 07:01:25 AM »
I’ll be interested to see if they’re up for resurrecting the battle with the Links Trust over the name.
‘St Andrews International Golf Club’ would definitely be more useful selling memberships than ‘The Feddinch Club’!
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Marty Bonnar

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2021, 10:42:24 AM »
Some earthmoving going on at the site for the past couple of weeks, so it appears to be live.
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Adam Lawrence

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2021, 11:18:29 AM »
Phil Smith posted about it on Facebook a week or two ago...
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Adam Lawrence

Editor, Golf Course Architecture
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Principal, Oxford Golf Consulting
www.oxfordgolfconsulting.com

Author, 'More Enduring Than Brass: a biography of Harry Colt' (forthcoming).

Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

James Reader

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2021, 09:15:38 AM »
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Tom_Doak

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2021, 10:12:24 AM »
I just discovered this project is not where I thought it was!


Decades ago, Mark Parsinen took me to see a site just up on the ridge from the main road into town, where he said Tom Weiskopf had looked at doing a golf course.  I always assumed Feddinch was on that site, but no, it's over adjacent to the Duke's Course.
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Marty Bonnar

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2021, 10:36:45 AM »
Quote from: Tom_Doak on August 21, 2021, 10:12:24 AM
I just discovered this project is not where I thought it was!


Decades ago, Mark Parsinen took me to see a site just up on the ridge from the main road into town, where he said Tom Weiskopf had looked at doing a golf course.  I always assumed Feddinch was on that site, but no, it's over adjacent to the Duke's Course.


Yeah,
I think I remember a proposal for a Course up on that ridge at Kincaple.
Cheers,
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Marty Bonnar

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2021, 11:03:47 AM »
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Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

James Reader

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2021, 11:55:44 AM »
They sent flyers out to locals about a ‘consultation event’ in May, which was then cancelled at short notice.  There was work going on on site for a few weeks as well - largely just clearing the vegetation that had grown since construction was last halted, as far as I can tell - but, as the article says, that was halted a couple of months ago.


It’s been said before on here, but the site doesn’t seem to have a lot going for it as far as I can see.  They’ve moved a lot of earth but it’s still essentially just the side of a hill (and a fairly steep one at that).
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Adam Lawrence

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2021, 12:42:33 PM »
I have always felt that this project would never get finished, or if it did, it would fail spectacularly shortly afterwards.

The business model has never made sense to me. Who is going to pay big money to belong to a club in St Andrews that does not have preferential access to the Old course?

There are, I think off the top of my head, three big money, American-style private golf clubs in Scotland. All of them have something exceptional about their location, golf course, or 'experience': the Carnegie club, Loch Lomond and the Renaissance club. I have never quite understood how Feddinch was supposed to fit into this group.
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Adam Lawrence

Editor, Golf Course Architecture
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Principal, Oxford Golf Consulting
www.oxfordgolfconsulting.com

Author, 'More Enduring Than Brass: a biography of Harry Colt' (forthcoming).

Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

Brian_Ewen

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2022, 12:46:11 PM »
Long-standing plans to build a new golf course on the outskirts of St Andrews have run into yet more difficulties.

https://www.bunkered.co.uk/golf-news/plans-for-new-st-andrews-course-run-into-trouble
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Marty Bonnar

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2024, 05:25:29 AM »
And here we go - again:
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/4938343/feddinch-golf-plans-2/


Given Brian’s Montrose thread - and Fortrose, Coul, etc, etc - is inland golf actually the way Scottish golf should be going?


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The White River runs dark through the heart of the Town,
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James Reader

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Re: Feddinch it is (ehm, Too!)
« Reply #13 on: April 04, 2024, 05:33:33 AM »
I spoke to someone with inside knowledge about this at the weekend.  He’s convinced that it will (finally!) happen this time.
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