Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Ludicrous indeed
On Tuesday, October 05, 2004 on a post - "Good (golfing) god it can't be true"
I mentioned the article in The Scotsman about Golf Monthly’s list of leading Scottish golf courses.
And added "I'll leave the last word to Mike Aitken who was less hostile that I thought he'd be."
Now here's the hostility I'd expected and comes from John Huggan of the same newspaper
Course rankings handicapped by rogue entries
Golf Monthly’s failure to separate the course/resort argument has meant that, if we look at the 30 Scottish courses within the 120, the Kings course at Gleneagles is supposedly the fourth-best course in Scotland. Carnoustie is seventh, Royal Troon is 11th, and perhaps most ludicrously, Royal Dornoch is 16th.
Just had to post this and help save the good name of Royal Dorncoch.
I know we were meant to be moving on to Carnoustie which incidentally and according to the readers of Scottish Club Golfer magazine was voted by an astonishing 80% to be the biggest challenge in Scottish Golf.
And how about this "The fateful shot Jean Van de Velde was faced with on the 18th."
I mentioned the article in The Scotsman about Golf Monthly’s list of leading Scottish golf courses.
And added "I'll leave the last word to Mike Aitken who was less hostile that I thought he'd be."
Now here's the hostility I'd expected and comes from John Huggan of the same newspaper
Course rankings handicapped by rogue entries
Golf Monthly’s failure to separate the course/resort argument has meant that, if we look at the 30 Scottish courses within the 120, the Kings course at Gleneagles is supposedly the fourth-best course in Scotland. Carnoustie is seventh, Royal Troon is 11th, and perhaps most ludicrously, Royal Dornoch is 16th.
Just had to post this and help save the good name of Royal Dorncoch.
I know we were meant to be moving on to Carnoustie which incidentally and according to the readers of Scottish Club Golfer magazine was voted by an astonishing 80% to be the biggest challenge in Scottish Golf.
And how about this "The fateful shot Jean Van de Velde was faced with on the 18th."
