Tuesday, October 12, 2004
On the way to Carnoustie
Now that we've done Royal Dornoch and Cruden Bay and continuing on our way to Carnoustie.
Do we want to make a stop over in the Granite City?
Where once streamlined clipper ships left the slipways for the China tea trade, now oil executives from all over the world drive to their comfortable homes in the suburbs.
Or to golf courses like Royal Aberdeen
Yea! Carnoustie can wait - Or can it?
Maybe just nine holes because according to one fine gentleman.
Royal Aberdeen, located on the north-east coast of Scotland, is widely known for possessing one of the finest first nines in golf. This is unarguable, but what seems debatable is the merit of second nine.
The scribe then finishes off his tour of RAGC with:
Too many travelling golfers head south from Carnoustie or otherwise go inland and up to Dornoch. Absolutely no one should miss this course, as it is the genuine article.
And don't you dare believe all those stories about tight-fisted Aberdonians.
Or the truth in this story, courtesy of the University of Aberdeen Department of Physics
A company of Americans were touring Scotland and lost their way in the North.
Presently they found themselves in the outskirts of a large city.
Stopping their car they asked a boy the name of the town.
"I'll tell ye if ye gie me saxpence" replied the youth.
"Drive on!" said the American - "I guess this is Aberdeen".
Do we want to make a stop over in the Granite City?
Where once streamlined clipper ships left the slipways for the China tea trade, now oil executives from all over the world drive to their comfortable homes in the suburbs.
Or to golf courses like Royal Aberdeen
Yea! Carnoustie can wait - Or can it?
Maybe just nine holes because according to one fine gentleman.
Royal Aberdeen, located on the north-east coast of Scotland, is widely known for possessing one of the finest first nines in golf. This is unarguable, but what seems debatable is the merit of second nine.
The scribe then finishes off his tour of RAGC with:
Too many travelling golfers head south from Carnoustie or otherwise go inland and up to Dornoch. Absolutely no one should miss this course, as it is the genuine article.
And don't you dare believe all those stories about tight-fisted Aberdonians.
Or the truth in this story, courtesy of the University of Aberdeen Department of Physics
A company of Americans were touring Scotland and lost their way in the North.
Presently they found themselves in the outskirts of a large city.
Stopping their car they asked a boy the name of the town.
"I'll tell ye if ye gie me saxpence" replied the youth.
"Drive on!" said the American - "I guess this is Aberdeen".
