{"id":1060,"date":"2017-11-03T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2017-11-03T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T17:27:46","slug":"72-crieff-dornock-2nd-nov-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"72. Crieff Dornock. 2nd Nov 2017."},"content":{"rendered":"

Pleasant 9 hole course well suited to holiday or “warm up” golf\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Summary:\u00a0\u00a0Round \u00a312.\u00a0 \u00a0Par 32.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crieff Golf Club’s main course, Ferntower, is one of Scotland’s highly regarded inland courses.\u00a0 The other course, the 9 hole Dornock layout, benefits from the same fine clubhouse and facilities, green keeping staff and well stocked pro-shop, making this a first rate choice for a holiday round of golf if you have a couple of hours to spare.<\/p>\n

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The 9th green at Crieff’s Dornock course, with the clubhouse in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

The club was established in 1891, and Old Tom Morris designed the main course, but the Dornock course only opened in 1980.\u00a0 The open and beautiful Perthshire parkland on which both courses sit was part of the Victorian Spa ground of the well known Crieff Hydro.\u00a0 Crieff is the gateway town to The Trossacks and both manicured courses are just what one might expect to find here, a destination well worth visiting.<\/p>\n

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The par 3 8th hole, one of the more challenging holes on Crieff Dornock<\/p><\/div>\n

The Dornock course is short, and other than the first hole where out of bounds encroaches on the right, the fairways are very generous, so there is no need to carry too many balls.\u00a0 The greens are firm and very true and better than most 9 hole courses I’ve played.\u00a0 \u00a0The course runs along side the Ferntower course, with some adjoining fairways.<\/p>\n

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Fran getting out of the bunker at the 8th at Crieff Dornock<\/p><\/div>\n

The course is made up of 5 par 4s and 4 par 3s, and it’s the latter holes that are the most challenging, since the par 4s are short and prove good par or birdie opportunities.\u00a0 This was very welcome for me after my difficulties playing at Tain<\/a> last week.\u00a0 On the day, I shot 39, +7, and that included a lost ball (under leaves!) on the fairway at 7.<\/p>\n

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Moly on the 6th green at Crieff Dornock, with the typical beautiful parkland surrounding.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dornock was in very good condition when I played, plus dowsed in glorious winter sunshine, with zero wind, which always helps keep the score down.<\/p>\n

This course is highly recommended – it was only \u00a35 for a winter 9 holes, and still good value at \u00a312 for 9 holes in Summer.<\/p>\n

Facts:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Course<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Type<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0Parkland<\/b><\/p>\n

Par 32\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(5 par 4s, 4 par 3s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Distance (black)<\/em>: 2270<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moly\u2019s Gross score<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a039<\/b><\/p>\n

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Moly’s Crieff Dornock scorecard – 39 (7 over)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pleasant 9 hole course well suited to holiday or “warm up” golf\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Summary:\u00a0\u00a0Round \u00a312.\u00a0 \u00a0Par 32.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 4 Crieff Golf Club’s main course, Ferntower, is one of Scotland’s highly regarded inland courses.\u00a0 The other course, the 9 hole Dornock layout, benefits from the same fine clubhouse and facilities, green keeping staff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,45,16,19,29,32,9,15,31,38,11,61,2,18,3,28,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-star","category-3-5-star","category-9-holes","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-holes","category-members","category-overall-value","category-parkland","category-perthshire","category-price-range","category-region","category-under-20","category-unknown","category-when-course-established","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}