{"id":113,"date":"2013-12-31T21:59:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2015-07-07T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:04:30","slug":"st-andrews-balgove-26th-dec-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"6. St Andrews Balgove; 26th Dec 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opportunity to score low at St Andrews!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Balgove course is one of the relatively recent addidions to St Andrews.\u00a0 It is in the complex which shares the Golf Academy, Eden and Strathtyrum courses.\u00a0 Doing a course at the Golf Academy normally includes access to the Balgove 9 hole course, and is used as part of the courses.<\/p>\n

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1st tee<\/p><\/div>\n

The course is an ideal beginners course, comprising only one real par 4, with 2 other holes (1st and 2nd) being 220 and 219 yards long but marked as par 4s on the card for some reason.\u00a0 Therefore the SS is really 28 in my opinion, not 30.<\/p>\n

Although a vary short layout, the greens are very nicely architected, to give a real feel for a links greens, with some good greenside bunkers as well.\u00a0 The putting surfaces are however very flat, which when coupled to the excellent surfaces, means that birdie opportunities should exist for all levels of golfer.<\/p>\n

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Balgove double green<\/p><\/div>\n

The 6th hole, runs alongside the “bigger” courses and is bounded by severe gorse, so lost balls are still possible here.<\/p>\n

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Overall, this is a really fun little course, which should not take much longer than an hour to play, and as such is a great warm up to it’s more substantial neighbours – don’t get<\/p>\n

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9th Green<\/p><\/div>\n

seduced though that you’ll score as well on\u00a0the neighbouring courses\u00a0as you will on this!<\/p>\n

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Key Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Course<\/strong><\/em> Type<\/em>:<\/strong> Links<\/p>\n

Green Fees:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>20 Oct -13 Apr –\u00a0 \u00a38;\u00a0 14 Apr – 19 Oct – \u00a315;\u00a0 Children \u00a33<\/p>\n

Par\u00a030<\/strong> <\/em>(3 par 4s,\u00a06 par 3s)<\/p>\n

Distance<\/em>:\u00a0<\/strong>1520 yards<\/p>\n

Moly’s Gross score<\/strong><\/em>: 34<\/p>\n

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Balgove scorecard<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opportunity to score low at St Andrews! The Balgove course is one of the relatively recent addidions to St Andrews.\u00a0 It is in the complex which shares the Golf Academy, Eden and Strathtyrum courses.\u00a0 Doing a course at the Golf Academy normally includes access to the Balgove 9 hole course, and is used as part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,35,16,19,29,32,9,15,10,30,38,2,18,25,57,28,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-5-star","category-3-star","category-9-holes","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-holes","category-links","category-local-authority","category-overall-value","category-price-range","category-region","category-since-2000","category-the-kingdom-of-fife","category-unknown","category-when-course-established","category-20-39","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}