{"id":1618,"date":"2021-10-29T14:49:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2021-12-12T18:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T18:30:30","slug":"110-machrie-bay-21-sep-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"110. Machrie Bay. 21 Sep 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Don’t make the same mistake as Walter Hagen – this is not worth playing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round \u00a315. Par 33. Slope (yellow) 100. Value (out of 5) \u2013 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Machrie Bay, is on the west of the island of Arran, not far from the majestic Shiskine. What a big disappointment – unless you’re chalking up all the courses on Arran, I would give this nine hole course a miss. At \u00a315 for nine holes, this was very poor value when compared with the similar prices on offer on the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The very poor first tee at Machrie Bay, not an impressive start.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The world was in the middle of the Covid Pandemic when I played, but in looking closely at the poor course condition it was clear that the pandemic was not the reason – the course was suffering years of neglect. The teeing grounds were bad and many of the greens were covered in moss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The moss covered 1st green at Machrie Bay.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There’s not much to say about the course. It had many very plain holes, little more than fields with a tee at one end and a green at the other. It did have 2 holes worth noting, both which play over the road that circles the island. The 2nd, played from the white tees was a difficult par 3, and the 9th hole, a fairly short par 4, with a very dangerous blind second shot over the road, for which distance control is critical – I played a good shot and never found my ball again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tough par 3 second hole at Machrie Bay – pictured from the white tee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the day I struck the ball well and scored 40, for 19 stableford points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The par four 6th hole – the typical bland hole at Machrie Bay<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Finally to Walter Hagen. There is a delightful newspaper clipping on the Machrie Bay website here<\/a>. Enticed to play “The Machrie” course, a beautiful course on Islay, Hagen turned up in Arran to play Machrie Bay. Don’t make the same mistake – but then again doing something the same as Hagen might not be too bad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Par 33 <\/strong><\/em>(0 par 5, 6 par 4s, 3 par 3s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance<\/em>: 2154<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moly\u2019s Gross score<\/strong><\/em>: 40<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moly’s Machrie Bay scorecard – gross 40, with triple bogie at the last<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t make the same mistake as Walter Hagen – this is not worth playing Round \u00a315. Par 33. Slope (yellow) 100. Value (out of 5) \u2013 1 Machrie Bay, is on the west of the island of Arran, not far from the majestic Shiskine. What a big disappointment – unless you’re chalking up all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,33,23,16,51,19,29,32,9,15,10,31,38,2,18,3,28,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-star-overall-value","category-1-star","category-1901-1945","category-9-holes","category-ayrshire-arran","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-holes","category-links","category-members","category-overall-value","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\/1618","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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}