{"id":409,"date":"2015-07-17T11:05:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T11:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2015-08-08T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T09:22:26","slug":"24-glenrothes-15th-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=409","title":{"rendered":"24. Glenrothes. 15th July 2015."},"content":{"rendered":"

Challenging Parkland Golf in Centre of Fife<\/strong><\/p>\n

Weekday round\u00a0 \u00a318;\u00a0weekend \u00a322\u00a0.\u00a0 \u00a0Par 71.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 4.5<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"1st<\/a>

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

Glenrothes golf course is\u00a0set in\u00a0a prominent position on the high ground to the west of Glenrothes and offers a mainly parkland setting; some\u00a0of the back 9\u00a0is exposed to the elements\u00a0with a more heathland feel.<\/p>\n

\"Approach<\/a>

Approach to the 7th at Glenrothes<\/p><\/div>\n

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It\u00a0is one of 7 courses managed by the Fife Golf Trust<\/a> which was established\u00a0in 2011\u00a0to take over\u00a0Fife Council’s\u00a0directly managed courses.\u00a0 This is becoming a common practice by Local Authorities in Scotland to manage golf courses.\u00a0 The golf club itself is private, like many Scottish clubs associated with publicly owned\u00a0courses,\u00a0and welcomes visitors\u00a0.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The heathland feel of the 12th at Glenrothes<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is a challenging golf course, with quite wide fairways, although if you stray into the rough you are penalised severely, so be well equipped with balls if you are wayward from the tee.\u00a0 There are some great individual holes, with the highlights for me being the 9th, 10th and 12th.\u00a0 The bunkers to the long par 3 10th being very well positioned, so better being long than short.<\/p>\n

\"18th<\/a>

18th green and clubhouse at Glenrothes<\/p><\/div>\n

The heathland\u00a0holes on the back 9, 11th through 13th, are exposed to the elements and in a breeze (which I had) proved to be a\u00a0card wrecker – I was 15 over for these 3 holes, with several lost balls in the heavy rough.\u00a0\u00a0 Another thing to be aware of is the large greens, therefore ample opportunity to 3 putt.<\/p>\n

\"Amply<\/a>

Amply named final hole – given my 62 on the back 9.<\/p><\/div>\n

The course was in\u00a0very good condition when I played, with only some attention to some fairways needed to get to\u00a0the next level.\u00a0 However, with a twilight round only \u00a312 (after 3pm), this is fantastic value golf.\u00a0 I think many visitors to Scotland would be surprised at the quality of such a public golf course.<\/p>\n

This is a highly recommended\u00a0course to play.<\/p>\n

Some Fact<\/strong>s<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Par\u00a071<\/strong> <\/em>(3 par 5,\u00a011 par 4s,\u00a04 par 3s)<\/h3>\n

Distance (yellow)<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a06223\u00a0yards<\/p>\n

Moly’s Gross Score<\/strong>\u00a0 107<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Moly’s Glenrothes Scorecard – 107 (62 on back 9!)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Challenging Parkland Golf in Centre of Fife Weekday round\u00a0 \u00a318;\u00a0weekend \u00a322\u00a0.\u00a0 \u00a0Par 71.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 4.5 Glenrothes golf course is\u00a0set in\u00a0a prominent position on the high ground to the west of Glenrothes and offers a mainly parkland setting; some\u00a0of the back 9\u00a0is exposed to the elements\u00a0with a more heathland feel.       […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,36,47,19,29,32,9,15,38,11,2,18,57,73,3,28,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18-holes","category-1946-1980","category-4-star","category-4-5-star","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-holes","category-overall-value","category-parkland","category-price-range","category-region","category-the-kingdom-of-fife","category-trust","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\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}