{"id":509,"date":"2015-09-15T17:35:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2015-09-15T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T17:35:31","slug":"31-garmouth-kingston-8-sep-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"31. Garmouth & Kingston. 8 Sep 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lovely Parkland & Links Course! – worth playing just for the 15th Tee shot!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Round\u00a0 \u00a320.\u00a0 \u00a0Par 67.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 4<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Garmouth & Kingston Golf Club lies on the west bank\u00a0of the mouth of the River Spey,\u00a0which comes into play only on the 15th, but still probably\u00a0eats up a great deal of golf balls – more later.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"2nd<\/a>

2nd tee – Garmouth & Kingston<\/p><\/div>\n

The course was\u00a0founded in 1932, and at a little over\u00a0<\/span>5000 yards presents, in theory, a reasonably straight forward test of golf, with several short par 3s and par 4s.\u00a0 Its a very interesting layout, with a parkland front 9 and a links back 9 – it is literally 2 different golf courses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"5th<\/a>

5th Green at Garmouth & Kingston – course is in beautiful condition<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s also very flat and an easy walk, with some good views, especially of the Moray Firth\u00a0on the links side – its a really great course for a round whilst on holiday, with many local attractions for the non golfer.<\/p>\n

\"13th<\/a>

13th green with the Moray Firth in the distance.<\/p><\/div>\n

The course was in perfect condition when I played, with beautiful fairways and greens.\u00a0 At only \u00a320 for a round it is great value golf.<\/p>\n

There are a number of nice holes, with most of the par 3s quite short, but they are well guarded so club selection is important, and I suspect difficult if any wind gets up.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The frightening 15th tee – pray for a left to right wind.<\/p><\/div>\n

The highlight of the course is the par 3 15th played alongside the River Spey – a right to left wind would make this hole a nightmare, and must destroy many a medal round.\u00a0 I played badly, except for the 15th where an 8 iron to only 7 feet left me my first birdie for a while – highly enjoyable.<\/p>\n

Worth playing just for the 15th!\u00a0\u00a0Lovely little course and great value.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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

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

Par\u00a067<\/strong> <\/em>(13 par 4s,\u00a05 par 3s)<\/h3>\n

Distance (yellow)<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a05046 yards<\/p>\n

Moly’s Gross Score<\/strong>\u00a0 99<\/b><\/p>\n

Stableford 29<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Moly's<\/a>

Moly’s Garmouth & Kingston Scorecard – 99<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lovely Parkland & Links Course! – worth playing just for the 15th Tee shot! Round\u00a0 \u00a320.\u00a0 \u00a0Par 67.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 4 Garmouth & Kingston Golf Club lies on the west bank\u00a0of the mouth of the River Spey,\u00a0which comes into play only on the 15th, but still probably\u00a0eats up a great deal of golf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,46,36,19,29,32,9,15,10,31,38,11,2,18,56,28,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18-holes","category-1901-1945","category-4-star-overall-value","category-4-star","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-holes","category-links","category-members","category-overall-value","category-parkland","category-price-range","category-region","category-the-highlands","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\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}