{"id":543,"date":"2015-10-19T12:57:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2015-10-19T12:57:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T12:57:29","slug":"34-scoonie-15th-oct-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"34. Scoonie. 15th Oct 2015."},"content":{"rendered":"

An easy walking course with good views and subtle\u00a0greens<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Round\u00a0 \u00a318.\u00a0 \u00a0Par 67.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 2.5<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Scoonie is a short and straight forward parkland golf course located on the eastern side of Leven on the Fife coast and has good views out to the Forth Estuary and across to the North Berwick coastline.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The long par 4 6th tee at Scoonie<\/p><\/div>\n

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.\u00a0The actual Scoonie Golf\u00a0Club was formed in 1951, and welcomes visitors to their catering and bar facilities.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>

View through the “forgiving” trees at the 6th.<\/p><\/div>\n

Originally\u00a0a 9 hole course it was extended in 1936 with\u00a0James Braid doing the re-design, albeit it’s unclear what Braid’s exact design changes were, since\u00a0the course lacks sophisticated course architecture one normally expects from a Braid course in my opinion. Parts of the course in fact seem quite immature with small trees aside wide open fairways, and therefore feels much younger.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The 12th at Scoonie – the subtle and often large greens provide a good challenge<\/p><\/div>\n

Having said that, there is still sufficient to keep one interested at Scoonie. \u00a0The greens are subtle and true, with a few of them being very large. \u00a0I suspect not many visitors, of any standard, will fail to 3 putt at least once during a round.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The approach at the long par 4 15th hole, bathed in Autumn colour.<\/p><\/div>\n

The course is a little imbalanced with an outward par of 35 with only one par 3, and inward par of 32 including 4 par 3s. \u00a0There are no par 5s on the course.<\/p>\n

My favourite holes were the short par 4 2nd, which had a steep upward incline to the green, where it is better being long on the approach, the short uphill par 3 13th and the final hole which has a lovely green and well positioned front bunker.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The lovely 18th green at Scoonie<\/p><\/div>\n

On the day, I played poorly on a course which is relatively easy, with a SSS of 64 versus the card of 67 off the yellow, scoring 31 points.<\/p>\n

Scoonie is ideal if you’re looking for a fairly easy walking course, with no major hazards coming into play.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

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

Par\u00a067<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(0 par 5s, 13\u00a0par 4s, 5\u00a0par 3s)<\/h3>\n

Distance (green!)<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a05133 yards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moly’s Gross Score<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a092<\/b><\/p>\n

Stableford 31<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Moly's<\/a>

Moly’s Scoonie scorecard – 92<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An easy walking course with good views and subtle\u00a0greens Round\u00a0 \u00a318.\u00a0 \u00a0Par 67.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 2.5 Scoonie is a short and straight forward parkland golf course located on the eastern side of Leven on the Fife coast and has good views out to the Forth Estuary and across to the North Berwick coastline. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,43,35,19,29,32,9,15,27,30,38,11,2,18,57,3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18-holes","category-1901-1945","category-2-5-star","category-3-star","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-holes","category-james-braid","category-local-authority","category-overall-value","category-parkland","category-price-range","category-region","category-the-kingdom-of-fife","category-under-20","category-when-course-established","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","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=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}