{"id":643,"date":"2016-06-07T11:24:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=643"},"modified":"2016-06-07T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T11:24:27","slug":"42-murrayshall-lynedoch-6th-june-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"42. Murrayshall Lynedoch. 6th June 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

The “junior” Murrayshall course provides a surprisingly outstanding\u00a0challenge\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Round\u00a0 \u00a330 ( variable on-line).\u00a0 \u00a0Par 68.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013\u00a04<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Murrayshall estate, first built in 1664, was established as a commercially successful Country House hotel in the early 1970s, following the sale of the estate by the Norrie-Millar family, of whom Francis Norrie-Millar was one of the key instrumentalists in building the General Accident insurance company in nearby Perth, only 3 miles to the west of Murrayshall.<\/p>\n

\"Approach

Approach to the par 4 2nd\u00a0– requiring a well placed tee shot, into a narrow green over a deep ditch.<\/p><\/div>\n

The esteemed golf architect Hamilton J Strutt (grandson of James Braid’s foreman) designed the original Championship course in the 70s, and returned to design the Lynedoch course which opened in 2000. \u00a0The latter course is named after Thomas Graham, aka Lord Lynedoch, who became second in command to the Duke of Wellinton’s Armies in the early 1800s.<\/p>\n

Playing the Lynedoch actually reminds you of the Duke of Wellington when\u00a0importalised in song for “marching them up to the top of the hill, and marching them down again!” There’s plenty of hills to march up and down on the Lynedoch course, which feels\u00a0longer than its 5279 yards off the white tees. \u00a0 I wouldn’t recommend carrying a full bag!<\/p>\n

\"The

The demanding SI 1, narrow par 5 14th hole on The Lynedoch<\/p><\/div>\n

The Lynedoch Course\u00a0really surprised me for both its quality and character, given that it is very much the junior course at Murrayshall. \u00a0It is very difficult to give a single course type categorisation, and is a mix of woodland and parkland\/medow, and has some wonderful highland views to the north. \u00a0It also has a fair amount of bracken, ditch\/water hazards and Disney sized bunkers on some holes.<\/p>\n

Given its all round quality and design, it’s arguably better value than the longer Championship course. \u00a0It has many memorable holes, starting on the first, a dog leg right par 4, which is much harder than the stroke index of 10 would suggest. \u00a0The second, a shorter par 4, starts to lay out the need for accuracy needed here. \u00a0Then the 3rd is the first of 6 delighful par 3s, with a hugh amount of variety.<\/p>\n

\"The

The long par 3 15th tee on The Lynedoch, with deep ditch just visible on the left – can’t imagine many 2s here!<\/p><\/div>\n

My favourite holes were the 14th, 15th and 16th, with stroke indexes 1, 5 and 3 repectively – I rather suspect these holes have defined many match play games here. \u00a0The 15th is particularly interesting played as a long par 3 (212 yards) off white but as a short par 4 (294 yards) off yellow. \u00a0It requires the most accurate tee shot, due to a right to left sloping fairway into a deep ravine\/ditch – which I had to chip out of!<\/p>\n

\"View

View from green at the par 3 15th (although par 4 from yellow tees)<\/p><\/div>\n

The course was in excellent all round condition when I played and I had a very mercurial round of 88 (net 2 over), including 3 birdies for the second time in my life, but unfortunately 2 quadruple and 1 triple bogie! \u00a0I think this scorecard rather sums up the Lynedoch course – lots of opportunity and hazard, but very true greens!<\/p>\n

I highly recommend playing here.<\/p>\n

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

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

Par\u00a068<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(2 par 5s, 10\u00a0par 4s, 6\u00a0par 3s)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Distance (white)<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 5279 yards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moly’s Gross Score<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a088<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"A

A mercurial 88, with 3 birdies and 2 quadruple bogies!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “junior” Murrayshall course provides a surprisingly outstanding\u00a0challenge\u00a0\u00a0 Round\u00a0 \u00a330 ( variable on-line).\u00a0 \u00a0Par 68.\u00a0 Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013\u00a04 The Murrayshall estate, first built in 1664, was established as a commercially successful Country House hotel in the early 1970s, following the sale of the estate by the Norrie-Millar family, of whom Francis Norrie-Millar was one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,46,65,19,29,32,9,83,38,61,2,18,25,20,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-star","category-4-star-overall-value","category-commercial","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-hamilton-j-stutt","category-overall-value","category-perthshire","category-price-range","category-region","category-since-2000","category-when-course-established","category-woodland","category-20-39","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":657,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}