{"id":688,"date":"2016-07-09T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2016-07-09T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T14:44:12","slug":"45-elmwood-7th-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"45. Elmwood. 7th July 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

A great society golf course with wide fairways and well maintained facilities<\/strong><\/p>\n

Round \u00a326. \u00a0Par 68. \u00a0Value (out of 5)\u00a03<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elmwood golf course, more correctly named Scottish Rural College (SRUC) Elmwood, is owned and run by Scotland’s national rural college and the Elmwood Campus is based in Cupar, Fife. \u00a0The golf course was opened in 1997 and Geo Certified in 2013 to reward its sustainability credentials. \u00a0\u00a0The College offers various golf management courses with the golf course providing the practical setting for several skill developments, such as greenkeeping.<\/p>\n

\"The

The Par 3 4th at SRUC Elmwood golf course<\/p><\/div>\n

Although there are some\u00a0scenic views of Tarvit Hill and the Lomond Hills Elmwood has a rather bland feel, with many wide and feature light fairways. \u00a0The course highlights are indeed the conditioning of fairways, greens and, in particular, bunkers. \u00a0However, the bunkers had deep surrounds on all sides, meaning that on one occasion when near the “back” of the bunker, I was forced to play away from the hole – a bunker design flaw in my book.<\/p>\n

\"The

The difficult to find 10th green at Elmwood<\/p><\/div>\n

The wide fairways and absense of any water hazards makes this an ideal society day out, and it’s easy to check the course availablity using the club’s on-line booking system, which offers variable pricing discounts.<\/p>\n

\"Elwood

Elwood has excellent bunkers like here at the 12th<\/p><\/div>\n

As to the course, there are some\u00a0difficult and challenging holes. \u00a0The par 4 3rd at 434 yards off yellow is a long 2 shotter and I thought the par 4 10th (worth the SI 5 at least) was the architectural highlight, where unless you were to the left of the fairway with your tee shot, any shot to an angled and well bunkered green was nigh impossible. \u00a0The last 2 holes at around 430 yards each, are also card wreckers. \u00a0With the 16th green being close to the nice clubhouse, I suspect several\u00a0rounds end there!<\/p>\n

\"The

The 17th tee at Elmwood, one of the more aesthetic holes<\/p><\/div>\n

I had a rather inconsistent round with only 2 pars, but a welcome birdie 4 at the long par 5 13th, which I thought was not the hardest hole by any means as the SI 1 suggested.<\/p>\n

I would recommend playing Elmwood for the golf, but if scenery is equally important to you its probably worth a miss.<\/p>\n

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

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

Par 70<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(2 par 5s, 12 par 4s, 4\u00a0par 3s)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Distance (yellow)<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 5757 yards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moly\u2019s Gross Score<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a095<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Moly's

Moly’s scorecard – 95 – at SRUC Elmwood<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A great society golf course with wide fairways and well maintained facilities Round \u00a326. \u00a0Par 68. \u00a0Value (out of 5)\u00a03 Elmwood golf course, more correctly named Scottish Rural College (SRUC) Elmwood, is owned and run by Scotland’s national rural college and the Elmwood Campus is based in Cupar, Fife. \u00a0The golf course was opened in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,44,36,19,29,32,9,15,38,11,2,18,57,73,28,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18-holes","category-1946-1980","category-3-star-overall-value","category-4-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-unknown","category-when-course-established","category-20-39","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}