{"id":703,"date":"2016-08-11T15:15:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:04:33","slug":"47-huntly-3rd-aug-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"47. Huntly. 3rd Aug 2016 (front 9)."},"content":{"rendered":"

Great value\u00a0little course well worth\u00a0going out of your way for<\/strong><\/p>\n

Round \u00a318. \u00a0Par 67. \u00a0Value (out of 5) 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Huntly Golf Club, in Aberdeenshire, sits between the rivers Deveron and Bogie (the confluence of these rivers\u00a0is between the 12th and 13th tees) and also adjacent to the ruined Huntly Castle, the ancestral home of Clan Gordon. \u00a0The castle ruins provide a backdrop to the par 3 2nd hole.<\/p>\n

\"Signature

Signature par 3 2nd hole at Huntly, with Castle ruins visible through the trees.<\/p><\/div>\n

Established in 1892, the course was dormant during both world wars and after lengthy periods of only 9 holes, has been an 18 hole layout since 1966.<\/p>\n

It is a relatively short course at 5359 yards from medal tees and 4904 yards from the yellow tees. \u00a0However, there are many sloping fairways which, when coulped to the trees, mean accuracy plays a dividend.<\/p>\n

\"Approach

Approach to 4th at Huntly<\/p><\/div>\n

The course has no par 5s, and 5 par 3s – moreover only one par 4 (the 8th) is over 400 yards, and that is by only 7 yards. \u00a0My recommendation would be to leave the driver in the car and ensure you play off the fairways – this will pay dividends. \u00a0Of course if you spy my card (below), you’ll not be surprised to find I didn’t follow my own advice – I lost balls at the 5th and 8th!<\/p>\n

\"Demanding

Demanding tee shot at the 9th at Huntly<\/p><\/div>\n

Fran, my playing partner on the day, and I only played 9 holes before being caught in an absolute downpour – but the kind starter gave us a refund for the holes not played – don’t say Aberdonian’s are mean, its absolutely not true. \u00a0I plan to return and play the back 9 at some point in future.<\/p>\n

There are a number of nice blind driving holes on the front 9, namely the 4th, 5th and 7th, and in reality you only need to get a shot perhaps 180 yards out to make these holes pretty straight forward. \u00a0Of the par 3s the 2nd is a really nice hole, but beware the hidden bunker to the right of the green.<\/p>\n

\"rain

rain stops play at Huntly – I’ll be back!<\/p><\/div>\n

The course was in excellent condition when I played, and along with the picturesque surroundings, make this course really good value at \u00a318. \u00a0Huntly is also a nice little town to visit.<\/p>\n

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

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

Par 67<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(0 par 5s, 13 par 4s, 5\u00a0par 3s)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Distance (yellow)<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a04904 yards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moly\u2019s Gross Score<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a049 (front 9)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Front

Front 9 at Huntly (Rain halted round)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great value\u00a0little course well worth\u00a0going out of your way for Round \u00a318. \u00a0Par 67. \u00a0Value (out of 5) 4 Huntly Golf Club, in Aberdeenshire, sits between the rivers Deveron and Bogie (the confluence of these rivers\u00a0is between the 12th and 13th tees) and also adjacent to the ruined Huntly Castle, the ancestral home of Clan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,46,36,49,19,29,32,9,15,31,38,11,2,18,3,28,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18-holes","category-1851-1900","category-4-star-overall-value","category-4-star","category-aberdeen-city-and-shire","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-holes","category-members","category-overall-value","category-parkland","category-price-range","category-region","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\/703","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=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}