{"id":862,"date":"2016-12-12T19:01:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2016-12-12T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:01:14","slug":"58-falkland-12th-dec-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"58. Falkland. 12th Dec 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

Flat uninteresting course with a football pitch on the second fairway!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Round (9 holes) \u00a310. \u00a0Par 34. \u00a0Value\u00a0(out of 5) 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had been looking forward to playing Falkland, home of the historic Falkland Palace, for such a long time. \u00a0As a sought after location in Fife, within commuting distance to Edinburgh and set close to the Lomond Hills, I had been expecting much more than I found. \u00a0Especially, after reading of the “undulating parkland with breathtaking views” on the club’s web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"8th

8th at Falkland, the only 2 tier green on the course<\/p><\/div>\n

So here are the facts: \u00a0the course is very flat; the 2 dog leg holes (7 and 9) are enforced through right angle fences of adjacent property; \u00a0and there is a football pitch on the 2nd fairway! \u00a0There are, granted, some nice views of the Lomond Hills but they are in no way “breathtaking”.<\/p>\n

\"The

The 2nd fairway at Falkland and football pitch!<\/p><\/div>\n

The 9 hole course was founded in 1902. However, there are records of golf being played on 3rd Feb 1503 in the vicinity of the Palace by King James in a match against the Earl of Boswell who reportedly won.<\/p>\n

On the day I played, the clubhouse was closed although the green keeper was very friendly, and also fully engaged on treating the greens to rid them of the moss which has set in.<\/p>\n

\"Approach

Approach to the 7th at Falkland with Lomond Hills in view<\/p><\/div>\n

The course presents an interesting challenge off the tee, if you are a hooker of the ball that is, with out of bounds coming into play on holes 1, 2, 3 and 7. \u00a0Other than that there wasn’t much to write about of interest, other than the view beyond\u00a0the 9th green of the majestic Falkland Palace.<\/p>\n

\"Approach

Approach to the 9th at Falkland with the Palace in the background<\/p><\/div>\n

Ata price of \u00a315 for 18 holes, this is a course, in my opinion, suited for those taking up golf\u00a0or just an occasional golfer, but likely to be a disappointment to many well travelled golfers. \u00a0On the day I shot 43, including\u00a0hitting it out of bounds at the 3rd!<\/p>\n

Some Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Par 34 (1 par 5, 5 par 4s, 3 par 3s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Distance yards: \u00a02494<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moly\u2019s Gross Score:\u00a043<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Moly's

Moly’s Falkland 9 hole scorecard – 43<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flat uninteresting course with a football pitch on the second fairway!\u00a0 Round (9 holes) \u00a310. \u00a0Par 34. \u00a0Value\u00a0(out of 5) 2 I had been looking forward to playing Falkland, home of the historic Falkland Palace, for such a long time. \u00a0As a sought after location in Fife, within commuting distance to Edinburgh and set close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,42,34,16,19,29,32,9,15,31,38,11,2,18,57,3,28,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1901-1945","category-2-star-overall-value","category-2-star","category-9-holes","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-the-kingdom-of-fife","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\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}