{"id":885,"date":"2017-05-18T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2017-05-18T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T13:28:41","slug":"60-dalmahoy-west-7th-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"60. Dalmahoy West. 7th May 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pleasant parkland course which would be ideal for the more social of society golf days. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Summary:\u00a0 Cost “between \u00a330 – \u00a355”.\u00a0 Par 68.\u00a0 Score 88.\u00a0\u00a0Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 2.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

So it has taken\u00a0until 7th May to blog the first course of 2017, due to various travel, work commitments and poor weather!<\/p>\n

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The 8th fairway at Dalmahoy West, a typically open hole on this short parkland course<\/p><\/div>\n

Marriot Hotels run the Dalmahoy Hotel, Golf and Country Club, which is on the South East of Edinburgh about a 10 minute drive from Edinburgh Airport.\u00a0\u00a0 The resort has 2 courses; the East course<\/a>\u00a0is a championship layout designed by James Braid and\u00a0hosted the Solheim Cup in 1992; I played the East course in 2014; \u00a0the West course is a much shorter later addition. \u00a0 Both course are\u00a0part of a 1000 acre estate surrounding Dalmahoy Manor, which was built in the 1720s and converted to a hotel and golf resort in 1927, becoming part of the Marriot organisation in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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The Par 4 5th green at Dalmahoy West<\/p><\/div>\n

The East course, like the West course, is an open parkland layout, where there is ample opportunity to be wild off the tee but able to recover and retain a flattering score. \u00a0If you’re like me, this will suit you, as it allows a freedom to be aggressive, especially off the tee. Additionally, there is only one of the par 4s (the stroke index two 8th) which is over 400 yards, so for all bar the shortest of hitters you are hitting short irons into most greens.<\/p>\n

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The 15th tee, at Dalmahoy West, the start of the trickiest stretch on this resort course. The church to the left of the green is a Scottish Episcopal chapel on the grounds.<\/p><\/div>\n

The highlight of the layout, is\u00a0the 3 tricky holes staring from the 15th; water is in play to the right of the par 4 15th, and then in front of the short 16th which makes it important to play long, especially into the wind. \u00a0The 16th is another par 3, but with 3 well positioned greenside bunkers. \u00a0 I suspect these 3 holes have damaged many a medal scorecard.<\/p>\n

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The well guarded par 3 17th green at Dalmahoy West<\/p><\/div>\n

The course was in reasonable condition when I played, with nice greens, however the tees were poor. \u00a0It was not good value for the price: \u00a0I paid \u00a323 for a twilight slot based on a price match with Teeofftimes.co.uk, although the rack rate states the price\u00a0between “\u00a330 – \u00a355”, and it would be robbery if paying greater than \u00a340 here. \u00a0It would nevertheless\u00a0be a really good society venue, particularly for societies where golf is rather secondary to the socialising.<\/p>\n

I carded an 88, for 34 points, but had a couple of disaster holes: \u00a0a 7 on the par 4 2nd and an 8 on the par 4 11th. \u00a0When will I next get a round without major error!<\/p>\n


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

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

Par\u00a068<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(1 par 5s,\u00a012 par 4s, 5 par 3s)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Distance (yellow)<\/em>: 5051<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moly\u2019s Gross score<\/strong><\/em>: 88.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dalmahoy scorecard – 88<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pleasant parkland course which would be ideal for the more social of society golf days. \u00a0 Summary:\u00a0 Cost “between \u00a330 – \u00a355”.\u00a0 Par 68.\u00a0 Score 88.\u00a0\u00a0Value (out of 5)\u00a0\u2013 2.\u00a0\u00a0 So it has taken\u00a0until 7th May to blog the first course of 2017, due to various travel, work commitments and poor weather! Marriot Hotels run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,42,35,19,29,32,9,54,15,27,38,11,2,81,18,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18-holes","category-1901-1945","category-2-star-overall-value","category-3-star","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-edinburgh-the-lothians","category-holes","category-james-braid","category-overall-value","category-parkland","category-price-range","category-private","category-region","category-when-course-established","category-40-59","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}