{"id":17,"date":"2013-12-03T20:35:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:11:55","slug":"welcome-to-the-home-of-golf-scotlandgolfbible-com","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"About the Site and Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Home of Golf &#8211; scotlandgolfbible.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Golf in Scotland is more accessible and affordable than any other country.\u00a0 Although membership subscriptions remain relatively low, over recent decades visitor green fees have risen well above inflation, especially for the great links courses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My name is &#8216;Moly&#8217; McMillan, &#8216;Moly&#8217; being a common nickname for someone born in Dundee, Scotland.\u00a0I am a keen golfer with a handicap fluctuating around 12.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a military career, I ended up in commercial roles for a variety of internet based companies, including assuring profitability for the disruptive company Skype.\u00a0 I developed an eye for pricing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m playing all Scottish accessible golf courses, with the objective of building a knowledge base of where the best value golf is.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m blogging the courses as I go, not necessarily to describe the courses in detail, but to find stories the reader might find interesting and foremost to provide a balanced view on their pricing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in &#8220;Value for Money&#8221; visitor golf, this site might be for you.\u00a0 \u00a0Even if you are wealthy and don&#8217;t care about the price, you still might find something of interest in the blogs &#8211; for example, which hole plays host to &#8220;the witches&#8221; of Shakespeare&#8217;s Macbeth?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moly<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home of Golf &#8211; scotlandgolfbible.com Golf in Scotland is more accessible and affordable than any other country.\u00a0 Although membership subscriptions remain relatively low, over recent decades visitor green fees have risen well above inflation, especially for the great links courses.\u00a0\u00a0 My name is &#8216;Moly&#8217; McMillan, &#8216;Moly&#8217; being a common nickname for someone born in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2632,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}