{"id":1678,"date":"2022-01-02T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:20:53","slug":"115-gatehouse-26-oct-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"115. Gatehouse. 26 Oct 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joyful little gem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round \u00a315. Par 33. Course Rating \/ Slope Rating (yellow) 32\/115. Value (out of 5) \u2013 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you only have fun playing golf if you play well? That was the question I pondered when assessing Gatehouse, a 9 hole golf course in Gatehouse of Fleet, a lovely little town in Dumfries and Galloway, which takes its name from the “Water of Fleet’ river that flows to the sea at nearby Kirkcudbright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moly at the short par three 5th tee at Gatehouse with magnificent Dumfries and Galloway backdrop<\/strong>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is a ‘highland\/heathland’ course, with outstanding views. The clubhouse, a lovely little ‘shed’ type building, shouted ‘golf in its basic form’ to me. The course has been around for a hundred years (founded 1921) and probably has changed very little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second at Gatehouse, a beautiful mid length, par 4, with blind tee shot – plenty of room to the left of the marker.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The course has plenty of variety as well, requiring all your clubs (well me, anyway) – one par 5, four par 3s and 4s. The par 3s in particular are varied and collectively difficult. The first, an uphill par 3 of over 200 yards, played like a short par 4. The 8th and 9th are great finishing holes, with the downhill 160 yard 9th presenting a potential disaster if you go long – don’t do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The approach shot to the par 4 forth hole, at 322 yards (white), with the wonderful views.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I played well – scoring 37, 4 over par – on this course that I wouldn’t recommend for the ‘occasional’ golfer. It’s very undulating, a tough walk, has small greens and many blind tee and approach shots. It was quite slippery when I played and actually could be a bit hazardous (my playing partner Fran fell on one of the slopes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The difficult par 3 eight hole, where being long is better than short.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Overall, its really great value golf. The greens and fairways were in excellent condition and overall this is highly recommended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ‘highland’ style clubhouse, typical of Scottish 9 hole courses.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

But even without playing well, I think I would have come to the same conclusion – this is Scottish golf personified in many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Course<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Type<\/em>:<\/strong>\u00a0Heathland<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Par 33\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(1 par 5, 4 par 4s, 4 par 3s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distance<\/em>: 2418<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moly\u2019s Gross score<\/strong><\/em>:\u00a037<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moly’s scorecard at Gatehouse – 37 and great fun<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joyful little gem Round \u00a315. Par 33. Course Rating \/ Slope Rating (yellow) 32\/115. Value (out of 5) \u2013 4 Can you only have fun playing golf if you play well? That was the question I pondered when assessing Gatehouse, a 9 hole golf course in Gatehouse of Fleet, a lovely little town in Dumfries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,35,46,16,19,29,32,9,52,13,15,31,38,2,18,3,28,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1901-1945","category-3-star","category-4-star-overall-value","category-9-holes","category-course-architech","category-course-owned-by","category-course-quality","category-course-type","category-dumfries-galloway","category-heathland","category-holes","category-members","category-overall-value","category-price-range","category-region","category-under-20","category-unknown","category-when-course-established","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scotlandgolfbible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}