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Jay Flemma

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Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« on: August 26, 2014, 01:50:24 PM »
What's it like?  I mean besides being more Tour venue than links...
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Marty Bonnar

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2014, 02:08:17 PM »
The fifth best course in Auchterarder.
F.
The White River runs dark through the heart of the Town,
Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

Jon Wiggett

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2014, 02:40:53 PM »
It is okay but should have been a lot better given the land available. The Kings would have been a much better venue for matchplay IMO.

Jon

Greg Taylor

Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2014, 04:13:06 PM »
Forgettable is how I would describe it!

Niall C

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2014, 09:15:56 AM »
Forgettable is how I would describe it!

Surely not !

I would have thought you would just have to think of any other Nicklaus design to remember the holes  ;)

Niall

Scott Warren

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2014, 05:54:33 PM »
What's it like?  I mean besides being more Tour venue than links...

Being 20 miles inland, we can probably cut it some slack for being more a lot of things than links.

John Cowden

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2014, 08:44:25 PM »
Who among us wouldn't do three days of Kings/Queens and never miss Centenary?  I am not looking forward to all the [clueless]
TV shills lauding the course. 

Lyndell Young

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2014, 10:40:39 PM »
Its been awhile ,but my most vivid memory was that they had riding carts on the Nicklaus course. Decent course but Kings is much better.

Jay Flemma

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2014, 10:36:20 AM »
Carts in Scotland?  That's like hot sauce in breakfast cereal.  >:(
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Brad Klein

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2014, 11:13:48 AM »
Writing it up now for GW; was there last week. It looks ready for a Ryder Cup.

Brad

Brad Isaacs

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2014, 09:42:06 AM »
It is not what you take a trip to Scotland for. Not what you would take a trip to the heathland for either.

Gabe Donohoe

Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2014, 02:06:20 AM »
Not worth the time.  Better off playing another round on the Kings or Queens.  I was playing with an accomplished Landscape Architect who said, why did we come here?  He called it "Mayacama light"

Jay Flemma

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2014, 04:34:55 PM »
Thanks for the tip on Mayacama too:) Why in particular is it so...underwhelming...
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Tom Dunne

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #13 on: September 05, 2014, 05:29:10 PM »
Whoa, let's just draw the brakes here with the Mayacama comparison, which is grossly unfair to a solid golf course in a beautiful wine country setting. The Centenary should be compared with a place like the 2010 at Celtic Manor, and even then I don't think it would fare too well.   

Paul Gray

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2014, 05:38:45 PM »
Writing it up now for GW; was there last week. It looks ready for a Ryder Cup.

Brad

I do hope you cut to the chase.
In the places where golf cuts through pretension and elitism, it thrives and will continue to thrive because the simple virtues of the game and its attendant culture are allowed to be most apparent. - Tim Gavrich

Brad Klein

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2014, 04:26:57 PM »
Paul, you'll have to read the story. I worry here about spoiler alerts, which is what happens when the Web trumps the printed word. But trust me, I get there.

Brad

Mike Policano

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2014, 06:16:33 PM »
Gabe,

Welcome aboard. I will have to get you and Tom out for a round.

Cheers, Mike

Bill_McBride

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #17 on: September 06, 2014, 08:15:09 PM »
Writing it up now for GW; was there last week. It looks ready for a Ryder Cup.

Brad

Because the hospitality tents and grandstands are in place?   ;D

Rich Goodale

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #18 on: September 07, 2014, 05:17:45 AM »
Methinks that Dr. Klein is damning with faint praise.  I do not think that "ready for the Ryder Cup" is a criterion that anybody on this board uses when comparing golf courses.

Oh yeah, I forgot to say that I've played the course and it is very forgettable.
« Last Edit: September 07, 2014, 05:19:23 AM by Rich Goodale »
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Any afterlife is unlikely and/or dodgy.

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Jay Flemma

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #19 on: September 07, 2014, 09:20:18 AM »
Why is it forgettable Rich?!  Deets please:)
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Rich Goodale

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Re: Has anyone played the Centenary Course?
« Reply #20 on: September 07, 2014, 03:35:50 PM »
Why is it forgettable Rich?!  Deets please:)


Everything, Jay, ergo "forgettable."
Life is good.

Any afterlife is unlikely and/or dodgy.

Jean-Paul Parodi

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