[Malcolm Mckinnon]

Are you interested? Yea or Nay? If Yea I will proceed.

View of Gullane hill from tee box

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[Thomas Dai]

Are you interested? Yea or Nay? If Yea I will proceed.

Yea for sure, please continue. Based on your other photo tours you must have had one damn fine trip!
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[Ed Brzezowski]

Please.  Had one of the best rounds of my life there.

[David Harshbarger]

Yea!  Another fine tour is always welcome, Malcolm!

[Mark_Rowlinson]

All tours are welcome, yours particularly. I'm not being nasty, but note that it is the River Forth, not fourth! I'm a stickler!

[Bill_McBride]

All tours are welcome, yours particularly. I'm not being nasty, but note that it is the River Forth, not fourth! I'm a stickler!

Actually I believe it's the Firth of Forth.   Unless "Firth" means "river."   

[Greg Holland]

Yea.  First course I ever played in Scotland!

[Greg Taylor]

carry on

 

[David Whitmer]

Yes please, Malcolm. I played Gullane No. 2 last year, but it was raining sideways, and as such I was unable to snap many photos. I loved the golf course, though.

[Duncan Cheslett]

All tours are welcome, yours particularly. I'm not being nasty, but note that it is the River Forth, not fourth! I'm a stickler!

Actually I believe it's the Firth of Forth.   Unless "Firth" means "river."  

I think you'll find that 'firth' generally means 'estuary'.

As in;

Firth of Forth
Firth of Clyde
Solway Firth

etc
etc

[Shane Wright]

Yes Malcolm, I'd be very interested in seeing your photo tour.  It's been 13 years since I've been there and I'm sure your tour will recapture a couple of areas of the property I've been trying to remember accurately.

Thanks

[George Freeman]

Please!

[Eric Strulowitz]

Definitely interested Malcolm!

Have played all the Gullane courses and IMHO the  walks up and down that hill, and the views at the top,  make Gullane one of the great walking courses in the world.

Thanks for sharing and look forward to the pics.

[Malcolm Mckinnon]

Affirmative then!

I have a dinner out tonight and will start work on this when I get back.

[Malcolm Mckinnon]

All,

Working on my photos but I bet the stupid autocorrect on my computer changed my spelling of forth and I did not notice.

[Malcolm Mckinnon]

So, after two weeks of just hanging out in the city of Edinburgh doing the festival I finally put my wife, Blair, on an aircraft back to the States.

Blair had fun!

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She liked the Bier und Wein Gartens a lot!

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Once she sped off on United Airlines I picked up my rental car at the EDI airport and after cleaning up back at the flat, I headed off to Gullane where I knew they had a Twilight Greens Fee of 35 quid.

A very welcoming visitors clubhouse! They are cheerfully coining money here. Even though I was paying a fraction they treated me like a king!

I had the first twilight tee time but there was not a soul behind me. "Take your time" they said, "hit as many balls as you like and practice putt as much as you want", "Just bring back y'er unused practiced balls to the starters hut" and I did.

This was my 2nd Willie Park Jr. after the very obscure Castine Golf Club in Maine, USA so I was very curious to see if there were similarities.

1st tee/ par 4/ 366 yds

Tee view, A flat transition hole to the edge of Gullane Hill.

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Approach view on 1st hole

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View from left of 1st green

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1st green from behind

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2nd tee/ Par 4/ 334 yds

Another transition hole along the edge of Gullane hill. Everything slopes Right to left here as we make the traverse.

A blind drive towards a stake!

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Approach on 2nd hole along the bottom of Gullane hill

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Getting closer on 2nd

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2nd hole approach from from right side

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2nd green from behind looking back

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3rd tee/ Par 4/ 233 yds

UP UP UP we go on Gullane hill!

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Pretty likely you will end up with a blind uphill approach like this

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A view from the right side of green looking back towards Edinburgh. Aurther's seat just right of center and Pentland hills to the left.

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3rd green looking inland and back.

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4th Tee/ par 4/ 454 yds

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4th hole/ closer in

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4th Green

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4th looking back towards tee up the hill

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5th tee/ 197 yds/ par 3

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5th closer in

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5th looking back

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6th tee/ Par 5/ 537 yards

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Approach on 6th

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Nearer the 6th green

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7th tee/ Par 4/ 375 yds

Out to the Forth River!

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Fairway on 7th

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7th Green

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8th tee/ Par 4/ 393 yds.

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Pure linksland to the right of 8!!!!

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8th approach

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More 8th approach

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9th tee/ Par 4/ 354 yds

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9th approach

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10th tee/ Par 4/ 381 yds

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10th approach

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11th tee/ Par 3/ 215 yds

This is where I had to say "Holy F***ing S***". What a view!!!

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Getting closer

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And closer

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More good stuff to come. In fact this is the beginning of what could be classifieds as the "Amen" corner of Gullane Golf Club, Course No. 2!

[Emil Weber]

That looks much better than what I expected.. thanks!

[Shane Wright]

Malcolm, thank you.  Great tour.  Gullane's turf is hard to beat.  I love the subtle deception of the distance of the bunkers from the greens. 

[Thomas Dai]

Very nice tour Malcolm. Many thanks for posting it.

I presume that's Craigielaw and Kilspindie across Aberlady Bay?

I wonder how many golf courses you can see from the top of this hill - N-S-E-and-W?



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[Niall C]

Thomas

Correct. From the sixth (?) tee on No. 1 you can see Muirfield if you look the other way. I presume you can see No. 2 and No. 3 as well as Luffness New (which borders No 3) this side of the bay and Kilspindie and Craigielaw on the other side. Not sure if you can see anything of Longniddry beyond that, I doubt it.

Niall

[Marty Bonnar]

Plus about six over there on the south Fife coast!!!
Cheers,
F.

[Dan Kelly]

Conditioning looks exceptional there.

You talking about Gullane, or Blair?

(Sorry. Someone had to say it.)

[Frank Pont]

My good friend David Morgan (the current secretary at Broadstone) has just accepted the job of Secretary at Gullane, look forward to visiting him in the next year!

[John Crowley]

Thanks Malcolm,
This brought back fond memories of several trips to Gullane and numerous surrounding courses. Arguably one of the best concentrations of golf anywhere. My first course played in Gullane was No.1 for two quid with a junior member with whom the starter paired me.
Rounds with Archie Baird were always a treat.
Am currently helping a friend plan his first trip to Scotland and will have Gullane region high on must see list.

[Malcolm Mckinnon]

Blair is blushing. She teaches indoor cycling classes (spinning). I wish that I could say the same regarding my 50 something physique.

12th tee/ Par 4/ 408 yds

Back down in dramatic fashion to the Forth! Pentland Hills behind! Arthur's seat and Edinburgh visible to the far right.

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Approach on 12 with Pentland hills behind!

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Looking back up to the tee

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13th tee/ Par 4/ 400 yds

A heroic hole back up the hill!

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Bunkers on 13 with green in the distance

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13th green looking back with that incredible natural linksland and Fife in the background!

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14th tee/ Par 4/ 366 yds

We are curving around the hill here quite nicely! Tee shot is blind to the stake!

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14th approach

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15th tee/ Par 3/ 175 yds

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15th green

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16th tee/ Par 5/ 527 yds

A big par 5 back up to the summit of Gullane Hill!

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16 moving on up!

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17th tee/ Par 4/ 361 yds

Back down Gullane hill in a dramatic way, almost drivable!

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17th again! North Berwick Law in the background.

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Just right of 17th green

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18th tee/ Par 4/ 305 yds

Another transitional and flat hole to get us home.

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Approach to 18th green

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18th green

And yes, that is my birdie put!

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This was not a terribly difficult test but I really enjoyed the loop! Thanks Willie Park Jr!

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