St.Andrews

WRENALDO

Does anyone know the chance of getting a tee-time for a four-ball high/low/impossible at andrews using there advanced reservations for the following year please ?

PhilipMarlowe

Don't know about in-season but a group of us go (in November) and they do good packages, booked through the hotels in the town. We play The Old, The New and The Jubilee courses... if you were watching the helicopter shots at the open then you'd see that the 3 courses are right beside each other, the other two are set between the old and the beach.

slumped

Online booking for 2011 opens in September sometime. Get in early and you'll get the dates you want.

Don't mean to be pedantic, but it is "St Andrews" not "St. Andrews"

S

WRENALDO

Thanks for the replies and help guys.

sweetswing

Licksy wrote: »

Don't know about in-season but a group of us go (in November) and they do good packages, booked through the hotels in the town. We play The Old, The New and The Jubilee courses... if you were watching the helicopter shots at the open then you'd see that the 3 courses are right beside each other, the other two are set between the old and the beach.

is there good crack to be had in the town its self?
what sort of cash would this set ya back?

PhilipMarlowe

The town itself has a great buzz to it naturally. It's also a university town so it's lively with students around for pubs and clubs.
16 of us go together so there's a good buzz within the group anyway.
Cost is around €6-700 for travel (bus to the airport from kilkenny, bus from edinburgh to st andrews, ryanair flights inc. bag and golf bag), golf and accommodation (nice hotel 4 minutes walk from the valley of sin, single rooms, b&b)... travel thursday, golf on friday, sat & sunday and fly home sunday night.
Included in that winter deal are some food/drink vouchers to use in the clubhouse... not huge but everything helps and the food & drink is well priced anyway.

DULLAHAN2

Licksy wrote: »

golf and accommodation (nice hotel 4 minutes walk from the valley of sin, single rooms, b&b)... travel thursday, golf on friday, sat & sunday and fly home sunday night.
Included in that winter deal are some food/drink vouchers to use in the clubhouse... not huge but everything helps and the food & drink is well priced anyway.

Do you book the golf through the hotel or do you book them seperate?

ipitydafool

Licksy wrote: »

The town itself has a great buzz to it naturally. It's also a university town so it's lively with students around for pubs and clubs.
16 of us go together so there's a good buzz within the group anyway.
Cost is around €6-700 for travel (bus to the airport from kilkenny, bus from edinburgh to st andrews, ryanair flights inc. bag and golf bag), golf and accommodation (nice hotel 4 minutes walk from the valley of sin, single rooms, b&b)... travel thursday, golf on friday, sat & sunday and fly home sunday night.
Included in that winter deal are some food/drink vouchers to use in the clubhouse... not huge but everything helps and the food & drink is well priced anyway.

Thanks for the info licksy.I was watching the golf with a mate yesterday who's getting married next year and looking for a place to go for his stag this november/december. I'm dying to play st andrew's so I'm going to try and convince him to make it a golfing stag! what is the name of the hotel you stay in? Also do you have to use the mats when playing the old course in November or is just December to March?

conno16

boards golf outing 2011??

licksy - get some quotes etc and we'll take it from there
myself, urself, trampas and stockdam will kick it off

ANXIOUS

conno16 wrote: »

boards golf outing 2011??

licksy - get some quotes etc and we'll take it from there
myself, urself, trampas and stockdam will kick it off

You'd want to make sure that doesnt clash with your trip to pebble beach. Just think conno you could play the two major courses months apart.

Licksy, i read you have to have a >24 handicap. Do you just bring your gui card?

conno16

ANXIOUS wrote: »

You'd want to make sure that doesnt clash with your trip to pebble beach. Just think conno you could play the two major courses months apart.

Licksy, i read you have to have a >24 handicap. Do you just bring your gui card?

pebble beach is late sept

this is 2011 we're talking about

PhilipMarlowe

A lot of questions are answered in this thread from my first trip in 2007, and again in '08 and '09.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055174508

Some availability still for 2010, can't wait to go again to be honest.
Yes you use mats on the old at that time but we just move our shots to the side and place in the "rough". Only used mats on 2 shots last year, on 1 and 18 on The Old (no rough in sight) and birdied both of them

The_Architect

Have a go at the pre-booking scheme by all means but even if you don't succeed, there is no better place to go for a week's golfing holiday...

The town just has a great golfing vibe...

Each day, you can then put the name of your fourball in the ballot for the following day (I'd guess about a 33% success rate on average)... Meanwhile,buy yourself a links ticket and avail of the other courses, especially The New and The Eden,the latter of which is great fun... the Jubilee is long and a lesser course to those two in my opinion...

Also worth seeing The Castle Course for good modern architecture, The Dukes course for a great rebunkering scheme on a parkland course... And especially Kingsbarns which is hands down the best course built in Britain & Ireland for 50 years...

Finally if the ballot isn't working out for The Old Course and you are getting worried, you can always go down to the starter first thing (about 5.30) in the morning and he'll tell you when to come back that day... You will just not get your fourball - you'll be filling in space in someone else's group...

PhilipMarlowe

The Castle looks impressive... anyone played it?

The_Architect

I've played it a couple of times,walked it a couple of times.

There's some really good design there. Many people think it's over the top and the greens are absolutely wild. But it's brave, strategic architecture. We need more of that.

altogether very good fun