| Kilmarnock
Barassie, Ayrshire, Scotland |
Par
72 Links Course |
Kilmarnock
(Barassie) Golf Club is to be found on the outskirts of Troon
on Scotland’s west coast and has been offering the golfer
a magnificent links golf challenge for over an hundred years.
The
course itself is a Open Championship Final Qualifying venue
with a well deserved reputation for some of the best maintained
greens in Scotland. The club has undergone considerable changes
over the past few years and not only has twenty seven holes
with which to test the golfer but also has much improved facilities
in the clubhouse and professional’s shop The new nine
holes are now part of the championship course and have added
a different dimension to Barassie with a Par of 72 and a Standard
Scratch of 74. The course measures at just under 7000 yards
and the new holes provide some wonderful challenges perhaps
no more so than the par 3 fourth hole or the quirky double
dog leg par 5 eighth.
The
course is tough, but is typically what Scottish Links golf
is about - large undulating greens, deep bunkers and doglegs.
The course has generated some excellent publicity recently
having been host for the British Amateur Championships in
June 2001 along with Prestwick Golf Club and played host to
the European Youths Championships the previous year.For
the visitor they can chose to play eighteen, twenty seven
or thirty six holes or for even better value for money they
can play Barassie in conjunction with Glasgow Gailes and Irvine
Bogside for the three round price of £105. The
Open Qualifier Card is ideal for travellers to
the area In 2003 Barassie Links remains once again one of
the four host courses for the annual Ayrshire Golf Classic
being played in the second week of June at Barassie, Glasgow
Gailes, Western Gailes and Turnberry Kintyre.
It
has the privilege in 2004 of being awarded the British Junior
Open Championship to be played immediately before the Open
Championship at Royal Troon.
Barassie
Links remains to many one of the clichéd Hidden Gems
of Scottish Golf. For those who have played it however it
simply becomes a mystery as to why more haven’t. If
you’re in the area you could certainly do an awful lot
worse than spending a few hours discovering its charms.
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