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Murcar Golf Club
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Murcar is in Aberdeen, right next to Royal Aberdeen GC, 2 hours north of St Andrews, Scotland. There's two courses here, the Championship course, 6,540 yards, par 71, and was designed by Archie Simpson and James Braid later. The Strathbie course is par 70, 5,369 yards. The Aberdeenshire coast has some great links courses because of the rolling and tumbling terrain accented by the sandhills, and Murcar is no exception. The routings takes the courses through a series of sandhill ridges and valleys with undulating, uneven fairways bordered by gorse, heather, and tall marram grass, with a few burns thrown in for good measure. Almost every hole provides a sea or coastline view of Aberdeen's harbor to the Girdleness lighthouse, or across the North Sea, and the faint outline of oil rigs. We stumbled on this course by arranging to play at Royal Aberdeen, and would say the quality of the course, conditions, and challenge equal to and less costly than RA.
Posted by: McGregor
Jul 20th, 2010
Very short course at 5875 yards par 69 off the yellow tees, but it is a hugely difficult course, full of subtlety, complexity and all of the other aspects that you'd expect to find on a traditional links course. The course was very dry, so the fairways and greens were running fast. Murcar also had some of the most undulating fairways I've seen on any course, so even a well struck shot to the middle of a fairway could bounce unpredictably towards bunkers or rough. The first couple of holes gave us a flavour of what was to come and was a fairly gentle start. The course really came alive on the 3rd, a tricky downhill 401 par 4. Great fun, but I don't think I've ever seen such large ripples and folds in such a small area. Murcar just didn't let up, with one difficult and/or bizarrely challenging hole after another. I don't think I'd ever tire of playing this course, but is it fair, could I ever master its slopes and greens, or score well? I very much doubt it. Murcar is an extremely difficult and testing course and is a great example of Scottish links golf at its best. Royal Aberdeen is probably more famous, but it's next door neighbour is also well worth playing. Don't expect to score well here unless you've brought your A game and get some lucky breaks along the way, but you'll enjoy it, for all that.
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