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Ayr Golf Week- A guide to the courses
AYR BELLEISLE GOLF COURSE AYR SEAFIELD GOLF COURSE AYR DALMILLING GOLF COURSE
Length 6446 yards par-71 SSS 72 Length 5481 yards par-68 SSS 67 Length 5686 yards par-69 SSS 68
Belleisle Park Doonfoot Road, Ayr, Belleisle Park Doonfoot Road, Ayr, KA7 Westwood Avenue, Ayr KA8 0QY,
KA7 4DU, Telephone 01292 441258 4DU, Telephone 01292 441258 Telephone 01292 263893
BELLEISLEis far from a course of modest SEAFIELDruns adjacent to Belleisle, within FIRST opened in 1961, Dalmilling is set
aspiration. Designed by James Braid in 1927, the bounds of the Old Racecourse in Ayr, and between the famous Racecourse and the A77.
it is a course of genuine and proven quality, shares all the same facilities. It is an 18-hole This is, as they say, honest and open parkland
providing an enjoyable challenge to hordes of course and although shorter than its that plays away from the clubhouse and dips
appreciative golfers who are only too happy to championship neighbour, offers an interesting into a rolling valley. The river Ayr borders the
sing its many praises. Belleisle is often quoted mix of 10 parkland and eight links style holes southern end of the course, with some of its
as one of the best public courses in Scotland with tight and deceptively testing greens and tributary burns adding interest to the early
–if it weren’t for those upstarts St Andrews strategically placed bunkers. Many a scorecard holes, especially the sixth, a 135-yard par
and Carnoustie, that is. Tour players like to tells a torrid tale. Players are left wondering three that is virtually surrounded by water.
sharpen their pencils before major just how that putt slipped by, or how that Playing here you are aware that you are
competitions here! That’s how good it is, and bunker was “in play” when it looked easily in the heart of “Burns Country”, where the
surely one of the few true municipals to host carried. When this hidden gem is played famous poet Robert Burns was born and raised.
professional tournaments. alone, or in combination with its “big sister”
Belleisle is a classic and a parkland course of of Belleisle, there is no more attractive
genuine character. Set in the harmonious or challenging day’s golf in Scotland.
woodland of Belleisle Park, its beech tree lined
and extra long fairways are interlaced by the
serpentine-like Curtecan Burn. There are only
two par-4s under 400 yards and a cracker of a
par-3 at the 17th.
• There may be some alterations to yardages of courses specified due to course redesign.
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