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Random Thoughts from the Home of Golf
The linksland of Castle Stuart
The golf world will miss the greatness and genius that was Seve Ballesteros. He won the Open Championship three times, twice at Royal Lytham & St Annes and once on the Old Course in 1984. Our favorite quote of Seve’s is indicative of his warmth, humour and ability to not take things too seriously. When asked about four putting the 16th green at the 1990 Masters, Seve memorably replied, “I miss, I miss, I miss, I make.” RIP Severiano Ballesteros.
Links Trust Announces Changes
A week ago, the Links Trust, administrator of seven courses in St Andrews including the Old Course, announced that they were making a change to the daily ballot for play on the Old Course. It is a significant change. This from their press release:
All About Price – $241 vs. $552 per night
Whenever we are asked about golfing in Scotland, we are always answering 3 questions: can you get me on the Old Course, what’s the weather like at that time of year and how much is this trip going to cost on a per person basis. Fair questions all. We have answered questions about the Old here and weather here but we have never talked about prices before. Until now.
Maybe Next Year
Monarchs House is in Your Future
The dollar will firm up.
The economy will strengthen.
Your family situation will stabilize.
Your boss will tell you to take a vacation.
You won’t have to pay tuition for your child.
International air travel will become appealing.
Your friends will amazingly experience all of the above at the exact same time as you.
Then…
Monarchs House Championship 2010
Dave Savoring His 41 Over the Himalayas
Dave Savoring His 41 Over the Himalayas
The Monarchs House Championship
Post the best score on the Himalayas Putting Green while staying at Monarchs House and we will engrave your name and score on the Claret Jug replica for time immemorial.
The Himalayas is the historic putting green alongside of the Old Course and the home course of the St. Andrews Ladies Putting Club founded in 1867. The course, resembling an ancient burial grounds for elephants, is laid out weekly and enjoys many competitive matches and 50,000 rounds per annum by the general public.
Congratulations to this year’s 2010 winner, Dave Kusy from New York, NY.
| Year | Score | Winner | Runner-Up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 41 | Dave Kusy | Andy Winton |
| 2009 | 41 | Paul Flynn | Randy Burt |
| 2008 | 39 | Ed Antoian | Robert Campbell |
| 2007 | 39 | Joe Johnson | Phil Pecsoc |
| 2006 | 39 | Steve Kerr | Steve Loy |
| 2005 | 43 | Ken Chock | Sally Lurie |
| 2004 | 39 | Dan Barrett | Anthony Barrett |
| 2003 | 38 | David Brilliant Phil Canders | Sam Simonson |
| 2002 | 42 | Kevin Burke | Miceal Chamberlain Jnr Steve Daly John Harris Mike McCarthy |
Monarchs House Announces Partnership
As anyone who has ever captained a golf trip knows, planning a golfing holiday with your mates can be at the least, challenging and at the most, exasperating. There’s organizing, scheduling, orchestrating, administering, and accounting to do to ensure for a seamless trip. For 10 years, Monarchs House has always lightened a golf captain’s burden by taking on much of this workload but for 2011, we have not only removed much of the captain’s challenge but also made the process a bit of fun as well.
We are pleased to announce a partnership with GolfTripGenius.com. GolfTripGenius.com delivers intuitive, easy to use, web-based software that makes great golf trips even better. The genius edition of the software, available to Monarchs House guests at no charge, helps a Captain with tournaments, parings, scoring, statistics, leader board, and tournament and trip accounting. As an added benefit, if you carry an iPad, you also get dynamic, on course tournament scoring. Once your trip is over, please accept with Monarchs House and GolfTripGenius.com’s compliments a wonderful full color remembrance of your trip. Shortly, we will link to a sample here. Captaining a golf trip has truly never been easier.
If you want to learn more about planning a golf trip and being a captain, GolfTripGenius.com has written, what we think is, the seminal piece on the subject. You can read it here.
We are delighted to add another great feature for our guests’ enjoyment at Monarchs House, your home at the home of golf and with GolfTripGenius.com on board, they make a great golf trip better.
