Monarchs

Congrats Steve Errington

Steve Errington of Burhill Golf Club

Imagine standing on the 4th tee of one of your favorite courses and you still hadn’t made par yet. Worse yet, you started double bogie, double bogie. You wouldn’t be happy, we’d think. Unless you did what Steve Errington did on Saturday, July 2 while playing Kingsbarns.

Harmon Killebrew

We’re not big on baseball here in Scotland. We wouldn’t know a home run from an error. But it doesn’t take a baseball supporter to know this: Harmon C. Killbebrew was as brilliant a man as one would ever meet. Today, he passed away after announcing recently that he would no longer fight the incurable esophageal cancer that he was diagnosed with in December.

Harmon loved golf, St Andrews and Monarchs House. He visited often and we will greatly miss our old friend. We wish his family strength and solace at this most difficult time

Flow gently, sweet Afton! amang thy green braes,
Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise.

~Robert Burns

First at Monarchs House 2011

: The Brumfield Family

Recently, we welcomed our first residents of 2011 at Monarchs House. We were pleased to host to the Brumfield family of Katy, Texas. The Brumfields visited during the first week of March, enjoyed wonderful weather, golfed and took in all that St Andrews has on offer.

Haste ye back!

Monarchs House Championship 2010

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.