Gleneagles PGA Centenary Course
24th October 2020
In: Golf courses
Gleneagles PGA Centenary Course
The venue for the 2014 Ryder Cup and here I was hacking up the course 2 weeks before the event….
Well not quite, I played well and managed to win the Weir Family Foundation Charitable Trust event played at this awesome golf resort.
I had the pleasure of staying for a night at the resort in a suite after playing in the competition. What an amazing experience.
The course itself was fabulous, the weather was amazing, polo shirts and sunshine does not happen that often in Scotland but what a time for the sun to appear. Despite topping my tee shot down the cart path on the first, things did get better. The rough was brutal if you managed to miss a fairway, but I guess the worlds best players don’t miss fairways that often and given they would be there in a week’s time, the reason for such brutal rough was obvious.
The four hours or so just flew by, on a sunny day in Scotland the scenery does not get much better.
After a great evening at the charity event, I headed back to my room and spent a few hours on my balcony with a bottle of wine, just taking in the realisation of where I was until silly o’clock in the morning, I certainly did not want to miss a minute of this amazing resort.
Some 2 weeks later I’m at home watching the pros on TV treading the very same fairways I had been not long before, strangely enough, despite the Ryder Cup nerves, none of them managed to top their tee shot down the cart path on the first.
The venue for the 2014 Ryder Cup and here I was hacking up the course 2 weeks before the event….
Well not quite, I played well and managed to win the Weir Family Foundation Charitable Trust event played at this awesome golf resort.
I had the pleasure of staying for a night at the resort in a suite after playing in the competition. What an amazing experience.
The course itself was fabulous, the weather was amazing, polo shirts and sunshine does not happen that often in Scotland but what a time for the sun to appear. Despite topping my tee shot down the cart path on the first, things did get better. The rough was brutal if you managed to miss a fairway, but I guess the worlds best players don’t miss fairways that often and given they would be there in a week’s time, the reason for such brutal rough was obvious.
The four hours or so just flew by, on a sunny day in Scotland the scenery does not get much better.
After a great evening at the charity event, I headed back to my room and spent a few hours on my balcony with a bottle of wine, just taking in the realisation of where I was until silly o’clock in the morning, I certainly did not want to miss a minute of this amazing resort.
Some 2 weeks later I’m at home watching the pros on TV treading the very same fairways I had been not long before, strangely enough, despite the Ryder Cup nerves, none of them managed to top their tee shot down the cart path on the first.