Forgotten Fairways; Scottish Golf Courses Lost to War Effort

Something I hadn't thought of before.

"Forgotten fairways: Golf courses lost in the rough of war
Scotland has 250 former golf courses, according to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS).
Many of the fairways were lost during the world wars, when bunkers and tees were disappeared under military defences such as pillboxes and trenches.
Some sites were maintained by armed forces personnel in war-time, but fell out of use after the end of the conflicts.
Hundreds of other courses vanished in peace time when they were converted into farmland, or were abandoned because of their remote locations.
RCAHMS has documented some of the forgotten fairways. It has also been taking high quality digital photography of more than 500 of today's courses."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-29063884

 

Gordon, this is astoundingly funny.

for Scotland, it's close to a national disaster to have "so many" golf courses tragically gone.

I had often thought that the Scots love for their homespun game is such that almost the entire unused countryside of Scotland has been converted into golf courses, hasn't it?

Aren't there something like 5 or six thousand golf courses already? Correct me if I'm wrong

Just as an aside, now ive got your attention, how goes the referendum? Must be exciting for Scots. If it passes it will be the first true governence by scots without any outside interfearence, since....let me see.....Hadrian's wall? Correct me if I'm wrong there too, which i'm bound to be.

I hope that the referendum doesn't cause bad blood. Never forget, Gordon Sir, that when Scotland and england began to co-operate, the foundations were laid for the Greatest empire the world had ever seen. That is not something to be forgotten.

And WHERE would the british Army BE without the fifes, drums and pipes, and further where would they be without the steadying influence of the Jock soldier. All that great military history and co-operation down the drain?

The British Army will never be the same.

 

Only 5-6000 golf courses? Must be a helluva lot more lost that that story implies lol.
Please don't mention the referendum; I did once, but I think I got away with it.

 

Interesting article. I must look into Old Drumchapel Golf Course in Glasgow which closed during WWI.
Christopher 47 - Scotland was an independent country until 1707 Act of Union. The referendum has most of us in Scotland at fever pitch awaiting the outcome.

 

How many of those 7000 golf courses are miniature golf's?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_golf

What's your handicap? Everyone knows mine.

 

Toki...I was trying to be funny. The Scots are prickly when it comes to jokes about their governance, aren't they?

 

Only the Scottish folk would see the wartime destruction of golf courses as a national emergency. Can you imagine what a serious blow to morale would have occurred had the Luftwaffe targetted factories for the production of golf clubs and other paraphenalia. A German army invasion of Scotland may well have become a battle for the various golf clubs. We can imagine the tide would have turned when the Germans broke their way into St. Andrews, and the scots fought back with green to green fighting a la Stalingrad.

The Battle of St. Andrewsgrad could have been the turning point of WW2!

 

Almost, Biak! And the R & A voted to allow women in btw.

 

and how many of these Golfs are Volkswagens?