Clearly one of the most influential and historically golf designers is Old Tom Morris. Of course, back when he was designing golf courses, a lot of them were nine holes and/or were much shorter by today's standards. However, the concepts of visual deception, thoughtful bunkering and green slopes and other features have been embraced my many of golf's architects over the years. Thus, when one has an opportunity to play an Old Tom Morris designed golf course, I suggest you take the chance.
This one is the Old Tom Morris Links as the Rosapenna golf resort, which has two other golf courses that will be reviewed soon. As is often the case, Tom only designed 9 golf holes (the back nine) and those have been somewhat modernized here and there, but the quirky and thoughtful design lives on. The front nine was designed was Pat Ruddy, the Irish golf architect who also designed The European Club.
All in all, the golf course plays much harder than it's slope would suggest and is a good test of golf. It is tight but not overly penal, with par being a hard score on most holes but bogey being relatively accessible.
This one is the Old Tom Morris Links as the Rosapenna golf resort, which has two other golf courses that will be reviewed soon. As is often the case, Tom only designed 9 golf holes (the back nine) and those have been somewhat modernized here and there, but the quirky and thoughtful design lives on. The front nine was designed was Pat Ruddy, the Irish golf architect who also designed The European Club.
All in all, the golf course plays much harder than it's slope would suggest and is a good test of golf. It is tight but not overly penal, with par being a hard score on most holes but bogey being relatively accessible.
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