http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT-ish: Shock as popular Carrick Knowe Golf Club announces closure en Tue, 19 May 2026 17:53:16 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295668 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:01:24 +0000 gembo 295668@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Course not closing at all. Members of the Carrick Knowe GC will always have to have paid to play via a daily ticket or season ticket or latterly some sort of Edinburgh Leisure thing. See also The Braids. I think a more established and interesting Council course/s also with several private clubs operating therein. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295664 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:47:04 +0000 redmist 295664@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As stated before, as I understand it the course isn't closing - or have I missed something. Its still listed on the Edinburgh Leisure site. Presumably its the council who pay the greenkeepers etc ? The members of the club that is folding can still play there, they will just have to pay the green fee every time or join Edinburgh Leisure. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295659 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:03:25 +0000 I were right about that saddle 295659@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I think the tram only nicked the bit of rough which was over the fence from the first/second fairway</em></p> <p>I never hit the ball anywhere else, ever, off the first tee. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295658 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 13:55:58 +0000 Snowy 295658@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The developers will already be salivating.</p> <p>It would make a great low-level (accessible) park. Agreed that few allotments wouldn't go amiss either.</p> <p>Various outdoor sports could gain facilities, especially with the loss of Meadowbank and the fact that the replacement already looks as though it won't be ready for many years. </p> <p>It's a big space and could facilitate a lot of different activity without doing anything that would permanently remove it as a green space.</p> <p>Gembo, I think the tram only nicked the bit of rough which was over the fence from the first/second fairway, rather than any part of the course itself? Or v little anyway. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295504 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 19:10:02 +0000 Blueth 295504@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Surprised there's no EEN commenters, as with most ills in society, blaming it on cyclists, what with all those cycling clubs poaching members for the "new golf".</p> <p>Still, if the course itself follows then at least there'll be scenic space for some much-needed student accommodation. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295502 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 17:24:06 +0000 chdot 295502@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18496&amp;page=2#post-271450">BMX race track, Cyclocross course</a>, and allotments. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295494 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 15:21:39 +0000 I were right about that saddle 295494@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Golf course rewilding.</em></p> <p>This what has happened to the fourteen hole course unwisely installed between Braid Hills Drive and the Hermitage of Braid. Cafe/club house ransacked and demolished. 2008 was peak golf. I suggest Carrick Knowe be turned into a memorial to my one and only sub-90 round. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295493 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 15:18:40 +0000 gembo 295493@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Once the group in front have played their second shots and moved off to where they have hit their second shots (ideally the green) the group back at the tee can play their tee shots. If we assume no one loss a ball or hits out of bounds by the time the first group in the morning is heading to the 18th green the 36th group should be teeing off. This conveyor belt used to be a feature of golf courses first thing on a Saturday and Sunday mornng. Less so now except places like St. Andrews.</p> <p>Golf clubs make their money out of membership fees (these have come down to attract new members) and selling cheap drink in the 19th hole.</p> <p>Many, many clubs are on brink of insolvency. The courses themselves tend to have been around a long time and maybe a century since they were last farm land. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295492 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:48:22 +0000 wingpig 295492@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><blockquote><em>"...only 18 sets of people can be using the land at any one time..."</em></blockquote></p> <p>Given the speed golf-people move you could fit in a few teams per hole without them getting too crowded.</p> <p>The Memorial to the World Prior to the Invention of Golf is currently being built at the corner of Leith Links by the unused-bowling-green-where-it-would-be-really-useful-to-build-a-skatepark-or-something. Maybe Carrick Knowe could become a park celebrating the <strike>sport</strike> <strike>activity</strike> pastime's demise? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295490 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:35:18 +0000 LivM 295490@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Some more allotments would ease the current shortage.<br /> Car park quite often seems pretty full (we have an allotment there) but I guess only 18 sets of people can be using the land at any one time so it's never going to be that busy, is it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295488 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 14:05:39 +0000 gembo 295488@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was once one under par after nine holes at carrick knowe on the tenth someone coming down the ninth drove his ball straight at me. Bounced just in front of me, ripped over my head. Turned to jelly round returned to normal peeeesh.</p> <p>That is my story. </p> <p>The course ceded land to the tram I think?</p> <p>No golf course ever looks that busy! Harburn on the road down to west Calder does have cars in the carpark. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295487 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:42:56 +0000 unhurt 295487@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Golf course rewilding. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295486 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:58:58 +0000 crowriver 295486@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aha, I didn't realise the course was already run by the council.</p> <p>Still, imagine it can't be long before alternative uses need to be looked at for Carrick Knowe and other golf courses. Portobello, Craigentinny and Silverknowes spring to mind. Would be nice if they were just turned into public parks instead. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295483 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:40:53 +0000 Stickman 295483@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It’s not the Council-run course that is closing: it is the private members club that sits beside the course. </p> <p>Although the long term future of the course itself must still be in doubt. It’s deserted most of the time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19269#post-295482 Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:24:47 +0000 crowriver 295482@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“Closing at this time will ensure that all our creditors can be paid and for our premises to be handed over to The City of Edinburgh Council.</p> <p>“Therefore, Carrick Knowe Golf Club will cease to exist as of 11th November 2018.”</p> <p>Wonder what the council will do with it? Hand it over to Edinburgh Leisure to run? Turn it into a park? Sell it off for housing?</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/shock-as-popular-carrick-knowe-golf-club-announces-closure-1-4827446" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/shock-as-popular-carrick-knowe-golf-club-announces-closure-1-4827446</a> </p>