June 2009
Happy families at Scotland’s new golf course
Richard Winton: The Herald - Friday 26th June 2009 |
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Weighty splodges of rain begin to fall as Robert Arkley ambles on to the first tee. From the ninth fairway, one of the 100 founder members of Kingsfield Golf Centre, a course only opened in April, hollers "hello" and a greenkeeper hurriedly manoeuvres his buggy to escape an errant drive.
The informality and candour are immediately apparent; the air refreshingly clear of the whiff of superiority that can so often pollute a golf club. It is how Arkley always envisioned it to be during several years of drink-fuelled discussions and early morning musing working this patch of land in Linlithgow when it was just the family farm.
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