Question for the locals, would the A90 be OK traffic wise if I shoot across to Edinburgh or would I be better crossing the bridge and then turning right to Kirkcaldy and North from there?
From M74 I would suggest heading over the new Clacks bridge at Kincardine, up the A91 to the M90 at Kinross and then up the A90 to Dundee if you really want to avoid the A9 at Auchterader.
Was up Perth way yesterday and the traffic restrictions were on the ring road, you should be fine going M90 > A90.
beaten to it, as above. Would probably avoid Forth Bridge and it's approaches
Size 9's coming in...
Golf is a great game, in Scotland, it is played principally on municipal courses and small golf clubs by a wide demographic, in other parts of the world inc other parts of the UK it is a very expensive and somewhat exclusive game.
Gleneagles station has been a shitehole for decades - I know I used use it in the 80's and 90's, inaccessable and falling apart. They have built a new access road which is infinately safer than the old "jam on brakes and hoik yer wheel round, off the A9" the sad thing is the pedestrian bridge is only temporary.
Gleneagles is the one of the largest employers in Perthshire and the largest private employer, pumps millions into the local economy as 90% of staff live within 10-12miles.
The ongoing financial benefit to the local economy and Scottish Tourisim nevermind Golf will last for decades and spread across the majority of the country.
My kids are off school today and tomorrow you need passes just to get in and out of Auchterarder town, but it is an international event and they don't come that often to Scotland.
As to the balcony story; the house if it is the one I think it is was only recently built (RC was awarded to Gleneagles in 2001)and has a view across the course it doesn't suprise me there was a caveat in there about the use of the balcony. Sky NBC etc have paid £M for TV rights.
And yes I used to work in Golf events/Tourisim and was involved in previous events not just at The Glen but The K Club and The Belfry. I don't play the game cause I'm shite at it and would rather ride my bike.
It feels like the the upper classes can pull in more resources, more restrictions and delays for Joe ordinary that the Commonwealth had in place.
@matt, I had some sympathy for your post until this last part, which is nonsense. Golf is a game for everyone, played by a huge range of different people.
The Ryder Cup is "huge" with a lot of high profile sportsmen. Given what's happening in Syria and Iraq I expect a US/European golf event to be very tightly managed. As for the infrastructure improvements they would have been agreed as part of the event bidding process and the event itself will bring in a huge amount of money for the region. I couldn't get tickets otherwise I would have been up there for the long weekend. The cost to you, a few days disruption. It's really not that bad.
Golf is a really shit use of our countryside though isn't it?Not to mention the terrible waste of water in using it to develop naff tourist resorts in hot countries.
@chakaping, no and governments build courses as they bring in large numbers of tourists and significant revenue. My colleague is in Spain for a week visiting the country/places largely to play golf.
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i went along at 15mph in 2nd gear. the queue was the length of the road by the time i got to the park and ride.
Next time can you make a POV Go Pro movie and add "Anarchy" from the Pistols as the sound track, it will be be a top viewer, go viral or trending and all that 🙂
Wow, what a mad rant about local investment, increase in local profile and a stack of money coming into the economy.
I'm also calling bollx on the balcony story
I'm also calling bollx on the balcony story
I'm guessing there's an injunction on the owner allowing a TV crew to use it, not that s/he can't go out on it.
Next time can you make a POV Go Pro movie and add "Anarchy" from the Pistols as the sound track, it will be be a top viewer, go viral or trending and all that
i like your thinking. stickin' it to the man, middle age style \m/
[i]Golf, a game for toffs, tory's and right wing Christian fundamentalists, utterly detestable sport played by detestable people.[/i]
Slightly unfair old Chap! I am a Golfist and definitely not a toff or a christian fundamentalist.....although I did vote for CMD so I am probably detestable! 🙁
Golf is undeniably sh!t but if we got a new station out of it I'd say crack on!
Now you know how Londoners felt during the Big Sports Day, 2012.
Somebody involved in the opening show was being interviewed on Radiooo scotland this morning, and linked the musical show to the golf show by describing the competition as "rock and roll golf". PMSL.
EDIT - maybe the balcony injuction is against him miking up the Sonos and screaming
"HEEELLLLOOOOOO GLLLLLLEENNNN[b]EEEEGGUUULLLSSSS[/b]" when the cameras are on
It's not my thing personally, but I was going to work through Waverley Station this morning and there were thousands of people all decked out in the Team USA or Team Europe stuff queueing to get to train up there to watch the PRACTICE day. Lots of American accents to be heard, and people from all over Europe. It brings a lot of people to Scotland who will combine it with a longer holiday, which is ideal at the end of the normal tourist season.
It's not my thing personally, but equally many of the folk off to this this event would think it's crazy that people would hike half way up a mountain to shake cow bells and shout at people in disco pyjamas riding push bikes down a hill.
is that balcony story[b] really true?[/b]
According to our admin lady, a fellow harp player who she practices with is the person who owns the balcony, and there a a few other similar stories / urban rumor going round.
So that's a no then ?
