"Road" An original hole from the initial layout of the course, over the years two new tees were added in the 70s/80s and trees planted on the right and left hand side of the fairway, originally the only tree was the existing apple tree on the right hand side of the fairway. A stone dyke originally ran across the fairway approximately 30 yards from the tee, the dyke was removed in the 1930s
PAR | YARDS | SI | |
4 | 367 | 4 | |
4 | 358 | 4 |
"Roughmute" Another of the original holes, the 2nd hole takes its name “Roughmute” from the land to the left of the hole, originally known as Roughmute farm. To the left of the 2nd green within the wooded area are the remains of Roughmute cottage and up until the 1960s, this area housed the greens equipment. Additions to the hole over the years are 3 fairway bunkers (now 2) to the right hand side of the fairway built in the 1980s and a further fairway bunker added in the 90s. Ditches were added as part of a drainage programme in the late 90s to remove accumulating surface water from the course. A new medal tee was built in 1980 to the left of the first green, but was subsequently removed due to health and safety concerns with errant tee shots' stone dyke originally ran across the fairway just over the first hill, this was removed in the 1930s. Between 1943 and 1953 the 2nd hole was ploughed up and potato's planted for the war effort.
PAR | YARDS | SI | |
5 | 492 | 6 | |
5 | 474 | 6 |
"Hunters Folly" The 3rd hole is not an original hole and was part of the course redesign in 1938. The name Hunters Folly is taken from the wooded area in Chacefield wood which can be seen in the distance as the backdrop to the green. Irrigation ditches were put in place again in the late 90s as part of the aforementioned drainage programme and the fairway backfilled and heightened within the dip over the first hill. Trees were planted as a wooded area to the left of the fairway in the 60s. In the 70s and 80s further trees were planted on either side of the fairway and behind the green. It still retains its stroke index one as the hardest hole on the course. The original 3rd hole ran from the current 3rd teeing area across a dyke in the direction of the 5th green, to a green built just over the ditch in the current fifth fairway, the remnants of the green can still be seen and has been used in recent years as the 5th winter green, the dyke was removed in the 1930s.
PAR | YARDS | SI | |
4 | 392 | 1 | |
4 | 372 | 1 |
"Rowan Tree" The 4th hole is another hole built as part of the course redesign in 1938.The hole is called Rowan after an old Rowan tree to the left of the current green. Alas the original tree was taken down a few years ago following a disease and a new Rowan sapling replanted to continue the history. The hole itself has undergone several changes over the years. Originally only 135yards with one tee (current ladies tee) a medal tee was added in 1962 increasing the length of the hole to 195 yds and in the 1980s a third front tee was added. Ditches to the left of the hole were again added as during the 90s drainage programme due to significant surface water that gathered behind the 3rd green and on the 5th fairway. Trees were planted to the right and behind the green in 1980 and the fir tree plantation to the left of the hole were originally planted as a nursery in the 1960s with a view to transplanting the young trees elsewhere on the course. Original bunkers were greenside on the top right and bottom left of the green. The bunker on the left hand side of the green accumulated a lot of water and was filled in around 1980 and replaced with two small bunkers to the front left and right of the green. Subsequently the small bunker to the left was eventually filled in leaving the two bunkers on the right we see today. The original 4th hole is the present day 6th hole.
PAR | YARDS | SI | |
3 | 193 | 8 | |
3 | 138 | 8 |
"Towers" The 5th hole is another hole built as part of the course redesign in 1938 with the original tee being the current ladies tee. In 1962 the medal tee was built lengthening the hole to a par 5. The ditches were again introduced in the 1990s as part of the drainage programme. Trees were introduced to the right hand side of the fairway and green in the 1980s. The practice area was originally in the current wooded area between the 3rd + 5th holes before being relocated to its current site in the 1960s. The current yellow tee was built in the 1980s along with another tee to the right of the existing tee, which was removed recently because of health and safety issues. The current fairway bunker from the tee was built in the 1980s and a kidney shaped greenside bunker to the left of the green was removed. A new greenside bunker was built several yards back from the left hand side of the green, this was subsequently filled in. The name of the hole “Towers” originates from two Cooling towers at nearby Bonnybridge power station which could be seen in the background of the hole before being demolished in the 1970s/80s. The original 5th hole was the current 7th hole.
PAR | YARDS | SI | |
5 | 483 | 3 | |
5 | 419 | 3 |
"Wee Pap" The start of what is affectionately known as the “wee field”. Known as the signature hole, the green has six greenside bunkers surrounding a sloping right to left green, and originally the hole was surrounded by a Caledonian pine forest until quarrying took place in the 1960s. Originally a pathway took you under the Bonnybridge to Falkirk/Denny railway line via the current parapet and the only teeing area was the current ladies tee. In 1926 the committee had to place a notice board next to the railway line to stop golfers taking a short cut over the line. As time moved on and the railway became abandoned a medal teeing area was perched on the railway embankment in the vicinity of the current 6th medal tee, the teeing area was protected by a rubber mat. In 1972 the club purchased the now abandoned railway lie and in the late 70s filled the ditch in along the 8th hole. In later years the embankment at the 6th teeing area was cut in half and the current medal tees formed, at the same time a new tee (now no longer used) was developed to the left of the 8th green. The original 6th hole was the current 8th hole.
PAR | YARDS | SI | |
3 | 125 | 9 | |
3 | 101 | 9 |
"Bonnywood" Originally surrounded on the left by a Caledonian pine Forest before quarrying took place in the 1960s, the 7th hole was the original 5th hole, Bonnywood named after the local farm and area. Over the years several new tees have been built culminating in the most recent tee, the new medal tee. Several trees have been added to the right-hand side of the fairway in recent years and to the back of the green. The most significant changes to this hole over the years was first of all the removal of two fairway bunkers set in the hill up to the green on the right and left-hand side of the hill, and secondly the filling in of the railway embankment to the left of the 8th hole. In days gone by any drive from the 7th leaked right would end up down in disused railway with no shot, and as if to make it harder, for a period in the 1970s out of bounds was introduced along this stretch. The original 7th hole ran from the current 9th tee (the original tee can still be seen and is sometimes used as the 6th winter tee) to a green just behind the 4th ladies tee, the fairway passed through a stone dyke removed in the 1930s.
PAR | YARDS | SI | |
4 | 313 | 5 | |
4 | 302 | 5 |
"Old Railway" The 8th hole was the original 6th hole before the course revamp. Until 1980 a disused railway ran along the left hand side of the fairway with a steep embankment of around 20ft covered in rough and gorse, this made the tee shot very demanding. In1980 during the M876 upgrade, the spoil from the new motorway construction was used to infill the railway and trees planted eventually by the forestry commission. Around 1979 attempts were made to lengthen the hole by moving the tee back to where the Nissan hut sits on the practice area and a new green was constructed to the left of the current green. Again health and safety prevented the use of the tee because of any wayward tee shots blindly landing on the 7th fairway and so the new hole was abandoned, the newly constructed green however is still utilised as the winter green. The original 8th hole ran from around the 4th ladies tee to green in the middle of the 9th fairway, the fairway passed through a stone dyke removed in the 1930s
PAR | YARDS | SI | |
4 | 301 | 7 | |
4 | 294 | 7 |
"Norwood" The 9th hole called Norwood after the area and cottage which once stood on the outskirts of the course was part of the redesign in 1938. In the 1960s a nursery of Fir trees were planted on the right-hand side of the fairway, with a view to transplant on the course, they form a wooded area today. In the 1980s the Scottish woodland trust planted Rowan trees on the right hand side of the fairway and a selection of trees on the left hand side. The 9th fairway is separated from the practice area with a row of trees planted in the 1970s. Originally the practice area was a field which was owned and rented out by the club to a local farmer, a fence separated the field from the course. The original 9th hole ran from a teeing area around the Hawthorn tree in the middle of the 9th fairway to the area of the current practice putting green.
PAR | YARDS | SI | |
4 | 400 | 2 | |
4 | 393 | 2 |