Last week I had the pleasure of a round at St Annes Old Links at Blackpool.  It is a pure links course with I enjoyed a warm welcome.  At £40 a round it was good value. 

The members I spoke with were friendly as was the staff at the pro shop.  They spoke very highly of the head greenkeeper who apparently comes from the Inverness area.

 The front none ate me up and I had 4 solid pars to finish before tackling the difficult par 5 18th.  It suckered me into an approach in two, big mistake.  Loved every minute.  I would recommend a visit.

Yeah, very noisy in places, well, most places actually.  Some cracking holes although the greens have been receptive rather than having to land the ball short.  Played there on Tuesday in the HSBC Champion of Champions event and shot a 73 off the Championship tees.  If you remember the 17th, it was playing at 634 yards into the wind !!

Beast of Barnsley wrote (see)

 If you remember the 17th, it was playing at 634 yards into the wind !!

Awesome! 

Beast of Barnsley,

I can remember the 17th tiger tee, it is set a fair bit back.  I recall having the view that John Daly at his longest could never reach that hole in two.  it was playing into the wind when I playec asswell, apparently an unusual direction