ASKERNISH GOLF CLUB - THE LOST GOLF COURSE -Hidden Gems, Series 2, Episode 9
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- I visited the holy grail of golf courses - Askernish Golf club on south Uist in the outer Hebrides.
In June 1891 "Old" Tom Morris accompanied by his companion Horace Hutchinson travelled to South Uist at the request of the landowners to inspect the machair lands with a view to laying out a new course. "Old" Tom eventually laid out eighteen holes on the rolling dunes of Askernish Farm, although he declared that the choice of links land available was "staggering." Horace mentioned the trip in a magazine called "Golf", the forerunner of "Golf Illustrated", for which he was to contribute over the next thirty years.
The pair continued their journey, moving north to Stornoway to inspect a new course which had been completed the year before.
During its early years the course would have been used to entice visitors to the island, as a form of sport to be enjoyed along with the traditional persuits of fishing and shooting. We know from Frederick Rea's book "A School in South Uist" that some of the residents were regular players but these would have been mostly confined to the local clergy, doctors and teachers. It was maintained by local farm workers using scythes - they were also seconded as caddies for the visiting gentry.
Askernish farm was adopted into crofting tenure in 1922 and a lack of consistent maintenance led to the course's general decline until Scottish and Northern Airways started a regular air service from Renfrew to Askernish in 1936.
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What's your favourite Old Tom morris course?
Is this the most natural beautiful course ever?
#golfmates comment below ⬇️
It's been a dream of mine, since I was a teenage boy, to play a course that "Old Tom Morris" designed and played! Being disabled, and not able to fly, I get to watch you play these amazing courses!
Thank you, Liam and Smiling Lee, for showing us these hidden gems! You put a huge smile on my face today!!
Natural courses just bring out your natural talent ol’ mate!!
If only the roads were gravel, it would be perfect! Scotland's on the bucket list, this is on the bucket list of bucket lists.
What a spectacular course.
What a course -looks great. My fav old Tom course is Cruden Bay.
Really love the whole Hidden Gems series. Liam, your crew and you deserve top marks for the information, enthusiasm, and technical work, Each episode always reminds me of friends, good times, and the challenge of the game. Askernish Golf Club should be designated a World Historic Site and remain unchanged for all golf enthusiasts and historians, You can see the history in the bunkers on every fairway and the rolling green complexes. Don't know if I will ever get to visit (from Canada) but seeing your enthusiasm for the course, the history, and most importantly the people there always rekindles my love for the game. Thoroughly enjoyed it. This content should find its way onto Golf Channels around the world, :)
We start again in 2 weeks
Blessed to play here many times including this year . It seeps into your bones and your head and you do not want to walk off the 18 th. Driving away ,all you can think about is returning . It is absolutely unique and that’s its gift . No golfing enthusiast can say they understand golf until they play here . Staggering holes include the 4 th , 8 th , 9 th 10 th ,11 th , 12 th plus 14 to 16 th . The 7 th is the greatest , truest golf hole I have ever played . Old Tom Morris is the most important figure in the history of the game , and this is his masterpiece . Do not miss the experience .
Amazing course. Makes one realize how insignifcant the score is but the walk is worth every second.
What an absolute gorgeous piece of land. OTM must have been in his element when he seen it. Would love to go there one day, definitely a bucket list entry.
Absolutely amazing that a course like that still exists.. now on my bucket list.. thanks for sharing
Thank you
Oh to live in your country. To have the chance to play these old links and see the history of golf. I envy you folks a lot. They truly are gems of golf courses. Well done Old Tom Morris!!
Absolutely
What a place and what a history lesson. Magic!!
Just the most spectacular scenery and natural challenge. Always a joy to be there as well as benefitting from a Hebridean Spa (wind and rain)! Watch out for the rabbit holes!
What a place!! Nice to see a mention of my mate Conor Walsh, wasn't expecting that on a course vlog.
Just stunning Liam. An Old Tom masterpiece.
Thank you
Had the great pleasure of playing this course this Summer. Wow! Wow! & wow! Such a stunner, I can’t wait to return.
What a wonderful experience it would be to play an original, untouched Old Tom Morris course. I'd love to have a go at Askernish with my "Hickories". Close your eyes and transport yourself back a hundred years. Golf as it should be played !
I look for courses in the Maryland, Pennsylvania area that have the same look and feel to what I think Scottish courses are like. They are typically designed and built by farmers that have converted their land and use the natural layout on fairways and greens. Rough around the edges, at first they look easy but are demanding. I can walk most of them for $25 US. Beautiful rolling hills with deer, orchards, cattle and eagles. I always encourage my friends to support these courses and not the perfectly manicured, outrageously expensive Pro feel courses. Liam, love your stuff! keep it up.
Stunning day in Scotland.
Absolutely
A terrific course and your enthusiasm, Liam, makes you feel desperate to play it. Definitely a hidden gem. Thanks Liam.
Thank you
Played this in the 1970s. Greens were fenced to keep the sheep off and a local rule was if you hit the fence on the way to the green, you could have another go, but if through the green and hit the fence, play it as it lies( with relief if fence impeded swing). Wonderful!
Loved that Liam! Old Tom Morris was the man indeed.....my family (Mum's side, my great uncles etc.) were all members at Old Prestwick & the old boys loved to talk about him as having been the greenkeeper back in the day! Love the history of the game, as much as love playing! Great video....keep up the good work fella!
Great place, great respect... thanks Liam for taking us to such wonderful authentic places
Most definitely a bucket list course. I have an English coin from Old Tom Morris's birth year 1821 I use as a ball marker. If I ever get to return to the mother land I would play the course with my hickories, I think it would only be fitting. Great video Liam.
Absolutely
My brothers and I are planning a trip with our dad for his 75th birthday in July to Scotland to watch a round of the open in St Andrews and travel around the country to play a few courses, and part of our trip plan is to golf Askernish and I can’t wait, watching this has me so excited to get there!
One thing I can say mate, is that you're never lost for words.
TRUE
Another masterpiece. I would absolutely play this course if I ever get to far north UK, simply because it is an original. Love originals. Thanks for this great video.
Thank you
I play an Old Tom Morris course at Tain GC. So as a fan had to go to Askernish.
Have never had so much fun on a golf course on my own. Would go back in a heartbeat.
What a course , and what made it better liams enthusiasm, it’s contagious he just makes you want to play well
Thank you
Played this remarkable course in September 2023. Alone on the course with 35mph wind and horizontal rain to contend with. I initially regretted starting the round due to the weather conditions but by the time I reached the 3rd, I didn't want the round to finish. Probably lost about 10 balls and found 6. It's still great value at £60 a round.
It’s a magical place
I'd play it in a heartbeat. We've got an Old Tom Morris design nearby - an inland links, and I love playing it.
Absolutely
Liam that course is stunning & will blow anyone's mind. I hope Smiler got to play some holes as well.
You are one fortunate man. Thanks for bringing us along. Appreciate it. 😊
Thank you
Wow… I’ve never heard of this (being in the States) and this is simply stunning. To play this with the rich history it has would most certainly be a dream come true and for me personally, I’d rank this opportunity right up there with playing the Old Course (which is on my bucket list to do some day)! Another one for my “dream bucket list” and thank you Liam for bringing this and it’s history to the rest of the world! Absolutely awesome… 👍👍
Thank you scott
A very special tug on me ol' heart strings there, Liam. About 99% of my DNA comes from just that area. Thanks for the share, mate!
Thank you
Purest Links Golf and a nice little dram of standard glenfiddich on the last hole. Liam knows how and where this game is played.
It would be a dream come true to play that course and toast old Tom with you and the smiler!
it was!
The joy in your voice says it all pal. Loved it😀😀😀👍
Thank you
Just think, what a difficult job old Tom must have had keeping up with a golf course in his day! Thanks for the great look into what it was like to play an old Tom Morris course Liam! Great fun! ⛳
Thank you
What a treat to play golf in the truly original format. Half your luck Liam.
Thank you
This was an editorial masterpiece. Wow!
Thank you
As always....well done Liam....nobody does it better.
Those greens 🙈 great hidden gem 👍 Thanks 🏌🏾♂️
What a gem of a course Liam
Utterly magical - top of my list -awesome original golf
Thank you
That was quality, Tom Morris is a legend
Absolutely
We stayed in the last cottage on the right at the top of the road, just before the main road about 10 years ago and I played this course three times in the most brutal winds imaginable. I remember hitting a driver on one of the little par-3s over a big ditch and just about reached the green.😂 I always tell everybody about this course and most the time they don’t believe me😂
Simply gorgeous golf course. Would love to play it. Nice golf play Liam. Golfer no more nongolfer nonsense. Believe it.
🇨🇦 THANKS YOU. A true treasure for golf.
Thank you
Liam, great playing and great camera work. And thanks for the shout out on #11. I was watchin', pal.
Absolutely brilliant mr Dawson
I love this course Liam, pure natural layout using natures natural curves, brilliant mate 👍🏌️
Thank you
Liam, mate et al, I've been watching your Hidden Gem Series, and honestly, these are the courses I'd like to play on my Bucket List, no matter I'm a mid-high handicapper; thanks for bringing this to the golfers outside og the UK, every country should have a crew like yours, advertising those un known little gems which everyone wants to play. Respect mate, to you nad your crew. I am in Australia North Queensland, and courses are several 100 km's apart. Appreciate your work and that of your team. Good stuff....
Thank you 🙏
What stunning views and the course looks outstanding your a very lucky man playing such gems
A salute to ole Tom Morris! What a course and yes you were on fire! Great video Liam!!
Thank you
Had the privilege of playing there two weeks ago. Absolutely the best days golf I could ever wish to experience. Even the loss of a ball in the middle of a fairway down a rabbit hole made me smile. Thanks for the video brought it all back.
Thank you
Love the greens Liam simple as that you are playing on. Very lucky to have the opportunity to golf there.!!
Absolutely I agree
Spent 2 years living on Benbecula and played the course as a member. I'll never forget the place, It's brutal on windy summers day when the rough is up. Members are unique, and very friendly, expect a ribbing it your English (me Bolton Lad). Expect to share your round with cows in the winter as it's also crofting land (bone of contention). If you get chance play it, you'll remember the experience forever.
Played it with my son about 28 years ago. So impressed with what they've done and so happy they've kept it real. Most of our fun was working out where the fairways were! Great fun for a fiver in an honesty box at that time.
They've done brilliant work
Make me so proud 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
What Ana amazing course that's a proper hidden gem 👌👌🏴🏴
Absolutely it is
These courses have a unique beauty that the most expensive and lavish courses can never match. The fact that the average person can play them is a privilege. Thanks for showing us.
Fantastic video and stellar golf Liam! 👏🏌️♂️⛳🏴
Great video 🤩🤣🥰. Standardized golf hole size …… Tom Morris ! 🙏🏻. (However just a little bit too small 😫)
Almost a decade ago i went from Canada & played the Old Course and a week later played Askernish. Favourite was definitely the latter (though the old course was magic), & I shot at least a dozen more at Askernish. She’s tough
She is
Genius - love this. Worth the views alone. Placed on bucket list.
Yes I would definitely play this course without a shadow of a doubt
Knew you would have Askernish in the "Hidden Gems" series. It had to be. This piece of land reminds me of Norway mixed with the Lake District and is stunning. The course is so quirky and fun to play I could just retire there (my wife wouldn't agree, I fear)...
Absolutely its a magical place
Unbelievable golf in its purest form love it 👍🏌️♂️🔥💥
Some people were born to be on camera and you liam are one of them. Great presenter/entertainer. Keep up the great work 💪
Appreciate it 🙏
Wow! That is about as raw as a course can get! Golf in its infancy, and so pure! Thanks for this gem!!
It is that
Playing some sublime golf there Liam.
The course where I played as a junior with my dad, and then later when 'I took the game up was a Tom Morris original design, originally founded in 1991 - Dewsbury District Golf Club
Nice course, with some cracking views when you reach the high points of the course.
Wonder if it is still ther
American here. Would love to play there! Absolutely stunning!
Thank you
Learned about the top dressing from your green maintenance vlog. Didn't know the rest. The course no words. Like you said a golf course designed by God. The ultimate designer
Absolutely
I played Tain GC in August, some of the fairways are mounded like an elephants graveyard, 11 of the original 15 greens (Old Tom could only find 15 suitable green sites so that was what he built.) still in play today, what a track.
Fantastic
Wow, hope I get to play this some day. Natural beauty, can’t beat it.
Absolutely it has that
Canadians won't admit it, BUT, they TOO, are part of North America. My Fellow Americans! Great video! Thank you Liam and Lee!
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GMF Done ..................... BEAUTIFUL
Brilliant a true links coarse in the beautiful island of Luis
Thank you
What a great course beautiful
It is
Never seen you strike the ball so well. Good on you.
Brilliant course. That might be the first stop on a golf tour. Love it.
Absolutely
LIam, This video for me was more of a spiritual experience than just a golf video!!
Thank you
Golf in its purest form, absolutely stunning. Would love to see more courses set up like this for the pros to play especially those beautiful greens
Glad enjoyed
Absolutely AWESOME!! What a course. I’m so jealous of you Liam. You get to play some unbelievable courses. Great ball striking as well. Well done mate!
Thank you
Gave me goosebumps! So naturally beautiful. Thank you for this gem. Did you feel like you stepped back in time?
That's amazing. I live in Canada. I'm waving hello. I would play there in a heart beat. Cant wait to get back over to England and play some golf
Thank you
That looks so amazing liam not redesigned, those greens its looks like crazy golf but better so challenging nothing is flat. 👍🏌️♂️⛳
Absolutely brilliant it was
Well done Liam, that was bloody brilliant!
I’d play there any day!!
That looks incredible golf in its rarest form best you've ever done
What an absolute gem........Nice 1
Cheers andy
That was absolutely the coolest course ive ever seen. Thanks
Thank you
Staggeringly beautiful!
Absolutely
I envy Liam Harrison. To be able to live the life of golf and playing courses all over the world and have class friends and beautiful family. Count your blessings my friend.
Stunning old course , what golf is all about 👌👌
We all have our own opinion, but for a true natural lynx golf course, and all what goes with it.i do wonder why people give a thumbs down,wake up and smell the beautiful fresh crisp air.
All my love
Nick
Thank you
What a fantastic looking golf course, I would love to play a course like that, thanks for bringing us these hidden gems pal.
Thank you Alan
Definitely on the bucket list, and if I go, I'm bringing my hickories along to make even more authentic.
I'm loving the hidden jems
Keep them coming 😁
Now that's a course that looks a joy to play
Absolutely
Great video there Liam, looked like you had the course to yourself. TY 4 the video buddy, keep well. 👍👏👏😉
Thank you andy
Liam, you are living the life brother. I would love to be able to visit some of the places you’ve been; especially this course. Keep up the great work!
Thank you
This place has blown me away sir,absolutely stunning place 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you
Your emotion was clear and your enthusiasm inspiring. The best vid I've seen of yours and the level of golf was mighty impressive. Man, those greens were brutal. It's now on my bucket list. Baz from Australia
Thank you