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• Chinajohn 1,190 Posts

  Sun, Oct 13 2013 10:43 PM

  I've been here a while now, and two largely irrelevant questions have been bugging me since I started.

  On St Andrews #2 from the legend tees on the right side of the fairway looking from the tees to the green (opposite the hotel) there is a single story building, that appears to be quite large, but it's right in the middle of the course. Does anyone know what it is?
  
  On Oakmont on quite a few holes but particularly #3 there are flagpoles, does anyone know why they're there? (Apart from to fly flags from). 

• alosso 21,072 Posts

  Sun, Oct 13 2013 11:28 PM

  +1 H!

  Those aiming guides are at OAK ##1, 3, 4 and 5, usually hidden by the aiming square.

   

  The building at STA is Pilmour House, a public clubhouse with a big restaurant in it, shop etc. as well as the starters and first tees of the New and Jubilee courses. There's a big parking lot on the seaward side, and closer to town (direction of Swilcan Bridge) there is the Ladies Putting Club with the fabulous "Himalayas" putting playground.

  Memories...

  *sighs*

• Chinajohn 1,190 Posts

  Mon, Oct 14 2013 4:02 AM

  Thank you everyone for the replies, I thought it looked like a clubhouse but I thought it was in a strange position i.e. in the middle of the course and I thought the 'real' clubhouse was the thing by the 18th with the clocktower.

   

• 7thwave 556 Posts

  Mon, Oct 14 2013 4:19 AM

  hyena64:

  Well if that's the restaurant & the way to the Ladies Putting Club, I'll have to stop by for a club & a swing or two.                        :-)

  Well,.......it's a swingers club...have ....fun...or whatever :-)