Falkland Golf Club

After being at the Home of Golf, we were itching to get out on a course for a hack - and try out our fancy new ball markers. So we stopped back in at Falkland Golf Club on our return to Edinburgh for a cheeky 9 holes. The weather was a little questionable, with some threatening clouds hanging around, so we packed our umbrella and a jacket and set out.

The course was a tidy little 9 hole country course. The greens were in great nick, the fairways well maintained and it was a good reintroduction for us to golf. It was a little quirky with the second hole requiring you to hit your tee shot over a football field... But for just 10 pounds each we definitely won't complain!

Playing with hired clubs is always a little tricky, but we had both decided that happy golf was the aim of the day. To be honest we both played pretty well considering we haven't been out for a while, we did give each other a Mulligan though to make up our rustiness. We had to hide under the trees for about 10 minutes from a particularly nasty rain cloud, but once that was over it was a beautiful afternoon.

There were a couple of shots of particular note; both Nathan and Vela hit great shots out of the bunker (filmed both of them), a great bogey saving 20ft putt by Vela, but most impressive of all was when Nathan managed to bounce his tee shot on the 8th off the wall of the cart path and into the back yard of the house behind the tee box...

At the end of our 9 holes we'd managed to achieve our number one goal of happy golf, and both shot sub 50 through the 9 holes. A great way to finish our UK road trip - back to the airport tomorrow headed for a warmer climate!Read more