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Birdie Brae

A Journal for the Thrifty Gowfer

★ Printable Guides ★

Print it, fill it in, book the trip.

The paid guides — the ones with the worksheets in. Everything else on this site stays free, and the free guides are over there.

The Open 2027 Spectator Pack — A4 pages fanned out showing the week grid, the ballot and resale tracker and the cover

21-page A4 PDF · instant download

The Open 2027 Spectator Pack — St Andrews

Going to The Open. Everything except the ticket.

For the 155th Open at St Andrews, 11–18 July 2027. Where to stay and how far out to go, the ticket routes still open now the ballot has closed, getting in each morning via Leuchars, where to stand on the Old Course, and the days you have not got a ticket.

  • Five bases worked through — St Andrews outwards to Edinburgh, priced in morning rather than money
  • The routes in after the ballot: the official resale platform, hospitality, and the underrated practice days
  • Where to stand — the seven shared greens, the loop, the Road Hole and the 18th from the town side
  • Five printable worksheets: ballot and resale tracker, accommodation shortlist, daily plan, spend, checklist
Buy · £12

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Checkout and delivery run through MailerLite, on the account shared across our sister sites — so your receipt and card statement may show RacketRise rather than Birdie Brae.

The Scotland Golf Trip Planner — A4 pages fanned out showing the green-fee budget worksheet, a base-town blueprint and the cover

20-page A4 PDF · instant download

The Scotland Golf Trip Planner — 2027 Edition

From "we should do it" to a tee time.

The workbook a group organiser actually needs: six base-town blueprints, seven worksheets to fill in, the Old Course ballot explained honestly, and the ferry and rail crossings that decide an island week.

  • Six base towns worked through — Fife, East Lothian, Ayrshire, Dornoch, Aberdeen, Islay
  • Seven printable worksheets: green-fee budget, trip budget, bookings, cost split, scorecards
  • Visitor green-fee ranges for 50 courses, straight from the Birdie Brae register
  • The ballot with month-by-month odds, plus the 2027 Open closures to plan around
Buy · £19

Instant download. Print it as often as you like.

Checkout and delivery run through MailerLite, on the account shared across our sister sites — so your receipt and card statement may show RacketRise rather than Birdie Brae.

Green fees in the Scotland Golf Trip Planner come from the same register the course pages render from — 2026 season ranges as published by the clubs. Two courses print no figure at all, because we could not verify them and would rather leave a gap than a number we cannot stand behind. The Open 2027 Spectator Pack prints no figure in money anywhere, for the same reason: every 2027 ticket and accommodation price is an estimate until the R&A publishes.

The Sunday Post

A good round, a fair fee, and a story from the clubhouse.

One email, most Sundays. No affiliate spam, no drip funnel, no nonsense. Just the tee time we'd book this week, the muni we'd play before work, and one piece of Scottish golf history worth the read.

Written by someone who actually plays here.

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