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Birdie Brae

A Journal for the Thrifty Gowfer

The Workshop

Tools, in the works.

Small, practical things we're building. Each one solves a problem we hit ourselves. None will take more than a minute to use.

Booking & Access

Available

Old Course Ballot Calculator

Estimate your odds of getting a tee time through the St Andrews ballot, based on your dates, group size, and how flexible you are.

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Trip Planning

Available

Trip Cost Estimator

Build a Scottish golf trip from the parts — courses, accommodation, hire car, caddies — and see what it actually costs per player and per group.

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Group Trips

Available

Group Cost Splitter

Enter group size, rounds, self-catering or hotel accommodation, and transport. Get a per-head number to send the group — with a one-click payment request to copy into WhatsApp.

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Trip Planning

Available

Golf Insurance Picker

Five questions about the trip — we'll point you at the type of cover you need and the UK providers worth quoting.

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Weather & Conditions

Available

Playability Index

Seven-day golf conditions forecast for seven Scottish regions. Wind, rain and temperature scored 0–10 — so you know whether to pack waterproofs or leave them in the car.

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Trip Planning

Available

Course Finder by Drive Time

Tell us where you're staying — hotel, town or postcode — and we'll rank all 211 Scottish courses by estimated drive time, green fee and type.

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Budget Golf

Available

Green-Fee Tracker

Green fees for 211 Scottish courses, from £15 municipal rounds to £295 on the Old Course. Filter by region and type.

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Tracking

Available

Scottish Course Passport

211 Scottish courses to bag. Tick off every course you've played on a map, filter by region, copy your list. No account needed — stored in your browser.

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Research

Available

Course Comparison

Compare up to 5 Scottish courses side by side — green fee, par, yardage, designer, walkability and more.

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Trip Planning

Available

Round Randomiser

Set your filters — region, budget, course type, holes — and let us pick your next round at random.

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Booking & Access

Available

Booking Window Tracker

When and how to book tee times at Scotland's top courses — ballot systems, written applications, open visitor days.

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Budget Golf

Available

Cheapest Memberships

Annual membership fees for Scottish golf clubs, sorted cheapest first — with joining fees, waiting-list status and a source link for every figure. The database no one else keeps.

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Trip Planning

Available

Course Matchmaker

Answer six quick questions — where, budget, course type, what matters, the walk, access — and we'll rank the Scottish courses that fit you best, and tell you why.

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Trip Planning

Available

Trip Itinerary Builder

Build the trip round by round — add courses from anywhere on the site, arrange them into days, see the drive between rounds and total green fees, then share the plan with the group.

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Got an idea for something else? Tools we build are the ones people actually ask for.

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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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We send one email a week. No more, no less.