{"id":1058,"date":"2012-12-03T20:36:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonypioppi.com\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2012-12-03T20:38:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:38:32","slug":"machrihanish-dunes-awarded-international-pairs-club-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/1058\/machrihanish-dunes-awarded-international-pairs-club-event","title":{"rendered":"Machrihanish Dunes Gets International Pairs Club Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Pairs Club Event, touted as the largest club event of its kind in the world, selected <a href=\"http:\/\/machrihanishdunes.com\/golf\/the-course\/\">Marchrihanish Dunes Golf Club<\/a> as the site of its 2013 tournament.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1059\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/IMG_4984_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1059\" class=\" wp-image-1059\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2012\/12\/IMG_4984_2-1024x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second hole at Machrihanish Dunes, with Islay in the distance. (Photo: Anthony Pioppi, copyright 2012)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the Buteman.co.uk website, local politicians are revelling in the news. The past three event were held at The Carrick Golf Course in Loch Lomond, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Council leader Roddy McCuish said, \u201cThis event is huge and the world final attracts golfers and their followers from thirty countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a marvellous coup for Kintyre and the impact will spread throughout Argyll and Bute as word is taken to the world of what this unique area has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councillor McCuish with fellow Councillors Dougie Philand and Donald Kelly worked together to attract the event to Machrihanish.<\/p>\n<p>According to the website, &#8220;a conversation with event organisers Golf Frontiers revealed they were looking for an alternative venue in Scotland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire story by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buteman.co.uk\/sport\/local-sport\/golf-top-world-pairs-event-comes-to-argyll-and-bute-1-2669750\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the tournament if you click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golffrontiers.com\/tournaments\/international-pairs-club-event\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The David McLay Kidd design, which borders the Machrihanish Golf Club, opened in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Pairs Club Event, touted as the largest club event of its kind in the world, selected Marchrihanish Dunes&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/courses-and-travel\/1058\/machrihanish-dunes-awarded-international-pairs-club-event\" title=\"ReadMachrihanish Dunes Gets International Pairs Club Event\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,2980,21,420357,420362,420363,420365,420366,17],"tags":[1023],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haversham-baker","category-news","category-blog","category-machrihanish-dunes","category-visitscotland","category-venues-scotland","category-machrihanish-gc","category-machrihanish-dunes-gc","category-courses-and-travel","tag-david-mclay-kidd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}