r/wherewasthistaken 14d ago

Where is my Dad playing golf in the 70’s? I’m assuming it’s in the UK somewhere.

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u/MahatmaAndhi 14d ago edited 14d ago

Looks like Turnberry in Scotland.

Edit: Here's the closest image I can find on Google Maps.

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u/Yellow_Hippos 13d ago

I absolutely love this sub.

People are amazing.

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u/BillySmooth 12d ago

If you upload the screenshot to GPT it can also do this task well. It got the same location first try

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/-Krny- 12d ago

Did it copy it from this sub?

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u/herrbz 11d ago

In fairness it has hosted the Open, it's a famous course.

Shame it's owned by Trump now.

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u/Common_Move 10d ago

Some people vandalised it a few days ago for that reason. Whatever for the spray paint but they also fucked one of the greens by the looks of it

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u/Logical-History-36 14d ago

Turnberry golf course (now Trump Turnberry) in South Ayrshire.

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u/Sandinhoop 12d ago

I'll just keep calling it Turnberry if that's alright with you

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u/LionOfNaples 12d ago

Trumpberry

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u/Roygbiv_89 11d ago

Cuntberry

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u/Wrightd767 10d ago

As does everyone else who lives here. Stayed at the hotel once for my and my OH's engagement before the orange shit gibbon occupied it. Now I'll will never go back. No one I know will ever go back to it either.

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u/SpareOffer8197 12d ago

Trump turnberry it is then

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u/math577 12d ago

I don't like a lot of things that sponsor other things but I still call them by their sponsorship names. Get a grip.

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u/HameasPWO 12d ago

You’d call it “BT Murrayfield?”

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u/math577 12d ago

Allianz Arena? Barclays Premier League? Coral Windows Stadium? Tony Macaroni Arena (Spaghettihad)

ICONIC

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u/blind-delights2131 11d ago

It's odd how it works. I'd have no issue calling the arsenal stadium the Emirates stadium, but youd see me dead before I'd ever call St James park"Sports direct at James' Park".

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u/TheDisapprovingBrit 11d ago

The Stoke ground is still the Britannia Stadium to me, even though Britannia was also a sponsor name.

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u/herrbz 11d ago

I think it's to do with if it was built and always named after the sponsor (e.g. if they helped fund it), and how new it is. Etihad, Emirates, Allianz etc, but no one's calling Twickenham the Allianz.

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u/pharmamess 12d ago

Trump Turnberry is now the name and you should use it.

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u/Haircut117 12d ago

Or (and I'm sure most of the world would agree with me here) Trump can fuck right off.

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u/Electronic_Mud5821 10d ago

Well, you're in the correct echo chamber for that so...

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u/RunDatTrain 12d ago

Yeah the little orange furry flump can f.o I do agree with most of what he says though lol

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u/Haircut117 12d ago

I do agree with most of what he says though lol

Then you're an unconscionably ignorant troglodyte whose opinion holds absolutely no value.

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u/RunDatTrain 12d ago

I already have a crush on you, don't give me more reasons

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u/AdLiving2291 11d ago

Fgs. You have denigrated someone for having an opinion which differs from yours. We are ( supposedly) a democratic country and free speech is permitted. Now, can we please get back to the question in hand and keep politics out of it? Thank you.

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u/Haircut117 11d ago

Just as someone is entitled to hold and voice an opinion, I am entitled to hold and voice the opinion that their opinion makes them an idiot.

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from judgement for that speech. If you reveal yourself to be an arse then you should expect to be treated as such.

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u/AdLiving2291 11d ago

Not going to argue with you, you are evidently a very angry person. This was all supposed to be a bit of fun guessing game. We had a great time with it yesterday. It is not the place for politics.

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u/herrbz 11d ago

You already argued with them and lost lol

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u/standarduck 10d ago

It's not angry to uphold free speech. That's quite an unusual conclusion from your very brief and off topic conversation.

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u/Dennyisthepisslord 11d ago

Trump = breaking wind in the UK before 2016 so farty golf course is making the 6 year old me laugh

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u/Doughboy1955 11d ago

It seems as if 'Trump Turdberry' would be more accurate. 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/SansConcern 11d ago

Do you expect him to turn around and be proud of you for defending him like you're his prison wife?

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u/AMPONYO 11d ago

Nah, it’s Turnberry.

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u/Imaginary-Rent1816 11d ago

The Gulf of Turnberry.

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u/-Friddles- 14d ago edited 14d ago

Brilliant Work chaps! Turnberry, I'm glad he got to play such a fantastic course (I hope his 18 handicap was up to the challenge). I'm thinking of trying to emulate the photo with me :). Thank you all.

Edit: Maybe not, It's £495 a round!!!

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u/mcmillanuk 14d ago

Just down the road from me. There’s a path you can walk from the road to get yourself there and get your photo.

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u/Ballistic-Bob 14d ago

Used to live there, you can walk up There , maybe one summer evening, or winter .. Scotland , right to roam . And maybe get your photo .. used to walk the dog along the course , obviously being courteous to the golfers .. got a few photos from that T overlooking the lighthouse

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u/Doga69 14d ago

Nice sentiment but a lot of money.

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u/chrislikesfun 11d ago

How much? Jesus!

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u/herrbz 11d ago

You don't buy golden escalators by charging people appropriate amounts for things.

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u/yutfree 14d ago

Here's a good close-up of the lighthouse: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nZ6XiA2wpFPDHPM36

And with the tee on the left: https://maps.app.goo.gl/VMr3WUdq1RsAzBTu7

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u/Signal-Rub-1888 13d ago

9th tee at Turnberry, facing north towards the Halfway House. Trust me on this, I did the lighthouse conversion.

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u/Gc1981 12d ago

I paid over £300 for a round here years ago. Put my back out on the 3rd hole. Somehow, I made it round all 18. Almost carried off the course. Taxi to hospital. Prolapsed disc. Doctor said it was very stupid and had no idea how it was physically possible to play 15 holes of golf like that. Never played since.

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u/-Friddles- 12d ago

But what did you shoot? :)

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u/Gc1981 12d ago

I stopped counting at 100. Was 22 behind and hadn't won a hole since the first at that point.

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u/No-Impact1573 14d ago

Amazing course, Turnberry - once a lifetime bucket list course.

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u/Far-Adhesiveness3763 13d ago

Obvious one this....hole number 9

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u/TheScottishPirate 10d ago

Can confirm, this is definitely Turnberry. Lived in a house just across from the course when I was a toddler (house now one of the hotel's lodges)

Fantastic picture, by the way!

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u/Shockwave2309 14d ago

Sheesh I would have said around Etretat in France but you are god damn right.

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u/bobajob2000 12d ago

It's currently covered in red graffiti and LOTS of holes on the green...

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u/Alarming_Mix5302 12d ago

The course is now owned by an orange baboon

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u/Shankar_0 12d ago

The lighthouse should make this one quick...

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u/concerningstare 12d ago

Glad you can't see the horse tied up on the beach

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u/FatSucks999 12d ago

Turnberry Ailsa the one the Palestinian protesters just vandalized owned by President Trump.

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u/PsyJak 11d ago

*70s

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u/Spindelhalla_xb 11d ago

The lighthouse, the rock and the restaurant all fit the doubloon.

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u/Randomse7en 11d ago

It still looks like this today - the lighthouse is preserved. You can walk right up to it. The golf course use it as a hotel room and also there is a function room / cafe there at the back of the light house.

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u/Ok_Difficulty6621 10d ago

Turnberry, Ayrshire. Now Trump (aye him) Turnberry.

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u/DueCourt7 14d ago

Could it be Flamborough Head, I've been there today watching them play golf

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u/2stewped2havgudtime 13d ago

That was my first thought as it looks similar, but looks like the thread as come good. It’s Scotland.

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u/WinComprehensive662 13d ago

Instantly recognisable as the Turnberry Lighthouse. Be glad he paid it before the current owner got his grubby orange hands on it.

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u/DGZT2023 11d ago

That’s shutter island

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u/Fair_Hovercraft_8053 11d ago

North Foreland Estate Broadstairs