FORE!

There is a certain hole on the Cowal Golf Course, Dunoon on the Clyde, where 2 generations of golfers have learned that the correct line for a blind shot (i.e. playing for a target which is not visible due to the lie of the land) is to aim for the 740 ft. high Inverkip Power Station chimney on the other side of the river.

Tonight ended this tradition.

Very rarely used since construction in 1971, the power station has been demolished over the last year and tonight was the finale watched by thousands from the Isle of Bute to Kilcreggan.

The problem was that it was built as an oil-fired power station when oil was cheap and seen as the way forward over coal which was becoming ever more difficult and expensive. Unfortunately just as construction was finishing, the oil price shot upwards, making oil-fired electricity generation uneconomical.

Inverkip was seldom used in its 42 year history and is now making way for housing.

Meanwhile there will be an instant and massive increase in lost golf balls on the Cowal Peninsula.

see my youtube video of the event or facebook for more.