Posts in Category: Scotland
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Royal Aberdeen Balgownie Hole by Hole
This is the sixth and final hole by hole post from a fall 2022 golf trip to northeast Scotland arranged by Platinum Golf Scotland. This will feature the revered Balgownie course at Royal Aberdeen. Previously during our stay in the Granite City we played Cruden Bay and Trump Scotland, both of which were exceptional and […]
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Trump Scotland Hole by Hole
This is my fifth post from a fall 2022 golf trip to the northeast coast of Scotland put together for a group of eight by Platinum Golf Scotland. We played our first three rounds out of Inverness before moving to Aberdeen for the next three starting with the absolutely amazing Cruden Bay which I described […]
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Cruden Bay Hole by Hole
This is the fourth of six posts from our fall 2022 trip to Scotland arranged by Platinum Golf Scotland. For our first three rounds we were based out of Inverness and played Nairn, Royal Dornoch and Castle Stuart in that order. We have now relocated to the city of Aberdeen and will be playing Cruden […]
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Castle Stuart Hole by Hole
This is my third hole by hole post from a golf trip to Scotland in September 2022 organized through Platinum Golf Scotland. The first featured Nairn golf links and the second the venerable Royal Dornoch. Both are traditional links courses with antecedents going back centuries. This post will feature a relative newbie on the Scottish […]
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Royal Dornoch Hole by Hole
This is the second of six hole by hole posts from a recent golf trip to northeast Scotland organized by Platinum Golf Scotland. In the first post we played the underrated course at Nairn where we received a warm welcome and I was given a private tour of the course archives. In this post we’ll […]
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Nairn Golf Club Hole by Hole
This is the first of a series of hole by hole posts I will be putting up over the next little while from a golfing trip to Scotland that I took along with seven friends in late September, 2022. Each will feature a hole by hole description of the six links courses we played on […]
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Robert Burns Museum – Simply Marvellous
In the summer of 2018, after driving the North Coast 500, our small group concluded our extensive tour of Scotland with a visit to Ayrshire on the west coast of the Scottish lowlands. The purpose in going here was twofold. First, Ayrshire is the ancestral home of the Dunlop family and the name is everywhere […]
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Handa Island – A Bird Lover’s Haven
Last summer, in preparation for driving Scotland’s great new scenic route the North Coast 500, I came across the name of Handa Island, more by happenstance than any foreknowledge on my part. I learned that it had once been a thriving community relying mostly on the bounty of the sea surrounding the island. Then in 1847, […]
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Cape Wrath – Scotland’s Must Do Daytrip
In a previous post I described why driving Scotland’s North Coast 500 was an absolute imperative for anyone who has an interest in great coastal drives of the world. One of the places I recommended as a must visit was Cape Wrath, the most northwesterly point of mainland Britain. It is remote and you can’t […]