Posts in Tag: Golf in Scotland
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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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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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Crail Balcomie – Quirky, Hilly and Historical
I’ve just finished a ten day nine course visit to Scotland playing Open venues Turnberry, Troon, Carnoustie and Muirfield. I couldn’t be more pleased with the courses, accommodation and the weather. The first two were the responsibility of the expert owner of Golf Travel N.I., Barry McGuigan with whom we toured Northern Ireland in 2015 […]
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Kingsbarns Golf Links – Simply Awesome
Everybody knows that Scotland is the home of golf with the St. Andrews Old Course as the definitive predecessor to sixty million people playing on over 30,000 courses world wide. Ironically the seventh oldest documented golf course was Kingsbarns, not far from St. Andrews, dating from 1823. The reason it is ironic is that that […]
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North Berwick Golf Club Hole by Hole
The North Berwick Golf Club was founded in 1832 and is the thirteenth oldest in the world. In complete contrast to Muirfield which we played as our first course on a nine course golfer’s holiday, North Berwick is welcoming and actually allows guests inside all parts of the clubhouse – and you don’t need a […]
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Muirfield – The Augusta of Scotland?
This is the first post on the 2017 golf odyssey to play nine legendary courses in the home of golf and the ancestral home to at least half of the octet that make up the group. We have arranged the trip through Barry McGuigan who did such a great job on the Northern Ireland tour […]