Big golf plans for Whisky Isle
A super rich Ozzie financier has announced plans to build a golf course on one of Scotland’s most famous Whisky producing islands. Greg Coffey, a 41-year-old Australian hedge fund manager, has bought Ardfin Estate on the small Hebridean Isle of Jura for £3.5m. He has drawn up the ambitious plans to build an 18-hole championship [...]
Spas and Pars at Archerfield Links
Archerfield Links in East Lothian, Scotland, has opened a new rustic spa and luxury members’ lodges at its 36-hole golf resort near North Berwick. The Fletcher’s Cottage Spa has a rustic theme with a thermal area, including marine steam room, rasul mud cure, private bath huts and a salt room using healing Himalayan salt bricks. [...]
Trump full of wind in Scotland
“They may take our lives but they will not build their wind farms.” That may as well have been Donald Trump’s war cry today as he stormed into the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh claiming to have been duped by Alex Salmond. Mr. Trump, who has Scottish ancestry, has been in dispute with the Scottish government [...]
World’s fifth oldest golf club bunkered by travellers
Celebrations to mark the 450th anniversary of a famous Scottish Links course were threatened after illegal travellers made camp next to the golf course this week. Montrose Golf Club in Angus, North East Scotland, is the world’s fifth oldest golf club and dates back to 1562. Six caravans appeared on the boundaries of the golf [...]
Lay siege to St Andrews – Castle Course Review
Chris Hogben spent four years on the links at St Andrews while studying at Scotland’s oldest University and returns each Spring to play The Old Course and links around the Fife Coast. This year, he took on the latest golf course in the St Andrews Links Trust family, The Castle Course. On a line of [...]
Drams and Pro-ams: Golf Scotland’s Highlands
Scotland is famous worldwide for Whisky and Golf. Global Golfer’s Scotland Editor Thomas Marr reveals his guide to playing Scotland’s best golf courses for less by entering Pro-am’s and Open Competitions. Scotland is the “Home of the Golf,” and a place of pilgrimage for international golfers wishing to fulfill a life long ambition of teeing [...]
Kingsbarns is #1 says Golf Week
Kingsbarns Golf Links in Fife, Scotland, has been voted the number one modern golf course in Great Britain and Ireland by influential American Magazine Golf Week. The Kyle Phillips-designed links on the coast of Fife near St Andrews beat Scottish rivals Castle Stuart in Inverness and Loch Lomond near Glasgow, ranked second and third respectively. [...]
Crags and Flags – Cullen Golf Club
Amongst sleepy fishing villages in the far north eastern tip of Scotland is a course like no other… Cullen in Banffshire- at just 4597-yards and par 63 – is the epitome of quirkiness. Only an hour’s drive from famed championship links like Cruden Bay and Royal Aberdeen, you may laugh at the prospect of playing [...]
Reader Review: Queen’s Course, Gleneagles
Paul Atkinson of Newcastle Upon Tyne, reviews the Queen’s Course at Gleneagles, Perthshire, Scotland Following an early morning outing on the King’s Course I wanted to settle the score on the small, cuter and equally impressive Queen’s course. Right behind the clubhouse the first tee awaits with a sweeping dogleg stretching away in front of [...]
Reader Review: Gleneagles King’s Course
Four handicapper Paul Atkinson, from Newcastle Upon Tyne, reviews the King’s Course at Gleneagles. Gleneagles estate comes at you from out of the blue. Drive through the ordinary Perthshire village of Auchterarder and around half a mile further you reach an oasis of calm. Gleneagles Estate is one of the great places to play golf [...]
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