sign in sign up
<<
Home , Andrew Coltart, Andrew Cotter, Bernard Gallacher, Carnoustie Golf Links, Castle Stuart, John Panton

for – North of Scotland area

Royal Dornoch Golf Club the Northern Open; the Scottish Ladies; and the Scottish Professional Championships. Improved transport systems have helped international golfers and a stream of personalities visit the Club and their praise is unstinting. headed North in 1981, the year after winning the third of five Open Championships at . He arrived to play 18 holes, but had three rounds and 'the most fun I've ever had on Dornoch is far from the main centers of a '. Tom Watson, now an Honorary population and so has never been host to the Member of the Club, returned before the 1996 most widely advertised national championships. Open at Lytham and his view of the course has Nevertheless it has hosted through the years not changed.

Nairn Golf Club Nestling on the shores of the Moray Firth this Traditional Scottish Golf Course was created from a Highland wilderness of gorse and heather, and tests the talents of professional and amateur alike. Founded in 1887, it is now one of the best courses in Scotland, and has hosted a large number of important championships. It hosted the Curtis Cup in 2012. The Nairn Golf Club was awarded No 9 in the definitive list of the Top 100 Courses in Scotland 2011. "Nairn is a classic, traditional out-and- back links, and the opening half a dozen holes along the coast rival anything at more illustrious Scottish courses" said Jock Howard, commissioning editor at Golf World. "The putting surfaces are in immaculate condition and the variety of the examination never gets boring. I can't think of anywhere I would rather be on a sleepy summer afternoon." Ranked number 9, The Nairn Golf Club received high marks from the report's illustrious panel of judges, which included three-times captain Bernard Gallacher, Major winner , Ryder Cup player and broadcasters Ewen Murray and Andrew Cotter.

Scotland for Golf – North of Scotland area

Nairn Dunbar Golf Club many National Championships, in 2009 the Scottish Ladies Under 21 Strokeplay, 2010 the World One Armed Championships and is host in 2011 to the Scottish Boys Strokeplay Championship and the North of Scotland Amateur Championship (David Blair). By the time you have completed this superb test of golf you will have used every club in your bag. Additional fairway bunkers recently added are Over a hundred years of golfing history that turning a very good golf course into a great golf have carved a Championship links course on the course. As the course is fairly flat it lends itself shores of the Moray Firth. The Club has hosted to players of all abilities and fitness.

Castle Stuart Golf Links The venue for the Barclays and the Black Isle - Kessock bridge and Championship in 2011, 2012 and 2013. As Chanonry Lighthouse perhaps the most notable. is to Ayrshire and Gleneagles is to Perthshire, has been conceived to be for the Highlands – a beacon reaching out to golfers throughout the world. The centre piece for this destination golf resort will be Castle Stuart Golf Links, a championship links course overlooking the Moray Firth and well-known landmarks that are synonymous with

Carnoustie Golf Links in the modern mind with the sight of a forlorn Jean Van de Velde paddling in the Barry Burn in 1999, when a truly amazing and controversial Open Championship catapulted back to prominence in sensational fashion. Carnoustie has had a tumultuous history and is sited just nine miles across the Firth of Tay from . While the Royal & Ancient has ruled the golf world, the oldest artisan Club in

the world was in fact formed at Carnoustie in Home of 1931, 1937, 1839 on a links that has always been operated 1953, 1968, 1975 1999 & 2007. Host of the Seniors Open 2010 and the Women's British as a municipal course Open 2011. Carnoustie is forever remembered

Scotland for Golf – North of Scotland area

Pitlochry Golf Course On the grounds of ancient Pictish forts, where Cecil Hutcheson. It has been played by the likes druids once met and where the footsteps of of , , , Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, General and Pitlochry’s own Ryder Cup Mackay and the Earl of Marr once fell, there player John Panton. now lies one of the finest inland golf courses in Scotland. With sweeping views down the Tummel Valley and in the shadow of the Ben Y Vrackie, the course has been entertaining visitors and members for over one hundred years. The course was laid out in 1908 by the renowned golf architect, Willie Fernie of Troon, opened in 1909, and later modernized by Major

In 1909 the club founded the Highland Amateur Open Tournament, which is held annually in August. For a century it has attracted Scotland’s leading players and is still remembered for the 1919 final, where our first Walker Cup captain, W.B. Torrance, beat “The Silver Scot” who went on to become Open Champion on both sides of the Atlantic.