I’m standing on the 1st tee at one of Scotland’s great courses and for the first time in my life I’m grasping a hickory golf club in my trembling hands preparing to embark on a life-changing round. We know golf is hard enough, but I’m on the wondrous West Links at North Berwick,…
CLICK FOR MOREIt’s a stiflingly hot summer’s day and our journey to Chart Hills Golf Club is nearing an end, as we negotiate Kent’s charming country lanes – the garden of England is a truly alluring part of the world, even in this heat. We turn through the gates and wind our way along the…
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Like Rome, Sheffield is built on seven hills. High on one of them, on the cusp of the Peak District…
There can be few places to rival Prince’s Golf Club as a place to watch the sun rise on a day like this. We’re sitting by the putting green at The Lodge at Prince’s, waiting. In the dawn mist, Sandwich Bay itself is so still it’s as if someone has placed a piece…
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From bubble wrap terrain to ocean side views, Murcar Links brings the challenge all gofers want and dangles the rewards…
I fell in love with Royal Liverpool Golf Club the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. I…
As I walk towards the 18th green at Royal St George’s Golf Club, through the funnel of Open Championship grandstands…
It’s early on a glorious July morning as I turn left through the gates of Hillside Golf Club. The place is abuzz with people. The team from the DP World Tour are on site constructing grandstands, measuring for yardage books, and preparing for a tour event which arrives here in the next few…
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I’m standing on the 1st tee at one of Scotland’s great courses and for the first time in my life…
For golfers the world over, Royal Dornoch Golf Club represents a unique call to adventure. It’s a pilgrimage which requires commitment,…
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There is no shortage of life to live on any trip to the entertainment capital of the world but what about those Las Vegas golf courses? Where do you begin? Many people travel to Vegas for the casinos and the restaurants, some come for the shows and the concerts, while others are here…
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St. George in Utah is one of the most densely populated golf destinations in the entire United States. It boasts…
Like Rome, Sheffield is built on seven hills. High on one of them, on the cusp of the Peak District…
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The Machrie and Ardfin, two of Scotland’s great island golf experiences, have joined forces to offer travellers a unique opportunity to experience a luxury wilderness golf adventure like no other. The partnership will offer golfers the chance to combine two world-class courses over three nights on Islay and neighbouring Jura, two of Scotland’s…
CLICK FOR MOREIt was 3 in the morning and I was running towards the 1st tee of the Old Course, St Andrews. My alarm had gone off 15 minutes earlier, which seemed reasonable – not too early, but early enough. I boiled a kettle, made some tea, stuffed a snack into my pocket and set…
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My P.E. teacher used to call it the shrivel effect and as I prepared to play St Andrews Old Course…
I fell in love with Royal Liverpool Golf Club the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. I…
It was the music, that damn music that saunters into the living room each April, coercing me into four days of couch-surfing. Golfers around the world know the tune and I can vividly recall the first time I heard it, thinking it was the most ridiculous and pretentious piece of music, perfectly suited…
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Michigan is one of the great golf destinations in the United States of America. It’s nestled within the Great Lakes…
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Lindrick Golf Club saved the Ryder Cup. By the time 1957 came around, the event was on its knees. The US…
Scotland will always be golf’s spiritual home but when you travel around Ireland, golf clubs on your back, it’s hard to shake the feeling that somehow you’ve come home. Full disclosure: I’m a proud Scot, one who has travelled the world in search enriching experiences in golf. I have been fortunate to explore…
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Dublin is one of Europe's most vibrant cities. The stereotypes of Guinness, music and culture are all rich and…
It’s early on a crisp spring morning and my eyes are sweeping across Mount Juliet golf course taking it all…
Rosapenna Hotel & Golf Resort, in County Donegal, Ireland, has announced the launch of a new event for 2024, offering…
It’s early on a crisp spring morning and my eyes are sweeping across Mount Juliet golf course taking it all in – it’s hard to imagine a more tranquil, elegant place to spend time. From the moment you drive through the gates of this sprawling country estate in County Kilkenny, Ireland, there is…
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West Linton Golf Club may not spring immediately to mind when you’re planning an golf trip to this part of…
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In 2023, Italy will host its first Ryder Cup. The Marco Simone Golf Club, just outside Rome, is staging the biennial contest between Europe and the United States, and while most fans will base themselves in the Eternal City for the contest, those looking to lengthen their trip would do well to consider…
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New Zealand is in the midst of a golf boom: new courses are being built, existing courses restored and airport…
Hidden away on the County Wicklow coast, just south of Brittas Bay, you’ll The European Club – a links like no other. It’s a true one-off, a place where the rules of how to design and run a golf club haven’t applied since Pat Ruddy, the effervescent owner and designer, circled over this…
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Three of England’s great Open Championship links have joined forces to offer golfers from across the world a once-in-a-lifetime experience.…
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Rosslare Golf Club is bathed in sunshine as we walk up the final hole of a round that will live long in the memory. It was Walt Whitman who wrote, ‘keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.’ That was certainly how our day on this charming,…
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Three of England’s great Open Championship links have joined forces to offer golfers from across the world a once-in-a-lifetime experience.…
Royal Portrush has the honour of being the only club outside mainland Britain to host the Open Championship. The Wandering…
In my head the atmospheric Old Course was going to be lit up by autumnal sunshine, showing off the home…
Sigmund Freud once claimed all human behaviour is governed by our desire to move towards pleasure and away from pain and now the guys at deWiz believe that principle can improve your golf swing. When I was told I should try the deWiz golf watch, which delivers electric pulses or – whisper it…
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To the guys at FlagBag Golf Co a golf bag is so much more than a functional piece of equipment…
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The view from our balcony at the sumptuous Links House Dornoch is one you could never grow tired of. A few yards to our left is the 1st tee of one of the world’s greatest golf courses, abuzz with greenkeepers, golfers and walkers. To our right is the conservation village of Dornoch with…
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This global pandemic has been difficult enough for golf clubs which have been around for centuries. Imagine, then, trying to…
Despite its remote location, some 30 miles north of Inverness, Royal Dornoch has been an established fixture in the top…
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For golfers the world over, Royal Dornoch Golf Club represents a unique call to adventure. It’s a pilgrimage which requires commitment, dedication and patience. After all this golfing outpost, tucked away in a stunning corner of the Scottish Highlands, sits 50 miles north of Loch Ness and just eight degrees below in the Arctic…
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Scotland will always be golf’s spiritual home but when you travel around Ireland, golf clubs on your back, it’s hard…
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Fyfe Golf unashamedly celebrate Scotland’s rich and storied manufacturing heritage. Their beautiful, handmade products and accessories already grace golf bags and golfers far and wide and each of them come proudly having been ‘Made in Scotland.’ All fabrics are sourced from the finest Scottish mills and weavers and their mission is to reconnect…
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There is no doubt that Scotland is golf’s holy land; the birthplace of the game itself as well as some…
Knowledge is power, so the saying goes, and in golfing terms that has given rise to a new wave of…
I’m standing on the 1st tee at one of Scotland’s great courses and for the first time in my life…
In my head the atmospheric Old Course was going to be lit up by autumnal sunshine, showing off the home of golf in all its picture postcard perfection. In reality, the stoating rain that had threatened to derail my morning round at the Crail Golfing Society, had followed us up the Fife coast.…
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It’s no surprise to find the Scots have more than 100 words for rain – several sprang immediately to mind as I arrived at Crail Golfing Society, the seventh oldest club on the planet. It was a dreich morning, the darkest and dankest of starts to an autumnal day at the easternmost point…
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The views across St Patrick’s Links to Sheephaven Bay would’ve been enough to take my breath away if the wind…
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As I stand on the first tee at Western Gailes Golf Club, it suddenly dawns on me how lucky I am. Not just lucky in the sense that I’m about to play one of Scotland’s finest links courses, but lucky because there’s barely a breath of wind on the Ayrshire coast, this late…
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I wanted to love the Old Course. I tried to love the Old Course. I failed to love the Old…
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