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…
CLICK FOR MOREIt’s early on a crisp spring morning and I’m sweeping my eyes 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 estate, there is a sense of idyllic seclusion…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
The village of West Linton may not spring immediately to mind when you’re planning an golf trip to this part…
It was the music, that damn music that saunters into the living room each April, coercing me into four days…
Ganton Golf Club is a truly extraordinary place. There is a stillness to it, a timeless elegance. It’s as if…
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…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
It’s early on another stunning summer morning. I’ve just finished a hotel breakfast overlooking the pitch at MK Dons, surrounded…
Funny story – Burnley Golf Club: 10am.The clubhouse is quieter than it should be for a big golf day. No…
The village of West Linton may not spring immediately to mind when you’re planning an golf trip to this part…
Hidden away on the County Wicklow coast, just south of beautiful Brittas Bay, you’ll find a links course like no other. The European Club is a 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…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
There is an inescapable sense of class about everything at Formby Golf Club. You feel it from the moment you…
Scotland will always be golf’s spiritual home but when you travel around Ireland, golf clubs on your back, it’s hard…
It would be understandable if Dundonald Links felt just a little threatened by Ayrshire’s embarrassment of golfing riches. After all…
Rosslare Golf Links 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,…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
Royal Portrush has the honour of being the only club outside mainland Britain to host the Open Championship. The Wandering…
If Scotland is the home of golf, Ireland the luxury holiday villa you can’t wait to go back to, what…
There is an inescapable sense of class about everything at Formby Golf Club. You feel it from the moment you…
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…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
The village of West Linton may not spring immediately to mind when you’re planning an golf trip to this part…
There’s barely a cloud in the sky over Prestwick Golf Club as we turn off Links Road and into one…
Scotland will always be golf’s spiritual home but when you travel around Ireland, golf clubs on your back, it’s hard…
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.…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
Doonbeg is a study in contrasts: the rugged and quintessentially Irish beauty of the Clare coastline with the 2006 American-built…
The view from our balcony at the sumptuous Links House at Royal Dornoch is one you could never grow tired…
Even at first glance, it is obvious Lahinch is not just another seaside town. Golf is woven into the fabric…
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…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
The North Coast 500 explores some of the most beautiful wilderness on earth. The Wandering Golfers look at some of…
As I walk towards the 18th green at Royal St George’s Golf Club, through the funnel of Open Championship grandstands…
Laura Sayer-Hall, was looking for a way to make a big change to her 9-5 life. It began with a…
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…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
This global pandemic has been difficult enough for golf clubs which have been around for centuries. Imagine, then, trying to…
During its celebrated history, Moortown Golf Club has grown accustomed to hosting the greats of the game and providing the…
The North Coast 500 explores some of the most beautiful wilderness on earth. The Wandering Golfers look at some of…
There’s barely a cloud in the sky over Prestwick Golf Club as we turn off Links Road and into one of the game’s great cathedrals. The morning sunshine bathes the famous stone clubhouse in a golden glow and the white flags on the 14th and 18th greens, for once, hang limp in the…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
Ganton Golf Club is a truly extraordinary place. There is a stillness to it, a timeless elegance. It’s as if…
There is an inescapable sense of class about everything at Formby Golf Club. You feel it from the moment you…
Doonbeg is a study in contrasts: the rugged and quintessentially Irish beauty of the Clare coastline with the 2006 American-built…
It would be understandable if Dundonald Links felt just a little threatened by Ayrshire’s embarrassment of golfing riches. After all it sits within minutes of storied Open venues such as Royal Troon and Prestwick Golf Club. Another, Turnberry, is 30 minutes down the coast. Wonderful Western Gailes is within a wedge. Barassie, Glasgow…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
Very little about our world feels normal these days. Spending a few hours walking the fairways of your local golf…
Mythical Ballybunion in south-west Ireland is one of the world's great links courses. The Wandering Golfers travelled to County Kerry…
A day or two at The Machrie Hotel is all it takes to understand why so many who visit Islay…
A day or two at The Machrie Hotel is all it takes to understand why so many who visit Islay leave a piece of their heart behind. The idyllic isolation from the everyday would, on its own, be the perfect tonic to the bustle of modern life. But when you combine that with…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
Scotland will always be golf’s spiritual home but when you travel around Ireland, golf clubs on your back, it’s hard…
It’s not often golf can reach beyond the sport and capture the imagination of a new audience. The Ryder Cup,…
Despite its remote location, some 30 miles north of Inverness, Royal Dornoch has been an established fixture in the top…
There’s a rare sense of stillness and tranquillity as you walk Woodhall Spa’s iconic Hotchkin Course. This secluded, unassuming corner of Lincolnshire may be home to one of the best inland golf courses on the planet but there’s no fuss or fanfare here. The contrary is true, in fact. From the moment you…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
There’s barely a cloud in the sky over Prestwick Golf Club as we turn off Links Road and into one…
St Andrews and Chariots of Fire: the association immediately brings to mind the evocative opening moments of the celebrated Oscar-winning…
It’s early on a crisp spring morning and I’m sweeping my eyes across Mount Juliet golf course taking it all…
There’s no escaping that the Bracken Course at Woodhall Spa Golf Club is, like many other fabulous venues the world over, will always exist in the shadow of its more celebrated big brother. The New and The Old Course, St Andrews. The Cashen Course and The Old, Ballybunion. The Castle Course and The…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
Sean Connery stands in front of me having just emerged from his dressing room at Pinewood Studios after a heated…
It was an iconic image which travelled around the world: Bernhard Langer, with a shock of blonde hair, at Fulford…
Ganton Golf Club is a truly extraordinary place. There is a stillness to it, a timeless elegance. It’s as if…
As I walk towards the 18th green at Royal St George’s Golf Club, through the funnel of Open Championship grandstands either side of me, I allow myself a moment to take it all in. The magnificent lunar landscape of linksland here is exactly as I remember it. The vast dunes, verdant fairways and…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
Bobby Jones hit the nail on the head when he said of Sunningdale Old Course, “I wish I could take…
For golfers the world over, Royal Dornoch Golf Club represents a unique call to adventure. It’s a pilgrimage which requires commitment,…
Hidden away on the County Wicklow coast, just south of beautiful Brittas Bay, you’ll find a links course like no…
A par-3 opener: 200 yards, into the wind, eight bunkers around the green, Walter Hagen looking on. Ok, so I made that last bit up – sort of – but we’ll come back to Mr Hagen shortly. Southport & Ainsdale Golf Club is one of the jewels among the treasure trove of links…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
Lindrick Golf Club saved the Ryder Cup. By the time 1957 came around, the event was on its knees. The US…
Very little about our world feels normal these days. Spending a few hours walking the fairways of your local golf…
If Scotland is the home of golf, Ireland the luxury holiday villa you can’t wait to go back to, what…
Mythical Ballybunion in south-west Ireland is one of the world's great links courses. The Wandering Golfers travelled to County Kerry and discovered a place that would leave a lasting imprint and a golf course that was the stuff of dreams…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
It’s early on a crisp spring morning and I’m sweeping my eyes across Mount Juliet golf course taking it all…
It would be understandable if Dundonald Links felt just a little threatened by Ayrshire’s embarrassment of golfing riches. After all…
If Scotland is the home of golf, Ireland the luxury holiday villa you can’t wait to go back to, what…
Royal Portrush has the honour of being the only club outside mainland Britain to host the Open Championship. The Wandering Golfers went to Antrim to play it a matter of weeks before the 2019 edition came to town…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
Hidden away on the County Wicklow coast, just south of beautiful Brittas Bay, you’ll find a links course like no…
It’s not often golf can reach beyond the sport and capture the imagination of a new audience. The Ryder Cup,…
Despite its remote location, some 30 miles north of Inverness, Royal Dornoch has been an established fixture in the top…
Augusta National Golf Club is, unquestionably, unique. The vibrant natural beauty, the stunningly manicured fairways and greens, the magic and the mystique of Magnolia Lane. A tradition unlike any other, as the saying goes. And yet if you look just beneath the surface, it’s clear that deep within its DNA, the ancestry of…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
I had read and re-read what was in front of me four or five times before I could muster anything…
It was the music, that damn music that saunters into the living room each April, coercing me into four days…
Alwoodley Golf Club is a place where loyalty is par for the course. Ever since the great Dr Alister MacKenzie…
If Scotland is the home of golf, Ireland the luxury holiday villa you can’t wait to go back to, what of England? Scotland and Ireland are quite rightly lauded as mythical golf destinations the world over – St Andrews, Ballybunion, Royal Dornoch, Lahinch – the names trip off the tongue. But a new…
CLICK FOR MOREYou might be interested in
It’s early on another stunning summer morning. I’ve just finished a hotel breakfast overlooking the pitch at MK Dons, surrounded…
Like Rome, Sheffield is built on seven hills. High on one of them, on the cusp of the Peak District…
It’s no surprise to find the Scots have more than 100 words for rain – several sprang immediately to mind…