From bubble wrap terrain to ocean side views, Murcar Links brings the challenge all gofers want and dangles the rewards all golfers need. Just 10 minutes from Aberdeen, Murcar was originally designed in 1909 by Archie Simpson, professional and keeper of the greens at neighbouring Royal Aberdeen with James Braid adding his Midas…
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The North Atlantic is as calm as a duckpond as I meander my way through the village streets en route to Castlerock…
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If there’s a better view from a 1st tee anywhere on earth, it will have to go some to top The Strand…
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As you walk off the last green of what is, to some, the oldest golf course in the world, it’s impossible to…
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The beauty of Dumbarnie Links speaks for itself on a morning like this. There’s barely a breath of wind as we look…
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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 I’m grasping…
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There can be few places to rival Prince’s Golf Club as a place to watch the sun rise on a day like…
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It’s early on a glorious July morning as I turn left through the gates of Hillside Golf Club. The place is abuzz…
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It was 3 in the morning and I was running towards the 1st tee of the Old Course, St Andrews. My alarm…
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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 to shake…
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Hidden away on the County Wicklow coast, just south of beautiful Brittas Bay, you’ll find a links course like no other. The…
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Rosslare Golf Links is bathed in sunshine as we walk up the final hole of a round that will live long in…
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The view from our balcony at the sumptuous Links House at Royal Dornoch is one you could never grow tired of. A…
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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…
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In my head the atmospheric Old Course was going to be lit up by autumnal sunshine, showing off the home of golf…
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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…
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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…
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There’s barely a cloud in the sky over Prestwick Golf Club as we turn off Links Road and into one of the…
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It would be understandable if Dundonald Links felt just a little threatened by Ayrshire’s embarrassment of golfing riches. After all it sits…
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A day or two at The Machrie Hotel is all it takes to understand why so many who visit Islay leave a…
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