I wanted to love the Old Course. I tried to love the Old Course. I failed to love the Old Course. I feel like I’m in good company: five-time Open champion Tom Watson didn’t love the Old Course, St Andrews when he first played it. Grand Slam winner Bobby Jones was a petulant…
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For a for few years, Te Arai Links felt like a myth. Its ultra-exclusive and highly-acclaimed sister property, Tara Iti, had captured…
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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 for the…
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As the Craigewan Links at Peterhead Golf Club comes into sight, so too does the path to reach it. There aren’t…
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From bubble wrap terrain to ocean side views, Murcar Links brings the challenge all gofers want and dangles the rewards all golfers…
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Castlerock Golf Club is yet another unmissable stop on Northern Ireland’s spectacular Causeway Coast. To the west are the rolling hills of…
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If there’s a better view from a 1st tee, it will have to go some to top The Strand at Portstewart Golf…
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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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From the moment you enter The Lodge at Prince’s Golf Club it’s clear you’re following in the footsteps of champions. A photograph…
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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 Brittas Bay, you’ll The European Club – a links like no other. …
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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…
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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…
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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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