Murcar Links Golf Club: spectacular links delivers challenge and reward
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 touch in the 1930’s. A strong combination of clever and thought provoking design for this Championship golf course, where the East Coast of Scotland meets the North Sea. Testimony to such a strong design is the course has changed little since conception. Murcar started life with some…
East Lothian Golf: Scotland’s golf coast will capture your imagination
We all book our golf trips for different reasons. Maybe it’s an annual ritual with family and friends? A weekend getaway with a spouse? Or a jammed packed once-in-a-lifetime bucket list adventure. Who you’re going with is just one consideration, of course; the other big one is where you are going. The sheer enormity of options available to you when you are heading to the UK or Ireland can be overwhelming. Do you go to North or South Ayrshire? Can you squeeze in both? What about Dornoch and The Highlands, can you play the best golf courses on the NC500?…
Manchester Golf Club: natural wonder within sight of the city
You might think the sight of a deer scampering down the 5th fairway at Manchester Golf Club would be a surprise given we’re within sight of the city centre. And yet amid the natural splendour all around us, we barely pay it a second glance: it’s very much at home – as are we. Manchester Golf Club sits on 247 acres of heathland and moorland on the sprawling Hopwood Park Estate to the north east of the city. Wildlife is abundant with deer, rabbits, hares and a myriad of birdlife on show around this vast Harry Colt layout. The course…
Things to do Belfast: the ultimate city getaway
Gone are the days when people travel to Belfast to see a city emerging from a turbulent past. Impressions of once-abandoned industrial sites have long since been replaced by this vibrant, pulsating, modern metropolis which is clearly packed with visitors from every corner of the world as we walk the streets here. Belfast will never escape its recent history, of course, nor does it wish to but this is a city embracing all the ingredients that make it what it is, a place rich in heritage, alive with incredible cultural offerings, and bursting with new hip food and drink offerings…