An early tee time today (7:44) for our round at the St. Andrews ‘Jubilee Course’. Jimmy, our host at the hotel, has packed us a sack breakfast and we walked…
An early tee time today (7:44) for our round at the St. Andrews ‘Jubilee Course’. Jimmy, our host at the hotel, has packed us a sack breakfast and we walked…
No golf today – probably a good thing as we head into the final stretch. A short drive from Stonehaven is Dunnottar Castle, a ruined medieval fortress located on a…
We spent the evening in the Kilmarnock Arms hotel in Cruden. Very interesting place where Gram Stoker holidayed and was inspired to create his classic novel ‘Dracula’ after viewing the…
Royal Dornoch! Originally designed by ‘Old Tom Morris’ in 1891 and reworked by Donald Ross in 1901, Dornoch is consistently ranked in the top 10 in the world and either…
Golf today was at the Tain Golf Club some nine miles south of Dornoch. Tain was founded in 1890 and designed by Old Tom Morris. It’s an interesting and challenging…
We have a new driver today, Tony, a retired Limey and friend of Iains. It took a while to break the ice, but he turns out to be a…
No golf today. We arranged for our driver, Iain McLeod, to give us a tour of the eastern Highlands. Iain owns a small fleet of vans for charters and is…
Today’s play was at ‘Castle Stuart’ just outside of Inverness. The course is a relatively new links style, but already a classic. The fairways afford panoramic views of…
The Nairn Championship course is a 20-minute walk from our hotel in the village so no need for a driver today. Nairn is a Tom Morris and James Braid design…
In preparation for our trip, each of the group researched techniques for playing on links-style courses – how to handle the wind, gorse, and the fearsome pot bunkers which are…