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Gleneagles

Gleneagles

Gleneagles wasn’t the first golf resort constructed during the early 20th century to take advantage of the railway – that distinction belonged to Turnberry – but the hotel built and opened by the Caledonian Railway Company in 1924 made no…

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Fairmont St Andrews

Fairmont St Andrews

There’s not a location in the golfing world that can rival St Andrews for sheer history and tradition. As early as 1835 Old Tom Morris was honing his skills on the hallowed links and selling golf clubs and feathery balls…

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Mar Hall

Mar Hall

The River Clyde runs through the heart of Glasgow, en-route to the Clyde Estuary, eventually turning south to become those broad expanses of water known as the Firth of Clyde and the Irish Sea.

From Glasgow, journeying first through suburbs,…

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Murrayshall House Hotel & Golf Courses

Murrayshall House Hotel & Golf Courses

Holidaying in the Home of Golf has to be high on everyone’s hit-list. The game’s superstar courses line up like celestial celebrities: St Andrews, Turnberry, Troon, Gleneagles… But for us ordinary, average-handicap club golfers not looking to spend a king’s…

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Dundonald Links

Dundonald Links

You don’t have to go far to find a completely contrasting clubhouse. But don’t make the mistake of going to Dundonald in the hope of finding Dundonald Links because it’s not there. However, it’s not all that far away and…

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Kilmarnock Barassie

Kilmarnock Barassie

Another Open qualifying venue with its fair share of gorse is Kilmarnock Barassie. On the other side of the county town of Ayr and among a clutch of historic courses, it has undergone a major makeover in recent times that,…

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Turnberry

Turnberry

With golf’s greatest event returning to Turnberry in July after a 15-year hiatus, the eyes of the golf world will again be focused on Ayrshire. South of Glasgow, and with a rugged coastline that often appears to be an unbroken…

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Machrihanish Dunes

Machrihanish Dunes

In Scotland, true links golf courses are not created, they are born of the land. More than 130 years ago "Old Tom" Morris recognised the potential for great golf here in this rugged, romantic corner of Scotland when he said,…

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Going for Golf Updates

The Spring issue of Going for Golf is available at golf clubs now