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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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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