Orkney Golf Club – Scottish Islands Golf AGlow Amid Fields Of Heather.

If you’re not Scottish born but consider yourself a serious golfer, then you’ve no doubt visited the Home of Golf nation. And if you’ve played many of the Scottish golfing gems then you probably are keen to savour some other of the not so well-known Scottish golf courses. So, with this thought in mind can I recommend extending your next Scottish golfing adventure by heading to the top of the Scottish mainland, and then take the short 90-minute ferry trip to the stunning Orkney Islands. The ...

It’s Christmas Day, The Golf Club Is Closed But You Still Had To Wait Ages To Tee-Up

I was looking at some of the latest golf-related stories the other day when I came across this article: ‘Should You Play Golf on Christmas Day?” It quickly took me back decades when my brother, Steve and I used to play golf on Christmas Day, and in those years when we were first getting into the deep end in playing golf. We grew-up in the lower North Shore region of Sydney.  Our father, Terry, was the first in the family to play golf.  He joined the 9-hole Castlecove Country Club course, ...

Roganstown Hotel, Golf & Country Club – From A Family Farm To Irish Parkland Golfing Gem

Golf fans around the globe know that Ireland is famed for some of the best links courses on the planet. Courses such as Royal Portrush, Royal County Down, Castlerock, Portstewart, Rosapenna, Enniscrone, Donegal, Portsalon and Ballyliffin in the north and north-west to the likes of Waterville, Ballybunnion, Dooks and Tralee in the south-west where there right there on the virtual front doorstep of Dublin is the likes of Portmarnock, Royal Dublin, The Island and then my favourite a little to the south, ...

Whiting Bay Golf Club – Three Centuries Of Isle of Arran Golf

The late 1890s was a great time for the birth of golf on the Scotland island of Arran. Arran remarkably boasts six golf courses founded within 11 years of each other, and up to the dawn of the 20th century. They include – Lamlash (1889), the 9-hole Corrie (1892), Whiting Bay (1895), Shiskine (1896), Brodick (1897) and the 9-hole Machrie Bay (1900). Six years later in 1906 the six clubs got together to form the Arran Golfers Association. Our first introduction to golf in Arran was visiting The ...

Corrie Golf Club & The Corrie Hotel On The Isle Of Arran

On a first visit to the isle of Arran we stopped for a short visit to the Corrie Golf Club in the village of Corrie. The golf club was founded in 1892 and in a par-31, nine-hole layout of just over 1,900 yards. Corrie is a wonderful little village, located some 6 miles (10 kilometres) north of Brodick and about the same distance from Lochranza in the south. The village used to be a regular stop for steamers circumnavigating the island of Arran. Our visit also involved a bit of circumnavigation of ...

Barra Island Golf Club – A Second Visit Was Truly Double The Pleasure

It was 2012 when I first visited the remote Isle of Barra golf course in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Since then I’ve been fortunate enough to return to the islands in 2015, 2016, 2019 and last year in August 2022, and when making a third visit to Barra. Five visits .. Now is that not a strong recommendation? The Isle of Barra course lays claim to the most westerly golf course in the UK.  You can’t go any further west or you would arrive on the shores of Canada. The golf course is ...

Old Course St. Andrews – Great Offer To Play It In ‘Reverse’

Golfers are being given the unique opportunity to take a step back in time to play the famous Old Course in reverse, with a new series of events introduced by St Andrews Links Trust. Old Course Reversed has been unveiled by the Trust to commemorate 50 years of the organisation being custodians of the world’s most renowned golfing landscape and is set to become an annual event to give golfers a glimpse of the Old Course’s storied past. From the 1400s the Old Course emerged and evolved from the ...