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 ...
Where Is The World’s Oldest Built Golf Clubhouse? France’s Golf du Prieure Boasting Building Built Between 1170 – 1180
There will always be talk of the true origins of golf and, of course, what is the oldest golf club in existence.
My own golf club – Crail Golfing Society – was instituted in 1786 when 11 local gentlemen “fond of the diversion of golf” founded the club in gathering within the walls of the aptly named ‘Golf Hotel’, in the closeby village of Crail while the club still has in its possessions the minutes from that first meeting and every meeting since.
However, a late ...
Doha Golf Club’s Academy Course – Best Fun 8 1/2 Holes On The DP World Tour
If you’re read my articles on the ‘Course Features’ section on this website you may gather many of the stories have been researched and posted following visits to golf courses made during the course of reporting on events while on the various Tours.
Whether it be on the PGA Tour, the Asian Tour, the Australasian Tour or the DP World Tour there’s always been a welcome door open for the visiting media to play a local golf course.
And there can better course to tackle than visiting ...
Smith Turns Up The Heat Being Back In Britain To Lead LIV London
Open Champion Cam Smith not only warmed to the heatwave conditions but he turned-up the heat also being back teeing-up in Britain for a first time since last year’s historic triumph at St. Andrews.
Smith tops the LIV London leaderboard, producing a sizzling display with the putter in posting a bogey-free eight-under 63.
“Wasn’t much bad stuff in there, to be honest,” said Smith.
“I feel like I’ve been on this kind of trend for a few months now.”
Fellow Aussie and Crushers team-mate ...
