Luxury Golf Tours To Scotland - The Source & Soul of Golf

Scotland remains, as ever, the source and the soul of the game of golf. A visit is equal parts history lesson and golf adventure. The history is powerful, and pervasive, and provided in what amounts to a continuous museum quality experience. The joy of course is that this museum is entirely and uniquely interactive. When your name is called to the first tee at the Old Course - where the likes of Morris, Braid, Jones, Palmer, Nicklaus and Woods have teed it too - your knees will know it. It's more of the same when you survey The Postage Stamp, and when you turn into the wind at Hogan's Alley. The Scots offer an inordinate number of the world's most cherished golf courses and everybody is invited to play.

Even better, Scottish golf is beautifully convenient. The clubs are clustered for the most part, often allowing you to select a single hotel from which to operate. On the west, Ayrshire Coast, you'll find Turnberry with her Ailsa and Kintyre Courses, Royal Troon, Western Gailes, Glasgow Gailes, Dundonald, and a throw back among the throw backs – Prestwick. Then, for those with steely determination and the deepest sense of appreciation for the experience of links golf, there is The Machrie and Machrihanish. Both are magnificent and elusive. A visit to their remote locales, the southern tip of The Mull of Kintyre and the Isle of Islay, promises to distinguish the career of any traveling golfer.

On the east coast, St. Andrews is flush with seven courses of its own as part of the Links Trust, plus neighboring Kingsbarns, Crail, and St. Andrews Bay with The Devlin and Torrance courses. Slightly north, a collection featuring Carnoustie also includes Panmure, Montrose and Monifieth. An hour west is renowned Gleneagles, one of the world’s most respected hotels and home to some of James Braid’s and Jack Nicklaus’ finest work.

The Scottish Highlands are highlighted by world #15, Royal Dornoch, whose plateau greens are a feature that Donald Ross took from his home course and used on many of his classic designs. Nairn, Nairn Dunbar, Brora, Moray and Tain are longstanding favorites of northern visitors who are also certain to enjoy Royal Aberdeen and world #78, Cruden Bay on the way up or back.

Less than two hours south of St. Andrews, is East Lothian, where you will find yet another assortment of clubs representing the essence of links golf. Gullane’s three courses, North Berwick, Dunbar, and Cragielaw are situated in succession along the coast east of Edinburgh each with histories reaching back to the roots of the game.

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