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Scotland’s Golf Coast includes fabulous links North Berwick, Dunbar, Gullane and, of course, Muirfield, the site of this summer’s Open Championship. In fact, there are so many outstanding local courses our editor is willing to forego — just this once — a visit to St. Andrews.
Scotland’s former Ryder Cup captain picks four outstanding but unjustly overlooked courses for you to discover during your next visit to the birthplace of golf.
How trouble with environmentalists and reluctant locals has slowed progress at Scotland’s Trump International Golf Links and Northern Ireland’s Bushmills Dunes Golf Resort.
What’s a golf trip without great food and drink? From fried bammy in Jamaica to a tall, cool mug of Bootlegger Brown Ale in Quebec, a few of my favourite after-golf nibbles and tipples.
Don your family tartan and answer the bagpipe’s call to the inaugural Scottish Clans Golf World Championships, hosted by two of the game’s most prestigious venues, Gleneagles and Carnoustie Golf Links, July 27 to Aug. 3, 2013.
The great Scottish golfer Sam Torrance says the birthplace of golf must keep building courses to stay ahead of old rival Ireland and emerging destinations such as Turkey and Bulgaria.
There are more than 70 million people with Irish ancestry. With McAuley as a surname, I’m one of them. And even though our last Irish family connection dates back to the 1840s, I’ve discovered that the allure and romance of the Old Country is surprisingly strong. Especially if you’re a golfer.
As much as tasty food and comfy beds, a key ingredient of a successful golf tour in a foreign land is a qualified driver who doubles as a convivial tourist guide. I’ve had the good fortune to meet several such godsends during my travels.
So thrilling was the 2012 Ryder Cup won by Rory McIlroy and company that it now seems almost unsporting that so few of us will ever get to follow in our heroes spike prints and play the host venue, Medinah Country Club, a members-only retreat in the Chicago suburbs. Contrast that to the 2010 Ryder [...]
Though he played other-worldly golf while winning back-to-back tournaments heading into the final FedEx Cup shootout in Atlanta, Rory McIlroy came up just a little flat on the weekend. But, then, so did Tiger Woods, who, according to no less an authority than Greg Norman, is “intimidated” by the 23-year-old from Northern Ireland. Like Woods before [...]
Donald Ross, legendary architect of Pinehurst No. 2.
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