Carnoustie Golf Links: golf's fiercest examination They call it "Car-nasty", and one look at the closing holes tells you why. The Barry Burn coils across the fairways like a trap set centuries ago, the wind bites off the North Sea, and the great names of the game have...
Kingsbarns Golf Links: a modern links that plays like it always was Stand on the first tee at Kingsbarns and it is hard to believe the course is younger than most of the golfers on it. The North Sea crashes below, the fairways ripple away over three great plateaus,...
North Berwick Golf Club: the quirkiest great links of all Few opening tees frame a view like this one. Bass Rock rises black out of the Firth of Forth, the beach curls away beneath you, and the salt breeze carries four centuries of golf. The West Links at North...
Muirfield Golf Course: the fairest test in golf There is a reason players speak of Muirfield with something close to reverence. Stand on the links above the Firth of Forth, with the Fife coast shimmering across the water and the wind never quite still, and you sense...
Royal Dornoch Golf Club: golf at the edge of the Highlands Stand on the first tee at Royal Dornoch and the world falls quiet. The Dornoch Firth glints away to your right, gorse spills gold across the dunes in early summer, and the fairways run firm and fast toward the...
Turnberry Ailsa Course — links drama on the Ayrshire coastFew courses stir the soul like the Ailsa. Running along the rugged Ayrshire shore beneath its famous white lighthouse, with the volcanic hump of Ailsa Craig on the horizon and the Firth of Clyde crashing below,...
St Andrews Old Course — the Home of GolfNo course in the world carries the weight of the St Andrews Old Course. On this ancient links beside the North Sea, golf has been played since the 15th century, kings and caddies have walked the same turf, and the game's...