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Famous Scottish Golf Courses
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Famous Scottish Golf Courses and Scottish Golf Clubs
Planning a Golf Break in 2010?
Then look no further than Scotland - the Home of Golf
In 2009 Scotland confirmed its No. 1 status as the home of Golf by taking the top prize of ‘Destination of the Year’ in the annual industry awards held by Britain’s best-selling magazine Today’s Golfer beating the Algarve (Portugal) into second place and Ireland into third. With over 550 golf courses across the country, Scotland has courses to suit all types of player from championship layouts to links courses, beautiful parklands and memorable hidden gems. Accommodation ranges from cosy family-run B&Bs to luxury 5* hotel resorts offering a number of accommodation deals and golf packages to ensure all budgets are catered for.
Check out some other famous Scottish courses including St Andrews, Carnoustie and Gleneagles. Why not make your golf holiday base around Loch Lomond and then visit some of the other famous Scottish golf courses?
Golf Holidays and Golf Breaks at Loch Lomond, Scotland.
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| The Westin Turnberry Resort
, Ayrshire, Tel: +44 (0) 1655 331000, Fax: +44 (0) 1655 331706 |
| For countless thousands of players the world over, Turnberry is simply the finest golfing destination of all.
The scene of some of the most remarkable moments in Open history, the legendary Ailsa is complemented by the dynamic challenges of the new Kintyre championship course.
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| Royal Troon Golf Club
, Craigend Road, Troon, Tel: +44 (0) 1292 311555, Professional: +44 (0) 1292 313281, Fax: +44 (0) 1292 318204 |
| Founded in 1878 by a few enthusiasts Troon Golf Club soon outgrew its purely local reputation. The Old Course today presents a stern golfing examination and in particular the inward half of Royal Troon is widely accepted as the most demanding of any Course on the Championship rota. |
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| St Andrews Links Trust
, Reservations Office, Pilmour House, St Andrews, Tel: +44 (0) 1334 466666, Fax: +44 (0) 1334 477036 |
Old Course Par 72, 6566 yards
The Home of Golf and venue for the Open Championship 27 times, the Old Course attracts thousands of golfers from around the world every year.
New Course Par 71, 6604 yards
Opened in 1895 and laid out by Tom Morris, it is considered by many as one of the best courses on the links. |
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| Royal Dornoch Golf Club
, Golf Road, Dornoch, Sutherland, Tel: +44 (0) 1862 810219, Fax: +44 (0) 1862 810792 |
| Regularly rated in the worlds top twenty, we are frequently complimented by leading tour professionals. Another compliment we value highly is that visiting golfers regularly return to take up the ever varying challenge of our links. While it is a matter of pride to be able to say one has played a number of the worlds best courses, once a golfer has played a few, the fact that he wants to come back to Royal Dornoch underlines how special are our links. |
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| Carnoustie Golf Links
, Links Parade, Carnoustie, Tel: +44 (0) 1241 853789, Fax: +44 (0) 1241 852720 |
| The game of golf has been played at Carnoustie since before Columbus discovered America, making it one of the oldest courses in the world. The links have been played over the years by all the golfing greats and have acquired a deserved reputation as a demanding test of golfing ability. These facts alone, however, are but a small measure of the contribution Carnoustie has made to the history and development of golf today. |
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| Glasgow Gailes Links
, Gailes, Irvine, Ayrshire, Tel: +44 (0) 1294 311258, Fax: +44 (0) 1294 279366 |
| Glasgow Gailes Links is owned and managed by Glasgow Golf Club, the ninth oldest golf club in the world. Visitors are welcome to share the golfing traditions and excellent facilities enjoyed by the members. Less than an hour from Glasgow, Gailes is a challenging links course - tough and traditionally Scottish - consistently selected by the R&A as a final qualifying venue for the Open Championship. |
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| Gleneagles Hotel
, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Freephone: 0800 389 3737 (UK only), Toll-free: 1-866 881 9525 (USA only) |
For those who are addicted to the game of golf, Gleneagles offers the chance to play on the worlds finest courses.
As well as the challenge of the Kings, the secluded charms of the Queens, or the nine hole Wee Course, there is now the exceptional PGA Centenary Course designed by Jack Nicklaus. This plays between 5,072 and 7,088 yards, due to five optional tees at each hole and is a course of baffling ingenuity.
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| Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers
, Muirfield, Gullane, Phone: +44 (0) 1620 842123, Fax: +44 (0) 1620 842977 |
Par 70, 6601 yards
The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers is the oldest club in the world, with continuous records from 1744. They began on Leith Links, in Edinburgh, moved out to Musselburgh when the links became too congested, and then to their present home at Muirfield. Muirfield is the location of James Baird's and Harry Vardon's first Open wins, Jack Nicklaus's first in 1966 and Trevino's mauling of Jacklin in 1972, and home to two of Faldo's Open triumphs. Muirfield is considered hallowed ground, being one of the earliest courses in the world to use the design concepts of two loops of nine running contrary to each other. |
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