Courses
Royal Troon: A Gentle Out, a Brutal Home
Royal Troon sits on the Ayrshire coast looking out across the Firth of Clyde to the hump of Ailsa Craig, and on a still summer morning it can fool a visitor …
Scotland
Courses
Carnoustie: The Course That Earns Its Nickname
There is a reason the players call it Carnasty, and it is not affection. Carnoustie sits on a flat, exposed strip of the Angus coast north of the Tay, and on …
Courses
Muirfield: The Course That Asks for Every Wind
The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, which is the formal name of the members’ club that has owned the course at Muirfield since the late …
Courses
The Old Course at St Andrews: Golf's Most Important Eighteen Holes
There is no course in the world that divides opinion on first sight quite like the Old Course at St Andrews. Players who arrive expecting the manicured …