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 …
The Open
Courses
Royal Birkdale: The Fairest Examination in Links Golf
In five weeks the Open Championship returns to Royal Birkdale, and the certainty worth holding onto amid all the build-up is this: whoever lifts the Claret Jug …
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 …