Golf Courses - West Coast

One of golf’s earliest resort destinations, Turnberry’s origins date back to 1901 when the Marquess of Ailsa commissioned Willie Fernie from Royal Troon to lay out a course beside the spectacular W...

‘Specifically designed by The Almighty for playing golf’ Old Tom Morris on the linksland at Machrihanish

Situated at the southern tip of Scotland’s romantic Kintyre Peninsula, the Machrihanis...

‘A man is less likely to be contradicted in lauding Prestwick than singing the praises of any other course in Christendom’ Bernard Darwin

Birthplace of the Open Championship, the historic Pre...

The Royal Troon Golf Club was formed in 1878 on a five-hole links created by the head greenkeeper at the neighboring Prestwick Golf Club. This initial layout was extended to eighteen holes within a...

Askernish Golf Club is home to “the most natural golf course in the world” (2011 visitor) and has been ranked 86 in GB&I's Top 100 Links Courses 2015.

The course and club has a long and alm...

Built between Irvine Bay and the railway on Ayrshire's celebrated western coastline, Western Gailes is a charming old links first laid out by greenkeeper Fred Morris in 1898. It's a classic out and...

‘I consider Loch Lomond my lasting memorial to golf.’ Tom Weiskopf

Set along the bonnie banks of the magnificent Loch Lomond and enjoying startling vistas across its glassy waters to the surr...

One of modern golf’s most natural courses, Machrihanish Dunes was the first built anywhere in Europe on a site of Specific Scientific Interest (SSSI). This SSSI designation prevented large-scale ea...

‘The best ground for a golf course that I have ever had the pleasure of viewing.’ Willie Campbell, 1891

The Machrie Golf Links on the island of Islay was first designed by Willie ...

Rarely in golf do the associates of leading signature design companies get their due credit. Rarer still, do they break away from the comfort of a large, busy firm and establish solo car...