Luxury Scotland comprises four of the world’s leading golf resorts including Gleneagles, Turnberry, St Andrews Old Course and Cameron House adjacent to Loch Lomond Golf Club.
This luxury collection also includes Inverlochy Castle recently voted to be the best hotel in Europe, six outstanding city centre properties including Prestonfield - the only hotel in Scotland’s capital to have been awarded 5 red stars from the AA and 5 gold stars from VisitScotland, a magnificent castle health spain the Scottish Borders, a range of delightful country house hotels, The Hebridean Princess - the finest hotel afloat and the ultimate luxury train, The Royal Scotsman. The restaurants of our hotels have been awarded no less than six Michelin stars.
For well over a century the dramas of many great championships have been played out in Scotland, from the Amateur and the Open to the Scottish national titles at so many levels and so many other major professional events as well. Inevitably it is the Open Championship that comes to mind when we talk of championship golf in Scotland. As well as our own 4 Golf Resorts with championship courses, Scotland has over 500 golf courses and offers the warmest of welcomes to come and enjoy some of the world's greatest links and parkland courses.
Ailsa Amber Ale is currently available in only one place in the world, and I’m lucky enough to be here--at the Turnberry Resort in southwest Scotland. The beer is named after the Ailsa golf course, easily among the world’s most enchanting as it plays along the Ayrshire coast. In most recent memorable memory, it was the scene of the 2009 Open Championship, when Tom Watson ...
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Having dissed Ireland, we’ll salve the Celtic soul at the venerable home of golf, St. Andrews. As for the beer, consider four words: college town, real ales. Scotland’s first university was founded here in 1413. With classes in session this compact seaside town’s population effectively doubles to 14,000, invigorating the many charming shops, ...
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Gil Hanse’s name rocketed near the top of the golf news world recently with two stunning announcements.
First, he bested seven other firms and was selected to design the golf course for the 2016 Olympics. Hanse will team with LPGA Hall of Famer Amy Alcott for the project.
From Hanse, I would expect nothing less than a very good golf course that is ...
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Jeff Ritter demonstrates simple tips for more power is this episode of The Golf Digest Clinic! For more information on coaching with Jeff, visit JeffRitterGolf.com
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The farther I can get from the obvious trophy courses when visiting Scotland, the more authentic my visits always prove to be (and the less likely it will take more than 3.5 hours to play). I hesitate to mention 120-year-old Brora Golf Club in northern Scotland, and only do so because you are unlikely to venture 52 miles north of Inverness, past Dornoch, to play a ...
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Rediscovering an Old Tom Morris Classic in Scotland's Outer Hebrides
We golf fanatics love to add trophey courses to our brag and bucket lists. And while the Old Course, Pebble Beach and Banff Springs are obvious contenders, I’ve started a new list—obscure courses that most people have not even heard of. And that is why I recently braved a narrow one-tract road about the width of ...
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“One Golfer At a Time” - The Old Course's Humble Swilcan Bridge
This short, sturdy little stone bridge might be overlooked anywhere else, but because it's at St. Andrews and the funnel which every golfing pilgrim or gladiator must pass, I call it “Golf’s Holiest Place.” It’s weather worn stones and gentle arch that were erected some 700-800 years ago (no one knows exactly when) ...
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Welcome to another installment of The Curmudgeon, the golf podcast here at halphillips.net. The Curmudgeon was created to, well, complain about those golfing pieties and sacred cows, which, while legion, no one else seems obliged to touch. In this edition, your host Hal Phillips speak with Spencer Robinson, longtime editor of Asian Golf Monthly magazine, about the paucity of links courses in Asia, which is ...
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The farther I can get from the obvious trophy courses when visiting Scotland, the more authentic my visits always prove to be (and the less likely it will take more than 3.5 hours to play). I hesitate to mention 120-year-old Brora Golf Club in northern Scotland, and only do so because you are unlikely to venture 52 miles north of Inverness, past Dornoch, to play a ...
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