Courses and Travel

A Mad Day on the Mighty Ailsa

David DeSmith

If you haven’t played The Ailsa Course at Turnberry, you’ve wanted to.  If you have played it, you’ve wanted to... Read more »

A Royal Welcome

David DeSmith

How do you win the hearts of the citizens of a proud Scottish town?  Take a derelict landmark hotel, spend... Read more »

Road Warrior Pampering

Anita Draycott

We Road Warriors have a hectic schedule. However, in the interests of research, I managed to squeeze in a session... Read more »

Machrihanish Dunes: The Way Golf Began and Should be Going

Anita Draycott

True links aficionados put the venerable Old Tom Morris-designed Machrihanish Golf Club on their list of places to play before... Read more »

Day 3: Golf Does Good in Kintyre

James A. Frank

By opening Machrinhanish Dunes, Southworth Development, an American company, did more than just give the world a terrific new links... Read more »

Oak Point an Overlooked Gem on Kiawah Island

John Torsiello

I’m going to tell you about an overlooked little gem of a golf course in the Charleston, S.C. area, Oak Point... Read more »

The New Center of the Links Golf World

David DeSmith

It wasn’t that long ago that Machrihanish was considered the end of road – if not the end of the... Read more »

Machrihanish Dunes Offers Golf The Way It Began

David DeSmith

In 1879, Old Tom Morris traveled all the way across Scotland from St. Andrews, down the Mull of Kintyre, to... Read more »

Au Naturale, Golf The Way It Should Be

James Mason

There are something’s in life that you just have to do before you finally get to the great clubhouse in... Read more »

The Cottage Life, Machrihanish Style

David DeSmith

When it comes to pampering visiting golfers like our Golf Road Warriors Scotland group,, the people at The Village at... Read more »

What’s a Ugadale?

David DeSmith

The word “Ugadale” in ancient Gaelic means: Place Where Overprivileged Writers Come to be Treated Like Lairds of the Land.” ... Read more »

Nae Wind, Nae Golf

David DeSmith

When you have to park your stand bag up that it’s facing into the wind in order to keep it... Read more »

Day 2: The Long and Windy Road

James A. Frank

Beatles fans might remember that the real “long and winding road” is a motorway—the A83—that runs the length of the... Read more »

A Few Drams in Campbeltown

Anita Draycott

Even Ken Campbell, the PGA Golf Professional at the Machrihanish Golf Club, admitted that there was quite a strong “breeze”... Read more »

Life Is All About Balance!

James Mason

Have you ever stepped onto the tee and worried if you were going to manage to stay on your feet... Read more »