Great Golf Courses, Great Golf Holes
In researching and writing 18 Greatest Scottish Golf Holes I quickly learned that even great courses, the greatest courses even, can never number 18 perfect holes. Sometimes a surprising course will sport the perfect hole. But you won’t know it till you find yourself in its all consuming fairway bunker or looking backwards in wonder from its green. Like lightning you won’t know till it strikes. This is how it is for many when they play The Machrie or Shiskine or Southerness, say: lesser – but no less lovely – courses. In other words almost all Scottish golf courses have elements of magic about them, a certain charm or perhaps, for the overseas visitor, a certain inscrutability: a blind shot, a cavernous hazard or an ancient stone wall ...
The perfect golf trip to Scotland will take in some of the country’s most celebrated courses, but perhaps one or two less famous clubs as well.
You can see the list of 18 Greatest Scottish Golf Holes at www.18greatestgolf.com
