Review: Crail, Balcomie Links, Crail, Scotland: One of the world’s oldest golf courses, Crail is sublime, strange, wonderful, whimsical and weird — all at the same time. It is also one of the truly great golf experiences to be...
Category - Golf Course Reviews – Scotland
How can you truly review one of the wonders of the golf world? That’s the issue when it comes to North Berwick’s West Links, undoubtedly one of the world’s great golf experiences. Quirky? Yes. Remarkable? Surely. The first...
More Muirfield: #8 — Here’s an example of one of the great par fours in golf, Muirfield’s eighth hole. Notice the terrific bunkers down the right side. The left is braced by long fescue. The green is also a wonder to behold...
More Muirfield: On a relatively gloomy day, my brother, Chris (pictured here trudging up the 16th hole) had a wonderful lunch and played some damned fine golf in spots. The greatness in Muirfield is not hard to see the first time around, but it...
An incredible shot for an incredible day: Here’s the fourth at Crail, about 20 minutes drive from St. Andrews in Scotland. This is a big hole — 460 yards from the tips. While it is finally warming up in Toronto, this shot reminds me...
Here my brother and my good friend Steve stand in the Shell bunker to demonstrate just how massive it is. Thankfully no one managed to land their ball in it. The green is a few paces beyond.
More Bunkers at the Old Course — an example of the massive bunkers at the Old Course which are getting a facelift. The next shot will put the size of this one, found on the 7th hole (High), in perspective.
Photo for a Monday night: An amazing day at North Berwick. Here’s the famed short four with the wall in front of the green. The first time I played this, I tried to drive the green downwind, only to rattle off the wall. The second time I...
Another example of the fine dunes at Royal Montrose, with my friend Steve standing in the background.