Dundonald Links

We offer you the fabulous Dundonald Links for the opening competition for this west coast Golf Duel. Dundonald Links is a fairly new addition to the area, established by the owners of Loch Lomond Golf Club to provide their members with the Links experience in 2004. It has impressive length for a west coast links course at 7,300 yards and is a true test of golf. Its reputation is such that it hosted the Scottish Open in 2017 and the natural amphitheatre of its design and slopes made it a superb venue to watch and admire the world’s top golfers.

Western Gailes

Western Gailes is a lovely golf course along a track of land that incorporates numerous exceptional clubs. Harry Vardon played here in a competition just after he won the Open at nearby Prestwick and the popularity of the course grew from there. The course is protected on the sea side by some impressive sand dunes and has fantastic views over to Arran and Ailsa Craig. The course has hosted the British Seniors Open and the Boys Amateur championship and is a regular Open qualifying course.

Royal Troon

In 1896 the British Golf Links Annual wrote: “For the jaded professional man after his work at the bar or in chambers or the busy merchant after his labours in the Countinghouse, there is no better restorative than a rest at Troon on its breezy links.” There is an incredibly impressive list of Open Championship winners at Royal Troon including Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, Bobby Locke, Arnold Palmer, Tom Weiskopf and not forgetting Mark Calcavecchia’s chip at the 12th in 1989 and more recently Justin Leonard and Henrik Stenson.

There are so many highlights on this course including it having both the longest and the shortest holes on the Open’s roster but we all went to take our wedge out and flick it on to the green on the 8th, The Postage Stamp, but more likely end up in the coffin bunker and we all really want to stand on the tee on the 11th, The Railway with a huge carry and the terror of the out of bounds all down the right hand side.

Turnberry Ailsa

As you drive south down the A77 towards Girvan, the majesty of Ailsa Craig comes in to view, it’s a familiar sight to many golfers and you know when you see it on the horizon that there’s a special place just at the bottom of the hill, as you turn right on to the Maidens road the majesty of the Turnberry hotel sits on your right and in the distance you see the lighthouse and the Isle of Arran. This is truly a place where dreams come true. There is so much history to Turnberry from its inception to its role in both the world wars as a military airfield and hospital. It is also the inspiration for Golf Duel, the summer of ’77 and the Duel in the Sun between Nicklaus and Watson, if there’s one thing we would really love to replicate for you it’s that very special day, the sun in your face, the wind at your back and your game going all the way to the 18th! Walk in the footsteps of those two giants of the game and I am sure you will reminisce about the other stars of our game who have battled and won on this epic golf course, Greg Norman, Nick Price and Stewart Cink.