Take a Trip to the Home of Golf

Category: Tourism

This is where it all began. Saint Andrews is the birthplace of golf, and you can enjoy the course and experience the rich culture of the land by staying in a luxury hotel in Scotland overlooking the plush fairways of the Old Course. The luxury hotel here is just a short walk from the historic town and has a panoramic view of the golf course as well as the rugged coast line.

The old course at Saint Andrews has hosted a number of British Opens that have been won by golfing greats like Tiger Woods andJack Nicklaus. Jacksays there is no other golf course like it, and Tiger says it is his favorite course to play in the world. You, too, will love this trip back in a time to a course that runs along the ocean.

There are a dozen historic courses in and around Saint Andrews that you can play during your visit. There are also a number of other top luxury hotelsto choose from in the region, including the Gleneagles Hotel and Glenapp Castle. These luxurious locations pamper guests and attend to their every need. From your window at Glenapp Castle you can look out onto their lush gardens and the Irish Sea. At Gleneagles Hotel, you will find three more championship golf courses, including the one that will be hosting the Ryder Cup in 2014, the PGA Centenary Course.

You will not be disappointed in choosing any one of these locations for your visit to Scotland. Each has a charm all of its own, but they share the deep history of the region. Even if you are not a golfer, Saint Andrews still offers so much to see and do. There are beautiful gardens and historic churches and museums to tour. Most of the luxury hotels also offer day spas where a wife can be pampered while her husband is out on the links.

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If you’re Going to Scotland you Have to go Golfing

Category: Travel, Trips

You’ve made the decision to go to Scotland, now you need to start filling up that itinerary with things to do. If there is one thing you need to do while you’re in Scotland, you need to golf.
Scotland is essentially considered the birthplace of golf. Even the casual golf fan has probably seen St. Andrews golf course featured during a glimpse of the British Open. This classic links course is considered one of the most difficult in the world with its tall grass, deep sand traps and windy and wet conditions. If it looks hard on television, in person it is going to reach out and grab you like no other course ever has.
Like most things on your vacation, you’re going to want to plan ahead and do some research before you ever set foot into Scotland. A website like golfscotland.com can give you an idea of availability of courses, tee times, prices and other options should price factor into your decision of where to play.
Some people even plan their entire vacations around the golf aspect of Scotland. Golf tours that take you to different courses are available, but you need to plan ahead and check prices and availability.
There are a number of courses scattered around Scotland including Aberdeen Golf Course, Carnoustie Golf Course, Cruden Bay Golf Course, Dornoch Golf Course, Edinburgh Golf Course, Gleneagles Golf Course, Inverness Golf Course, Nairn Golf Course, North Berwick Golf Course, St. Andrews, Troon Golf Course, Turnberry Golf Course and the Western Isles course.
Carnoustie, St. Andrews and Turnberry are three of the most famous, and have been used to play the British Open.
Bring your clubs and bring plenty of cold and wet weather gear. Scotland golf is famous for it’s strong winds and rain coming in from the seas. Scotland golf will be the vacation of a lifetime.

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Golf Where You’re Meant to Golf – Scotland

Category: Adventure, Travel
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Golf is one of the oldest ‘stick and ball’ games still practiced today. It has become an international enterprise, with its own stars, politics, sponsors, and intrigue, yet if you set all of the pastel polos and pleated khakis aside, you’re still left with the stick and ball. The sport, as we’ve come to know it, with pars, birdies, greens, and eighteen-hole courses originated some time in 13th century Scotland, though its first documented mention didn’t come about until the mid-15th century, when King James II of Scotland passed an act in parliament prohibiting the practice of ‘gowf’ and football, as they distracted from military archery practice.
So even since the Medieval Ages, golf has served to healthfully distract and preoccupy the layman and the professional alike. Nowadays, courses are obsessively groomed and trimmed, and you can find luxury courses on every continent of the world. But the true golfer – the most dedicated – hasn’t played golf until he or she has played on the greens of Scotland.
The word ‘golf’ likewise finds its roots in old language. Often spelled by the Scots as goulf, gouf, gowf, and other variants, the verb itself means ‘to strike.’ Alternately, the word is also similar to the Dutch ‘kolf,’ which suggests a type of bat. Either way, it was the Scots who popularized the game.
In Scotland you will find some of the oldest, most beautiful, and in some cases, the most challenging courses in the world. Aberdeen, in North-East Scotland, has over fifty different clubs in the region, from the Aboyne Golf Club, with its swooping parkland for the front nine and a hilly heathland back nine, to the exceptionally challenging and respectable Royal Aberdeen Golf Club, which was founded in 1780.
The golf clubs of Scotland not only offer beautiful and challenging courses to the touring golfer, but they also showcase the long-reaching history of the sport. Every good golfer has to make it to Scotland, if only to experience the courses for him or herself.
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