Caddie Golf Tours

On completing my golf today on the Strathtyrum Course at St Andrews I finished the round with 2 golf tees and, on inspection, a rather odd collection of golf balls, none of which were in pristine condition. It was time to get my light pencil golf bag into the house and empty all 3 pockets(!) of the accumulated rubbish, old golf balls, some used camera batteries, and chewing gum that I have no idea how long it has been in the bag. The old golf balls have been removed and dropped into the 'shag bag' for practice and replaced with a dozen new Titleist with the Boyne mark of 2 red & 2 blue dots. The tee bag has been filled, pencil sharpened, ball markers and divot tool placed into the side pocket. Winter golf at St Andrews is over. The golf bag has been given its Spring clean and I am ready for a grand 2016 golf season on the legendary Old Course St Andrews...Fore!

The 2016 Old Course Caddies Professional Course Guide has been collated by our good friend and St Andrews Caddie David Coyne with the assistance of legendary St Andrews golf historian, artist, and actor David Joy. These great little Old Course books are used by the St Andrews caddies to assist guiding their man around the links and the good caddies will study them for run outs to rough, distances to bunkers, danger areas from the tees and the safe areas of the course for their golfer. They are an invaluable resource for the caddie/golfer and a super little gift to plan and play out your round to come or just golfed. The Old Course Caddie Course Guides are now available from local St Andrews golf shops, Guest Houses and unsurprisingly quite a few of the local pubs like the Dunvegan Bar and 1 Golf Place both located 120 yards from the Old Course 18th green.

Golf in Scotland is not all about our grand Championship courses like the Old Course St Andrews, Carnoustie, Muirfield or 2016 Open venue at Royal Troon. There is so much more to explore for the visiting golfer and a recent trip Caddie Golf Tours made to the Isle of Arran, just off the west coast of Scotland, produced a fun golf trip that will live long in the memory. A short 45 minute car journey from Glasgow to the ferry port of Ardrossan, just north of Troon, and we sail across to the Isle of Arran on a Caledonian MacBrayne Ferry . 60 minutes later and we are driving to the wee 9 hole course at Machrie Bay , on the west side of the island, for a fun round of golf before we meet our fellow golfers at the wonderful GlenIsle Hotel in the village of Lamlash. This is the annual Autumn Oystercatchers Golf Meeting we organize and participate in with our two close golfing couples twice a year, Spring & Autumn, at great golf venues across Scotland. The Isle of Arr...