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View from Marine Hotel across North Berwick West Links.  Our three golfing couples, collectively known as The Oystercatchers, took advantage of the mild February weather here in Scotland and golfed in North Berwick last weekend at  The Glen GC and the famous West Links with an overnight stay at MacDonald Marine Hotel. x2 rounds Scottish links golf x1 night 4 Star Marine Hotel 3 course Dinner at Craigleith Restaurant Full range of Breakfast choices Swimming pool, gym, Sauna and Steam Rooms Cost £320 = $400 per couple The lovely town of North Berwick, only 25 minutes south of Edinburgh, has long been used as a base to enjoy the golf in the town and around the area: Muirfield, Gullane and Dunbar golf courses are all within 20 minutes drive of the town. 'Sea' par 3 13th green The Glen GC. The prizes being played for were Best Female Golfer, Best Male Golfer, and Champion Couple using the Stableford points system. The obligatory longest drive and...

A wonderful selection of tournament golf is anticipated throughout 2015 when the best male and female, professional and amateur golfers descend upon Scotland, the Home of Golf. After last year's Ryder Cup at Gleneagles this is setting up to be another year for Scotland to show off our golf courses that are available for all to play. The Amateur Championship 15th - 20th June, Carnoustie Championship Course Approach to Carnoustie 18th green 

A list is a list and it will tend to be subjective and that is surely the case when compiling the World’s Top 100 golf courses as Golf Digest did recently. But it was rather gratifying for we golfers in Scotland to see that fourteen of our greatest golf courses were named on it and all but one of them can be accessed without resorting to a member taking you out for a game of golf (Loch Lomond). Royal Dornoch GC Your golf party could easily be playing on one of the following courses anointed by Golf Digest, not forgetting to include a few of the other classic courses from the +500 dotted around our wee country. Here are the Scottish golf links and their positions on Golf Digest's World's 100 Greatest Courses : 6. Royal Dornoch GC 7. Old Course St. Andrews 8. Muirfield 19. Turnberry Ailsa Course 31. Carnoustie Championship 50. Kingsbarns Golf Links 56. Trump International Links Trump International Golf Links 57. Machrihanish GC 65. North Berw...

As we leave the month September and enter October many golfers will be turning their attention to a golf tour of Scotland next year, 2014. We here at Caddie Golf Tours are available to set up and advise about securing tee times, accommodation and travel arrangements throughout the Home of Golf, for real golfers. Old Course St. Andrews Many Scottish golf tours are built around acquiring an Old Course tee time and Caddie Golf Tours can assist your golf group in attaining this goal by you, the 'Lead Golfer', forwarding a few details of the proposed golf trip: number and names of golfers taking part handicaps of golfers golf club membership of each golfer preferred date of golf tour & an alternative date other courses to be played during the golf tour  Par 3 15th at Kingsbarns 'Rocky Ness' These simple details are required by the 9th October, 2014, to ensure we have an opportunity to attain your Old Course tee times. Please do not hesitate to c...

"Is the Old Course a must play on this tour?"  If this is a one-off trip the answer will probably be a resounding  YES  and serious thought must now be given on how you get a tee time at this historic golf course. I thought it would be a good idea to write a piece about preparing a golf tour to Scotland and St. Andrews in particular.  The iconic Old Course view There are t ens of thousands of golfers from across the World who have a desire to make a pilgrimage to the Home of Golf and advanced  planning is strongly recommended as this will assist in getting you guaranteed tee times  to golf the legendary Scottish Links especially those of the Old Course in St. Andrews, Muirfield, Royal Troon, Turnberry, Carnoustie and Prestwick. Practice putting green Old Course St. Andrews These great golf courses are the ones that generally appear at the top of the 'must golf' list for those who travel to Scotland and are therefore oversubscrib...

All systems go for the various team members of the Oystercatcher Golf Society...a rag bag of enthusiastic (so-so) golfers that put as much energy into the "socialising society" aspect of meeting twice a year as they do the golf. 2012's first outing begins this coming weekend and the omens are for fair weather, no rain, at the historic links of  www. northberwickgolfclub .com  . Two rounds of classic Scottish links golf has been booked to play, Saturday and Sunday, on the Championship links that is used for Final Qualifying when the Open Championship is held on the great Muirfield links only 5 minutes up the road. A wonderful pedigree and a golf course that I, along with most Scottish golfers, place in their Top 5 golf courses in Scotland. The added bonus this year will be the accommodation that Caddie Golf Tours have managed to secure for the group, and a massive thanks goes to the delightful owner of the 5 Star   www. northberwickgolflodge .co.uk/  , Emma...

The first 2012 golf outing for the OysterCatcher Golf Society will be held over the last weekend in February and the members will be residing in the wonderfully indulgent North Berwick Golf Lodge, www.northberwickgolflodge.co.uk , situated about a 25 minute drive south of Edinburgh. The golfers are booked on the historic West Links at North Berwick over the first couple of days. Two tee times have been arranged for Saturday 25th at 13.09 & 13.18pm and Sunday at 12.33 & 12.42pm. If I may suggest, the second round will allow the participants an opportunity to 'right' the shots lost the previous day. 'Perfection' the Par4 14th green North Berwick West Links The golf course was founded in 1832 and golf has been played over this links ever since. It is regulary used as a Final Qualifying venue when the Open Championship is held at Muirfield and will be again when the Open is played there in 2013. More details and history can be found at http://www.northber...