2014 Causeway Coast Amateur Golf Tournament

The Tullamore Dew Causeway Coast Amateur Golf Tournament is one of the top three highlights in the Northern Ireland sporting calendar and regularly attracts up to 1100 golfers from as far afield as South Africa, Canada, Australia, the USA as well as Europe. CAD $1175 per person based on two sharing!

Royal Colwood Golf Club, Victoria, British Columbia

Certain golf courses engender a a great feeling just making your way to the clubhouse.  Royal Colwood is just such a place, as you enter the property on a small private road which crosses between the 1st green and 2nd tee.  You are immediately taken by the spectacular trees which are a feature of this 98 year…

Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Dornoch, Scotland

If you are a keen golfer it would not be a surprise if you know at least one member of Royal Dornoch. It has a long tradition of attracting overseas members from far flung countries who come for a single visit and who are smitten by a golf course which seems to cast a magic…

Crail Golf Society, Crail, Fife, Scotland

No course could possibly inspire such differing opinions as Crail, located some 20 minutes from St. Andrews on a remote, windswept headland. Organized Golf has been played in the area for at least 225 years, although evidence exists of play at this location from even earlier times.  The 11 gentlemen who formed the Crail Golf Society in 1786…

Kingsbarns Golf Links, St. Andrews, Scotland

It is possible that your correspondent may be the only person you will ever meet who doesn’t rave about Kingsbarns. Let me be clear that it is a superb links course in a location which is beyond delightful. But having had the benefit of playing some of the finest seaside links around the world, the…

Cypress Point Golf Club, Monterey, California

With very few exceptions, it has always been the case that the very great European courses such as Sunningdale, St Andrews, Royal St Georges and Valderrama are accessible to the average golfer, (albeit at some cost) whilst the vast majority of private North American clubs are very much out of bounds unless invited by a…

Pasatiempo Golf Club, Santa Cruz, California

Steeped in golf history , Pasatiempo golf club is perhaps the finest and least known creation of Dr Alister Mackenzie. Built in 1929, the course has recently undergone a significant restoration to take the course back to it’s legendary roots. Many of the tall cypress trees have been removed by bad weather as well as…