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Last Competition of the Year

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Open competitions at Royal Dornoch come to an end for the year on the first weekend in September, with the Fraser Gardner trophy competition. This 36 hole medal competition, with 18 holes on the Royal Dornoch Championship course and 18 holes on the Royal Dornoch Struie course is a real tester. Handicaps are limited to [...]

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Panasonic Solves My Golf Problem

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My golf problem finally got solved. It wasn’t what you might think. The problem wasn’t never getting a chance to play, being semi retired with a grown up family there’s plenty of time. It wasn’t money. Where I live golf isn’t expensive. It wasn’t access to a golf course. Our house is 70 yards from [...]

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Views of Brora

Accommodation

Brora is pretty far north, and in Highlands terms also quite big.  At one time most of the coal for this part of the country came into  what was a busy harbour. There were fishing boats too, and some industry. To the south of the town was Hunters factory.  They made the highest quality tweeds [...]

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Who Won the Shield 2010

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Who won the Carnegie Shield Gold Medal at Royal Dornoch Golf Club in 2010? The first winner on the Carnegie Shield honours board in the Club lobby is T.E. Grant. in 1901. The competition wasn’t played during the 2 World Wars but apart from that has been the pinnacle of the club’s competition season ever [...]

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Carnegie Shield Week Prize Giving

Dornoch

At Royal Dornoch Golf Club the golfing season culminates with Carnegie Shield week and that builds up to the prize giving on Saturday afternoon. This is Highlands golf at it’s best. There’s always a good crowd. Both local members and visitors have spent the afternoon on the course watching the three match play finals. Those [...]

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Carnegie Shield Week at Royal Dornoch

Dornoch

Carnegie Shield week – usually the second week in August – is the pinnacle of both golf and tourism calendars at Royal Dornoch. It’s an open competition attracting 300 plus entries every year from far and wide. Much more than a golf tournament, the Shield is an annual celebration of long standing friendships mixed in [...]

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Royal Dornoch Ladies Open Championship

Dornoch

Ladies golf is a big part of the Royal Dornoch Golf Club schedule. Open competitions bring visitors from far and wide, and especially the Ladies Open Championship.  With Joyce Wethered as a past winner the competition has an attraction beyond the fun day out. Not surprising really. This gem of a golf course is at [...]

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Highlands Golf At Its Best

Dornoch

Image via Wikipedia Golf is a pastime of the people in the Highlands and in August it reaches a crescendo with open competitions organised in all four of the courses in East Sutherland and the one just across the bridge. In Fabulous Month of Golf Ahead Robin Wilson of the Northern Times describes the frenzy [...]

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Views of Royal Dornoch Golf Club Course

Dornoch

Royal Dornoch golf course is much more attractive than anybody can describe. Even the best photographs can’t do its splendour full justice. But this slide show does present some of the many sides to the golf course’s magic. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress. Share on Facebook

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Paradise on the 58th Parallel

Beaches

People come to Dornoch from all over the world. It’s Paradise on the 58th Parallel untroubled by the world’s problems. It’s Nirvana for anybody wanting peace and quiet, away from the hassle, the crime, the pollution, the stresses of modern living. Those who know it make their own way here. Flights to Inverness and an [...]

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