Golf

Panasonic Solves My Golf Problem

Golf

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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Who Won the Shield 2010

Dornoch

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.

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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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Royal Dornoch Golf Club Visitors Enjoy the Sunshine

Dornoch

Golf visitors pretty much always enjoy a round or two at Royal Dornoch Golf Club in the Scottish Highlands- especially those who usually play at inland courses. Unfortunately the weather isn’t always as good as it was today, but visitors can enjoy it all the more when the wind, rain and terrain all conspire to [...]

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Discount Holiday Golf With Dornoch Firth Golf Pass

Dornoch

Image via Wikipedia Get discount on the cost of your golf this summer’s holiday with a Dornoch Firth Golf Pass. Holiday golf is one of life’s great pleasures. Weekend golf is great, but squeezed in between the working weeks and subject to the demands of the kids schedules and the weather, we rarely get time [...]

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