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What’s On at Royal Dornoch Golf Club

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What’s On? At Royal Dornoch Golf Club this month these are the events planned. Manager Neil Hampton updates members each month with club news and a list of events planned for the coming weeks. Here’s his list of what’s on at the club this month: Upcoming Competitions & Events Friday 22nd Oct – Annual Prize [...]

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Northern Counties Cup Returns to Royal Dornoch

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The Northern Counties Cup, one of golf’s oldest and most prestigious club competitions returned to Royal Dornoch Golf Club this weekend. The competition is unique for several reasons – locations, format and history. The full story was explained to me by Denis Bethune – President of Royal Dornoch Golf Club, shown here in the clubhouse [...]

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These Golfers Must Be Mad

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The weather in Dornoch isn’t always perfect for golf. That may be hard to believe but sometimes there are things we’d rather do -like work. The Highlands weather can be changeable – you may have heard the expression “all four seasons in the same day” – but there are days when we’re stuck with what [...]

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A Sky You’ll Never Tire of Looking At

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The sky at Dornoch is worth a special visit. Even for the Scottish Highlands it’s unusual – a sky you’ll never tire of looking at. But what does that mean? Surely any sky is just the sky, – Right? Well not quite, and this slide show video shows why. We used to live in the [...]

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Lower Links Nature’s Treasurers

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If Natural History captures your interest the Scottish Highlands offers plenty of material to keep you engaged for months. It’s something to do with the geology, the climate and relative lack of people, I guess. Natural history isn’t something I’ve ever studied but I do know several who have, and for them the Lower Links [...]

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Witches Not Welcome Here

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The last witch burned at the stake met her unfortunate end in Dornoch. Or that’s the story around here at least. It seems the Scottish Highlands was the last area to ban the practice of accusing people of witchcraft, and then killing them in the most unfortunate way. Despite the strong influence of christianity it [...]

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Discovering Dornoch Bowling Club

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Lawn Bowling is a popular pastime all over the UK, especially with seniors, but also with the young. It’s firmly rooted in our history, with the story of Sir Francis Drake, one of England’s biggest heroes, insisting on finishing his game of bowls before sailing out to destroy King Philips Armada and save the country [...]

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Discovering Dornoch HistoryLinks

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Dornoch History Links heritage centre enjoys VisitScotland 5 Star Museum status, and quite rightly, as you’ll see in the video. The displays present stories covering nearly 2000 years of history in a way that’s both accessible and entertaining, for all ages. Not an easy thing to do, as most museums manage to prove. Throughout the [...]

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Dornoch’s Big Sky

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Dornoch is known in the Scottish Highlands as the place with the Big Sky. Quite why I’m not sure. It must be something to do with the fact we’re inland, at least by a bit and not directly on the North Sea Coast. And also we’re far enough away from the hills for them to [...]

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Discovering KiteSurfing on Dornoch Beach

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Kitesurfing is at its best on Dornoch Beach, in the Highlands of Scotland. At least, according to the young man I spoke to about it yesterday. The combination of minimal waves, shallow water and huge expanse of sand work well for novices and experts alike. A major advantage is the huge expanse of water in [...]

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