Custom Tour: North and East Scotland
Scotland is the home of golf, and this tour will let you play some of the most renowned courses in the region, from the must-play seaside links of Kingsbarns, to the delightfully challenging layout of Royal Aberdeen, to the granddaddy of them all, the Old Course at St. Andrews. For more information or to book this tour, contact us directly at 1-800-550-4162.
Day 1
Arrival/Castle Stuart
Your driver will meet you at the Edinburgh airport. Once the introductions are over we board the touring vehicle and make our way to Inverness.
Today’s Golf: Castle Stewart. This championship links course overlooking the Moray Firth and well-known landmarks is a venue for the Barclays Scottish Open, and owned by the same folks behind Kingsbarns.
Your Accommodation: Culloden House, Inverness
Today’s Golf: The Nairn Golf Club's truly remarkable feature is that from every hole you can see the Moray Firth and the golden colouring and changing lights of the Black Isle. Even more extraordinary - only too easily you can strike the ball into the sea on every one of the first seven.
Your Accommodation: Culloden House, Inverness
Today’s Golf: Royal Dornoch is spellbinding and many golfers from all over the world make the pilgrimage to this natural links at some point in their lives. It's wild, isolated and, at the same time, beautiful; there's the blaze of colour in early summer when the gorse is in flower.
Accomodation: Culloden House, Inverness
Day 4
Cruden Bay Golf Club
Today’s Golf: This links golf course creates unique challenges demanding the skills of power, placement and fine judgement upon the discerning golfer. Set against a backdrop of subtly contoured greens and magnificent panoramic views, our course truly justifies its position as 83rd best course in the world according to US publication Golf Magazine. A visit to Cruden Bay will be a most memorable one.
Your Accommodation: Culloden House, Inverness
Day 5
Royal Aberdeen Golf Club
Today’s Golf: Royal Aberdeen is one of the truest linkslands layouts in golf. It's a course to test the better golfer, one who can accommodate the many variable conditions this arduous links can throw at you. Royal Aberdeen's front nine holes rank amongst the very best in the world. No two are the same within a natural ecosystem, interspersed with rich turf and tight rolling fairways, that is a sheer delight to behold.
Your Accommodation: Malmaison, Aberdeen
Day 6
Trump International Golf Links
Today’s Golf: All 18 holes on the Trump International Golf Links thread their way engagingly through the dunes, rising to find views of the sea and coastline, plunging into secluded valleys, offering a sequence of superlative topography, landscape, alternating spaciousness and enclosure, panoramic views, a rich texture of vegetation and wildlife habitats surrounding the golf holes.
Your Accommodation: Malmaison, Aberdeen
Day 7
The Castle Course at St. Andrews
Today’s Golf: The Castle Course is the seventh course at the Home of Golf. Set on a rugged cliffline overlooking the ancient town of St Andrews, the course combines breathtaking views with a memorable golfing challenge.
Your Accommodation: Rusacks Hotel, St. Andrews
Day 8
The Old Course at St. Andrews
Today’s Golf: The Old Course is the Home of Golf where golf was first played 600 years ago. It remains a real test of golf for today's champions. The fabled original links course is synonymous with The Open Championship which it has hosted more times than any other venue and hosted for a 28th time in 2010. Despite its reputation and status, it is a public course.
Your Accommodation: Rusacks Hotel, St. Andrews
Day 9
Kingsbarns Golf Links
Today’s Golf: Located just seven miles south-east of St Andrews, Kingsbarns is a must-play seaside links course which regularly features in top 100 golf courses rankings in the world. At 7,181 yards from the championship tees, Kingsbarns is a formidable enough test to be included in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship rota each autumn alongside the Old Course, St. Andrews and Carnoustie Golf Links.
Your Accommodation: Rusacks Hotel, St. Andrews
Depart from Edinburgh. An airport transfer will be arranged.
topAccommodations
Culloden House, Inverness
Nights 1-3
More than two centuries ago Bonnie Prince Charlie used Culloden House as his lodging and battle headquarters prior to that fateful battle on Culloden Moor. Today, this handsome Inverness luxury hotel stands in nearly 40 acres where you are free to wander about the woodland and private gardens to enjoy the exceptional peace, tranquility and majesty of the grounds.
Malmaison, Aberdeen
Nights 4-6
Malmaison Aberdeen is a stunning luxury hotel with sumptuous rooms, a sophisticated brasserie, a diverse spa and endless exquisite designs, style and flair.Formerly the Queen's Hotel, the boutique Malmaison Aberdeen is part new-build, part original façade. Other special features include the gym and the wine-tasting cellar.
Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa
Days 7-9
The Macdonald Rusacks Hotel is within a sand wedge of the 18th hole of the famous Old Course. Stylishly remodelled on a golfing theme, Macdonald Rusacks Hotel offers luxurious accommodation occupied by some of the great names in the game’s history. Magnificent views out to sea take in St Andrews’ West Sands, immortalised in the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire. Unquestionably Scotland’s greatest golfing hotel.
