Aberdeen & Highlands – Scotland

Aberdeen & Scottish
Highlands

Aberdeen & Scottish Highlands

Once one of Scotland’s best kept secrets for golf, Aberdeen and the Highlands region is now a bucket-list destination for many golf enthusiasts. The region has steadily grown more popular in recent years thanks to feature stories written about historic golf clubs like Royal Aberdeen and Royal Dornoch—the former was founded in 1780 and is the sixth oldest golf club in the world, while the latter is home to a par-4 that Harry Vardon considered “the most natural hole in golf.” In fact, after his round at Royal Dornoch, Tom Watson declared it to be “the most fun I’ve ever had on a golf course.”

SAMPLE ITINERARY

Day

Golf

Hotel

Day One:

Cabot Highlands

Ness Walk Hotel

Day Two:

Royal Dornoch Golf Club

Ness Walk Hotel

Day Three:

Nairn Golf Club

Ness Walk Hotel

Day Four:

Trump International, Aberdeen

Marcliffe Hotel

Day Five:

Cruden Bay Golf Club

Marcliffe Hotel

Day Six:

Royal Aberdeen Golf Club

Marcliffe Hotel

GOLF COURSES IN THIS ITINERARY

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Cabot Highlands

Par 72
6,553 yards
Designed by Gill Hanse

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Royal Dornoch Golf Club

Par 70
6,626 yards
Designed by Old Tom Morris

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Nairn Golf Club

Par 71
6,436 yards
Designed by Old Tom Morris, James Braid, Charles Kenneth Cotton, Martin Hawtree

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Cruden Bay Golf Club

Par 70
6,236 yards
Designed by Old Tom Morris, Archie Simpson, Tom Simpson, Herbert Fowler

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Royal Aberdeen Golf Club

Par 71
6,500 yards
Designed by James Braid, Hawtree Ltd, Donald Steel

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Trump International Golf Links, Scotland

Par 72
6,329 yards
Designed by Martin Hawtree

You can contrast those longstanding holes against younger ones built more recently in the south, after your opening round at Cabot Highlands. The property, home to the Mark Parsinen and Gil Hanse-designed Castle Stuart Golf Links, will expand in 2024 with the scheduled opening of a second course designed by the legendary Tom Doak.

Only 9 miles to the east of Castle Stuart, Nairn Golf Club boasts a history as captivating as the aforementioned royal courses. Stretching to 6,774 yards, Nairn’s championship course, which bears the fingerprints of two of Scotland’s legends—Old Tom Morris and James Braid—most recently hosted the Walker Cup in 1999. But if recent developments are most alluring, a visitor to Aberdeen & the Highlands must play a round at Trump International Golf Links, which boasts a layout created by Dr. Martin Hawtree, a course architect who each year is tasked by the R&A to subtly modify the course that is to host the next Open Championship.

Despite the above-mentioned half dozen golf clubs of superlative standing and quality, a Highlands and Aberdeen golf journey wouldn’t be complete without a visit to Cruden Bay Golf Club. Set along the shores of the North Sea, the course is quirky, playing over undulating terrain and offering views of the medieval castle ruins that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

ACCOMMODATION IN THIS ITINERARY

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Ness Walk Hotel

5 Star Hotel

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Marcliffe Hotel

5 Star Hotel

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Helicopter

The finest chartered choppers in Scotland

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Luxury Coaches

Options from luxury 4 to 36 seaters

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